Lecture Notes in Cosmology

Abstract

The first version of these lecture notes is based on the hand-written notes I prepared for the cosmology course taught to graduate students of PPGFis and PPGCosmo at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), starting in 2014. The course covers topics ranging from the evidence for the expanding universe to the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The notes are also available on my personal webpage (https://www.oliverfpiattella.eu) and have been published by Springer. The second version extends and updates the material presented in the first version, and typographical errors and mistakes have also been corrected.

12 Chapters, 366 pages, 57 figures. v2: extended, updated and corrected version

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• Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
• Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae
• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
• Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
• GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• Where are the missing galactic satellites?
• Quintessence, Cosmic Coincidence, and the Cosmological Constant
• A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter
• Observational evidence for self-interacting cold dark matter
• Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples
• Planck 2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results
• Small-Scale Challenges to the $\Lambda$CDM Paradigm
• Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes
• A History of Dark Matter
• A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
• Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmological Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask)
• A new approach to the evolution of cosmological perturbations on large scales
• Warm Dark Matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: new constraints from high redshift Lyman-alpha forest data
• Precision Determination of the Mass Function of Dark Matter Halos
• The Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS) I: Overview
• The haloes of bright satellite galaxies in a warm dark matter universe
• The evolution of CMB spectral distortions in the early Universe
• The Best Inflationary Models After Planck
• The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum
• Distance measures in cosmology
• Cores in warm dark matter haloes: a Catch 22 problem
• Current status of direct dark matter detection experiments
• Central Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies
• Dwarf galaxies in CDM and SIDM with baryons: observational probes of the nature of dark matter
• What mass are the smallest protohalos?
• The General Primordial Cosmic Perturbation
• Tension between the power spectrum of density perturbations measured on large and small scales
• The dynamics of isolated Local Group galaxies
• Cosmic variance and the measurement of the local Hubble parameter
• The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications of the Fourier space wedges of the final sample
• COrE (Cosmic Origins Explorer) A White Paper
• SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
• Gauge-invariant analysis of perturbations in Chaplygin gas unified models of dark matter and dark energy
• Warm dark matter does not do better than cold dark matter in solving small-scale inconsistencies
• Testing the Copernican principle by constraining spatial homogeneity
• Towards a measurement of the spectral runnings
• CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Gravitational Lensing
• CMB-slow, or How to Estimate Cosmological Parameters by Hand
• Observable Deviations from Homogeneity in an Inhomogeneous Universe
• Strongly Coupled Dark Energy Cosmologies: preserving LCDM success and easing low scale problems II - Cosmological simulations
• Dark matter velocity dispersion effects on CMB and matter power spectra
• Some Clarifications on the Duration of Inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology
• Redshift drift of gravitational lensing
• An information theory based search for homogeneity on the largest accessible scale
• A No-Truncation Approach to Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
• Lyth Bound, eternal inflation and future cosmological missions
• Sub-horizon evolution of cold dark matter perturbations through dark matter-dark energy equivalence epoch
• Cosmological constraints on the radiation released during structure formation
• Cosmology and stellar equilibrium using Newtonian hydrodynamics with general relativistic pressure
• Distinguishing between inflationary models from cosmic microwave background
• Neo-Newtonian cosmology: An intermediate step towards General Relativity
• Comment on "The Real Problem with MOND" by Scott Dodelson, arXiv:1112.1320

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• Evolution of the $f{\sigma }_8$ tension with the Planck15/$\Lambda$CDM determination and implications for modified gravity theories
• Cosmological Perturbation Theory in $f(Q,T)$ Gravity
• Slow-roll inflation in f(R,T) gravity and a modified Starobinsky-like inflationary model
• Dark degeneracy I: Dynamical or interacting dark energy?
• Hints of Modified Gravity in Cosmos and in the Lab?
• Cosmological perturbations in the Tsallis holographic dark energy scenarios
• An introduction to the relativistic kinetic theory on curved spacetimes
• Baryon acoustic oscillations signature in the three-point angular correlation function from the SDSS-DR12 quasar survey
• Constraints on $f(Q)$ logarithmic model using gravitational wave standard sirens
• Dynamical analysis of the covarying coupling constants in scalar-tensor gravity
• Quintessential Inflation with Dynamical Higgs Generation as an Affine Gravity
• Inflation in f(R,T) gravity with Double-Well potential
• Boltzmann hierarchies for self-interacting warm dark matter scenarios
• Observational constraints in Delta Gravity: CMB and supernovas
• Probing the physical properties of the intergalactic medium using gamma-ray bursts
• The Hubble Rate Trouble: An Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter
• Oscillations of sterile neutrinos from dark matter decay eliminates the IceCube-Fermi tension
• Scalar induced gravitational waves review
• Analysis of the cosmological evolution parameters, energy conditions, and linear matter perturbations of an exponential-type model in $f(Q)$ gravity
• Probing the physical properties of the intergalactic medium using blazars
• Hubble tension and matter inhomogeneities: a theoretical perspective
• Non-Gaussian Effects of the Saha's Ionization in the Early Universe
• An Accelerating Universe without Lambda: Delta~Gravity Using Monte Carlo
• Quantum field corrections to the equation of state of freely streaming matter in the Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker space-time
• Second-order corrections to Starobinsky inflation
• Using Neutrino Oscillations to Measure $H_0$
• Pytearcat: PYthon TEnsor AlgebRa calCulATor
• Distortions of Robertson-Walker metric in perturbative cosmology and interpretation as dark matter and cosmological constant
• Gravitational wave induced baryon acoustic oscillations
• Re-evaluation of ${\Omega }_k$ of the normalised Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker model: Implications for Hubble constant determinations
• Chiral gravitational waves from thermalized neutrinos in the early Universe
• Asymptotically Schwarzschild solutions in $f(R)$ extension of general relativity
• Z-Sequence: Photometric redshift predictions for galaxy clusters with sequential random k-nearest neighbours
• Fake dark matter from retarded distortions
• Axion-Photon Conversion In Magnetized Universe: Impact On The Global 21-cm Signal
• $f(R)$ gravity with broken Weyl gauge symmetry, cosmological backreaction, and its effects on CMB anisotropy
• Production of Primordial Gravitational Waves in Teleparallel Gravity
• A unique equation of state for the universe evolution from AdS${}_5$ space-time
• Large scale structures: from inflation to today: a brief report
• Inflationary models in a minimally coupled $f(R,T)$ gravity: Constraints from $Planck$, BICEP/$Keck$, and ACT