In General > s.a. astronomy [observation
methods]; astrophysics; cosmological
models [model selection]; modern cosmology.
* Observational missions:
1989, COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer), launched; 1992, First
anisotropy reported by COBE; 2001, WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe), launched; ESA's
Planck, to be launched in 2008.
@ Books: Bothun 98 [III].
@ Reviews: Baryshev et al ViA(94)ap/95;
Bahcall ap/95-in;
Bernardeau ap/98-ln;
Lahav ap/98-in
[galaxy surveys]; Peebles ap/98-in, ap/99-in, ap/01-in;
Turner ap/98-in, & Tyson RMP(99)ap;
Krauss ap/01-in;
Balbi ap/01-in;
Lineweaver ap/01-in;
Sarkar hp/02-in;
Tegmark Nat(02)jan, LNP(04)ap/02;
Peebles ap/02-in;
Reid et al ap/02;
Melchiorri RNC(03)
[precision cosmology]; Ostriker & Souradeep Pra(04)ap;
Peacock et al ap/06-rp
[ESA-ESO report]; Baryshev et al a0809-in
["practical cosmology"].
@ Status: Disney GRG(00)ap;
Opher ap/03-in;
Peebles ap/03-in
[open problems]; Sanders ap/04-in;
Starkman et al MNRAS-a0909 [and
future].
@ Theory: Davis ap/04-PhD
[redshifts, horizons].
> Related topics: see acceleration; cosmological
constant; expansion; geometry.
Age of the Universe
* History: The first
estimates were based on the Sun's lifetime, but the oldest globular clusters
are 13.5
2
Gyr old.
* Methods: Cosmochronology
of long-lived radioactive nuclei; Stellar modelling and population synthesis
of the oldest stellar populations; Precision
cosmology with mapping of the acoustic peaks in the cmb.
* 2000: t0
13
Gyr.
* 2003: t0 = 13.2 (+3.6–2.0) Gyr (1-
),
or 14.0
0.5 Gyr [cmb].
* 2003:
11.2 < t0< 20
Gyr, t0 = 14.1+1.0–0.9 Gyr
from WMAP+SDSS+SNIa.
* 2006: Accepted value
13.7 Gyr; Results based on measurement of Triangulum galaxy distance indicate
a value 15% higher.
@ References: Hendry & Tayler CP(96);
Jiménez ap/97-ln, ap/98-in
[and
];
Chaboyer PRP(98)ap;
Lineweaver Sci(99)ap;
Gribbin 00; Ferreras et al MNRAS(01)ap;
Tonry et
al ap/01-in;
Lahav ap/01-in
[cmb and 2dF]; Knox et al ApJ(01)ap [from
cmb]; Krauss & Chaboyer
Sci(03)jan
[from globular clusters]; Lima a0708 [expression
in terms of average deceleration].
Cosmological Parameters > s.a. cmb; cosmology [theory];
relativistic cosmology [averaging]; matter
content [including
distribution].
* Idea: The main tools to obtain estimates are measurements of the
microwave background, supernovae, and galaxy clusters (distribution, lensing,
X-rays,
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect).
@ General references: Freedman ap/97-in;
Carlberg ap/98-in;
Tegmark et al ap/98/ApJL;
Noyes gq/99;
Roos & Harun-or-Rashid ap/99-in;
Turner ap/99-in;
Freedman ap/99-in, ap/99-in;
Primack ap/99-in, ap/00-in;
Novosyadlyj et al A&A-ap/99,
ap/00-in;
Fukugita ap/00-in;
Durrer & Novosyadlyj MNRAS(01)ap/00;
Peebles
ap/00-in;
Krauss ap/01-in;
Leach et al PRD(02)ap [and
inflation]; Freedman IJMPA(02)ap-in;
Deustua et al ap/02-in;
Roos & Harun-or-Rashid
ap/02;
Shemi-Zadeh gq/02 [??];
Krauss ap/03-in;
Blanchard ap/03-in;
Bridle et al Nat(03)ap [open
issues]; Douspis CRP(03)ap/04 [method];
Lahav & Liddle ap/04-in
[rev]; Roos ap/05 [consensus];
Wilczek hp/05-in
[reasoning]; Lahav & Liddle JPG(06)ap;
Balbi PoS-ap/06;
Sánchez et al ap/06-in
[rev]; Apunevych et al a0802 [WMAP2006];
Wraith et al PRD(09)
[adaptive importance sampling].
@ Models and parameter sets: Liddle MNRAS(04)ap;
Godlowski
& Szydlowski PLB(05)
[with dark energy]; Hajian PRD(07)
[Hamiltonian Monte Carlo technique]; Eifler et al a0810 [and
cosmic shear]; Liddle ARNPS-a0903 [statistical
methods]; Dinculescu ASS-a0907 [tentative
derivation].
