Cosmology is one of the most active research areas within modern physics and astronomy.
Topics of the course in Observational Cosmology include:
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How supernovae can be used as cosmological lighthouses to measure the
accelerated expansion of the Universe caused by dark energy.
- How
elemental abundances observed today can be used to constrain physics
right after the Big Bang, at energy scales inaccessible in labs at
earth.
- What dynamics of moving astronomical objects tell us about the presence of dark matter.
- How the structure we observe around us developed from primordial quantum fields.
We will also review theory, based in General Relativity, that allows us to measure the Universe at large scale.
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Jakob Nordin
Semester: WiSe 2022/23