Course Name: Frontiers in Astrophysics
September 29, 2020
Level: Undergraduate
Pre-requisite: Advanced mathematics, undergrad physics
Lecture Time: 2 sessions (45 minutes per session)
Course Description: This is a mini-course on cosmology, as a part of the “Frontiers in Astrophysics” course at Tsinghua. It covers the frontier of modern cosmology, including dark energy, modified gravity, key cosmological probes including BAO (standard ruler) and RSD, CMB, supernovae (standard candle), gravitational waves (standard siren).
Recommended text books:
Cosmological Physics (John A. Peacock)
Modern Cosmology (Scott Dodelson & Fabian Schmidt)
Reference papers/links:
BAO
http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/bao/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1074
RSD
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2011.0370
Dark energy review
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01091
Modified gravity review
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04623
Latest eBOSS DR16 analysis:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08991
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09011