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Cosmology II - NAST039

Title:	Kosmologie II
Guaranteed by:	Astronomical Institute of Charles University (32-AUUK)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2015 to 2016
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	4
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	doc. RNDr. Attila Mészáros, DrSc. RNDr. Jaroslav Haas, Ph.D.
Classification:	Physics > Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Annotation -

Last update: prof. RNDr. David Vokrouhlický, DrSc. (07.06.2019)

Second semester of a course of cosmology. Cosmological epochs; physics of the early universe; theory of galaxy formation; cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy; very early universe; open questions of the current cosmology. Designated primarily for master and Ph.D. students of astronomy and astrophysics, theoretical physics and particle and nuclear physics. Knowledge of the general theory of relativity at the level of NTMF111 course is assumed. Emphasis is put on the cosmological aspects of the astronomical observations.

Literature -

Last update: RNDr. Jaroslav Haas, Ph.D. (14.01.2019)

P. J. E. Peebles (1993). Principles of Physical Cosmology. Princeton University

Press.

Ya. B. Zeldovich, I. D. Novikov (1971). Relativistic Astrophysics, 2:

The Structure and Evolution of the Universe. University of Chicago Press.

Teaching methods - Czech

Last update: RNDr. Jaroslav Haas, Ph.D. (14.01.2019)

Prednaska.

Syllabus -

Last update: RNDr. Jaroslav Haas, Ph.D. (14.01.2019)

Cosmological epochs

Mean density of matter and radiation; dark and radiating matter;

radiation-dominated era and matter-dominated era; recombination.

Physics of the early universe

Importance of the cosmic microwave background radiation; hot universe and

entropy; neutrinos; importance of the neutron-to-proton ratio; thermal history

of the early universe; nucleosynthesis and synthesis of helium; importance

of deuterium; first three minutes.

Theory of galaxy formation

Jeans theory; adiabatic and entropic perturbations; Bonnor theory; role of the

dark matter; mass of neutrinos; comparison with the observational data.

Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy

Basic observational data; dipole anisotropy; Sachs-Wolfe effect;

Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect; relation of the cosmic microwave background radiation

and the special theory of relativity.

Very early universe

Planck epoch; origin of the matter-anti-matter antisymmetry; anihilation and

creation; inflationary universe; observational tests of the theory

of inflation.

Open questions of the current cosmology

Nature of the dark matter; accelerated expansion of the universe;

super-horizontal distances; future of the universe; big bang; validity of the

cosmological principle; alternative models of the universe; alternative

theories of gravity; quantum gravity.