Ay 127 -Cosmology and Galaxy Formation

E.S. Phinney

Cosmology; extragalactic distance determinations; relativistic cosmological models; galaxy formation and clustering; thermal history of the universe; microwave background; nucleosynthesis; cosmological tests.

Texts: Dodelson, Coles & Lucchin . Dodelson errata.

• Course syllabus and rules, text books.
• The May 9 lecture was at 9:00AM.
• Homework sets (pdf):
  1. Problem Set 1. Due in class Friday 6 April 2007.
  2. Problem Set 2. Due in class Friday 13 April 2007.
  3. Problem Set 3. Due in class Friday 20 April 2007. Note: as announced in class 4/18/07, you now only have to do problem 1, plus your choice of any three of problems 2-5.
  4. Problem Set 4. Due in class Friday 27 April 2007.
  5. Problem Set 5. Due in class Friday 4 May 2007.
  6. Problem Set 6. Due in class Friday 11 May 2007. Note: new version with numbers `unrounded' posted 5/8/2007.
  7. Problem Set 7. Due in class Friday 18 May 2007.
  8. Problem Set 8. Due in class Friday 25 May 2007.
• Homework solutions (pdf)
  1. Solution to PS 1 (revised 4/11/07 to fix subscripts in solution to 3a).
  2. Solution to PS 2
  3. Solution to PS 3 (typo in soln to problem 2 fixed 4/23/07)
  4. Solution to PS 4
  5. Solution to PS 5
  6. Solution to PS 6
  7. Solution to PS 7
  8. Solution to PS 8
• The final exam was handed out in class on May 25. It is due by 5pm Thursday May 31, 2007. See Sterl if you did not get a copy.

Last Update: 25 May 2007