TASI Lectures on Cosmic Acceleration
arXiv:1003.4468
Abstract
In this series of lectures we review observational evidence for, and theoretical investigations into, cosmic acceleration and dark energy. The notes are in four sections. First I review the basic cosmological formalism to describe the expansion history of the universe and how distance measures are defined. The second section covers the evidence for cosmic acceleration from cosmic distance measurements. Section 3 discusses the theoretical avenues being considered to explain the cosmological observations and section 4 discusses how the growth of inhomogeneities and large scale structure observations might help us pin down the theoretical origin of cosmic acceleration.
Lectures from the 2009 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute at Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (36 pages, 5 figures)
References in corpus (16)
- Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
- Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
- Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets
- The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory
- The Large Scale Structure of f(R) Gravity
- CfA3: 185 Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the CfA
- A Parameterized Post-Friedmann Framework for Modified Gravity
- Measuring the dark side (with weak lensing)
- A discriminating probe of gravity at cosmological scales
- Approaches to Understanding Cosmic Acceleration
- COSMOS: 3D weak lensing and the growth of structure
- Stability of Cosmological Solution in f(R) Models of Gravity
- On the Growth of Perturbations as a Test of Dark Energy
- Challenges to the DGP Model from Horizon-Scale Growth and Geometry
- Consistency test of general relativity from large scale structure of the Universe
- Testing the DGP model with ESSENCE