@ And cmb: Jungman et al PRD(96);
Hancock et al MNRAS-ap/97;
Bartlett et al ap/98-in;
Efstathiou
ap/00;
Tegmark & Zaldarriaga
ApJ(00)ap;
de Bernardis et al Nat(00)ap;
Lange et al PRD(01)ap/00 [Boomerang];
Christensen et al CQG(01)
[Bayesian]; Cornish PRD(01)
[acoustic peak]; Douspis et al A&A(01)ap;
Sakellariadou ap/01-in;
Melchiorri ap/02-in;
Kosowsky et al PRD(02)ap;
Wang et al PRD(02)ap [consistency];
Rubiño-Martin
et al MNRAS(03)ap/02 [from
VSA]; Percival et al MNRAS(02)ap [+2dF];
Contaldi & CBI ap/02-in;
Melchiorri & Ödman PRD(03)ap [pre-WMAP];
Contaldi et al PRL(03)ap [and
lensing]; Lineweaver ap/03-ln
[and inflation]; Bouchet ap/04-in;
Rebolo et al MNRAS(04)ap [VSA
data]; Komatsu et al ApJS(09)-a0803,
Dunkley et al ApJS(09)-a0803,
Lewis PRD(08)
[WMAP 5-year results].
@ And cmb, including polarization: Jiménez et al PRD(04);
QUaD collaboration ApJ(09)-a0901.
@ And cmb, WMAP: Lewis ap/03-in
[questioning models for WMAP]; Hansen et al ap/04/MNRAS.
@ And cmb, theory: Komatsu & Seljak MNRAS(02)ap [Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
effect]; Perotto et al JCAP(06)ap/06 [Monte
Carlo simulations].
@ And HI clouds / 21-cm background: Mao et al PRD(08)-a0802;
Bharadwaj et al PRD(09)-a0809;
Visbal et al JCAP(09)-a0812;
> s.a. astronomy.
@ From galaxy surveys: Tegmark PRL(97);
Peel & Knox ap/02-in
[peculiar neutrinos];
Tegmark et al PRD(04)ap/03 [SDSS];
Pope et al ApJ(04)ap [SDSS];
Del Popolo & Ercan
ap/04-in
[theory]; Gaztañaga et al MNRAS(06)ap/04
[and cmb]; Seljak et al PRD(05)ap/04
[and SN, WMAP, Ly-
];
Reboul & Cordoni ap/06 [interacting
galaxies]; Tozzi LNP(07)ap/06;
Xanthopoulos et al ap/06-in
[VLA]; Blake et al MNRAS-ap/06
[SDSS]; Sánchez & Cole MNRAS(08)-a0708
[power spectrum difference between 2dFGRS and SDSS]; Betancort-Rijo et al a0901/MNRAS
[statistics of voids]; Sánchez et al a0901-MNRAS.
@ From supernovas: Nesseris & Perivolaropoulos PRD(04)ap [models];
Odman et al IJMPD(04)ap;
Wang & Dai MNRAS(06)ap/05
[and GRBs]; Neill et al ApJL-a0704,
Gordon et al PRL(07)
[using supernova peculiar velocities]; Kowalski et al ApJ(08)-a0804;
Kessler et al ApJS-a0908 [SDSS-II];
Kirshner a0910-in.
@ From other: Bagla et al CA(96)ap/95 [matter];
Cutler & Holz a0906/PRD
[gravitational waves, BBO]; Coe & Moustakas ApJ(09)-a0906
[lensing delays]; Behera & Wagner a0908-in
[EBL attenuation of VHE spectra].
@ And smoothing: Buchert & Carfora CQG(02)gq, PRL(03)gq/02 [dressed
parameters].
@ Chemistry: Cen & Ostriker ApJL(99)ap
[evolution]; > s.a. early-universe cosmology [nucleosynthesis].
Other Concepts and Effects > s.a. early
universe;
light [propagation, transparency]; monopole; topological
defects; variation of constants.
@ Birefringence: Nodland & Ralston PRL(97)ap +
PRL(97)ap + ap/97/PRL,
Eisenstein & Bunn
PRL(97)ap,
Leahy ap/97/PRL;
Wardle et al PRL(97); Loredo et al PRD(97); Jain & Ralston
MPLA(99).
@ Other polarization effects: Ralston et al PRL(98) [Faraday rotation].
@ Parallax: Fontanini et al a0905 [for test galaxies, and cosmological models].
@ Homogeneity, local void: García-Bellido & Haugboelle a0807/JCAP
[bounds], JCAP(09)-a0810 [proposed
test]; Lavaux & Wandelt a0906/MNRAS
[void-finding technique].
@ And small-scale physics: Niemeyer PRD(02)ap
[curvature perturbations]; Freedman & Turner
RMP(03); > s.a. black-hole
types [primordial], inflation, quantum-gravity
phenomenology.
@ Rotation: Kogut et al PRD(97)ap [from
COBE maps]; Kühne MPLA(97)ap [and
galaxy rotation axes]; Godlowski et al GRG(03)ap/04 [L of
celestial bodies].
@ Equation of state: Visser CQG(04)gq/03 [and
jerk]; Takahashi & Nakamura PTP(05)ap/04 [from
gravitational waves]; > s.a. dark energy.
@ Epoch of reionization: Bowman et al ApJ(07)ap/05,
McQuinn et al ApJ(06)ap/05 [21
cm].
@ Techniques: Lombardi A&A(02)ap [interpolation,
smoothing]; Van Waerbeke a0906/MNRAS
[cosmic shear and magnification as probes].
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