Physical Cosmology

Physical Cosmology

Prof. Wolfgang Hillebrandt

Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1 D-85748 Garching, Germany

Lecture at the TU München Winter Semester 2011/2012

( http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/lectures/PhysCos_WS11)

Table of Contents

1. Phenomenological Cosmology (distribution of energy and matter; cosmic evolution)

2. Relativistic Cosmology (cosmological theory and models)

3. Classical Tests (background radiation; cosmological parameters; primordial nucleosynthesis)

4. The Early Universe (development of asymmetries; inflation)

5. Structure Formation and Evolution of Galaxies

Literature

Introductory

A.Liddle: "An Introduction to Modern Cosmology", 2nd ed., Wiley 2004

Bergström & Goobar: "Cosmology and Particle Physics", 2nd ed., Springer 2004

S. Weinberg: "Cosmology", Oxford University Press 2008

"Classical" Text Books

J.Peacock: "Cosmological Physics", Cambridge Univ. Press 1999

P.J.E.Peebles: "Principles of Physical Cosmology", Princeton Univ. Press 1993

General Relativity and Cosmology

S.Weinberg: "Gravitation and Cosmology", Wiley 1972

S.Carroll: "Spacetime and Geometry", Addison Wesley 2004

Early Universe

Kolb & Turner: "The Early Universe", Addison Wesley 1990

Wolfgang Hillebrandt / wfh at mpa-garching.mpg.de/26. October 2011