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Tables of Contents for The Primordial Universe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Lecturers
xi
Participants
xiii
Preface
xvii
Preface
xxi
Contents
xxv
The Universe at High Redshift
1
60
S. Lilly
Introduction
5
3
The formation of structure in the Universe
5
1
Methodologies, opportunities and limitations
6
1
Outline of the lectures
7
1
The present-day Universe
8
8
Galaxies
8
1
Normal galaxies
8
2
Galaxy scaling relations
10
1
Low surface brightness galaxies
11
1
Dwarf galaxies
12
1
Active galactic nuclei
13
1
Ultra-luminous galaxies
13
1
The luminosity function and the luminosity density and extragalactic background light
13
2
The baryon budget
15
1
The theoretical framework. I: Cosmology
16
6
The Robertson-Walker metric and the appearance of distant objects
16
1
R(τ) and the solutions to the Friedmann equation
17
2
Cosmological parameters and uncertainties
19
1
The development of density fluctuations
19
1
Linear growth
19
1
Fluctuations in baryonic matter and radiation
20
1
Modification of the primordial spectrum
20
2
The theoretical framework. II: The non-linear regime
22
9
Non-linear collapse
22
1
Hierarchical clustering and dissipation models
22
3
The Press-Schechter formalism
25
1
Biassed galaxy formation
26
1
Origin of angular momentum
26
1
The Structure of dark matter haloes
27
1
Feed-back processes
27
1
Chemical evolution
28
2
Galaxy spectral synthesis models
30
1
Semi-analytic models
31
1
The formation and evolution of galaxies: The local view
31
3
Star formation in disk galaxies and starbursts
31
1
Spheroids and the elliptical galaxies
32
1
Ultra-luminous galaxies
33
1
Evolution at cosmologically significant redshifts
34
9
Redshifts z > 1
34
1
Methodologies
34
1
The evolving population of galaxies
34
1
The early-type galaxy population
35
2
The importance or otherwise of mergers
37
1
The evolution of galaxies in rich clusters
37
1
Inside the galaxies
38
1
Redshifts z > 3
38
1
Detection and identification
38
1
Luminosity function and properties
39
2
Clustering and biassing
41
1
The nature of the Lyman-break population
42
1
The observational ``gap'' at z = 2
42
1
The luminosity density as f(z)
43
2
The cosmic evolution of active galactic nuclei
45
1
Luminous objects at high redshifts: The hidden Universe
45
2
Neutral gas
47
2
Re-ionization of the IGM
47
1
High column density systems
48
1
The Lyman α forest systems
49
1
Global evolution of the netural Hydrogen content
49
1
The first stars
49
3
Summary
52
9
Cosmological Parameters and Galaxy Formation
61
26
J. Silk
Introduction
63
2
Temperature
65
1
Age
65
1
Hubble's constant
65
1
Baryon density parameter
66
1
Matter density parameter
67
1
Cosmological constant
68
1
Spatial curvature
69
1
Density fluctuations
70
4
Ab initio galaxy formation
74
1
Cold dark matter: Where we are today
75
2
Resolving the CDM conundrum
77
1
An empirical approach to disk star formation
78
3
Testing models of galaxy formation
81
2
Summary
83
4
A Short Course on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
87
16
K. A. Olive
Introduction
89
1
Theory
90
1
Data
90
3
Likelihood analyses
93
2
More data
95
1
More analysis
96
1
Chemical evolution
96
1
Constraints from BBN
97
6
The Cosmic Microwave Background: From Detector Signals to Constraints on the Early Universe Physics
103
105
F.R. Bouchet
J.-L. Puget
J.M. Lamarre
Introduction
107
1
The Cosmic background
108
10
Components of the cosmic background
108
4
Formation of the CMB, recombination
112
1
The CMB spectrum
112
6
CMB anisotropies
118
11
Primary anisotropies
118
1
Fundamental physics and CMB anisotropies
118
1
The components of the primary fluctuations
119
1
Power spectrum of the fluctuations in an inflationary model
119
2
The secondary CMB anisotropies
121
1
Gravitational effects
122
3
Effects of the reionisation
125
4
Astrophysical foregrounds
129
25
Physics of galactic foregrounds
129
1
Dust emission
129
5
Free-free emission
134
2
Synchrotron emission
136
2
Physics of the extragalactic sources foregrounds
138
1
Infrared galaxies and radio sources
138
8
Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
146
3
Putting it all together
149
1
A simple sky model
149
3
Detector noise ``backgrounds''
152
1
Comparing contributions
153
1
Observations of CMB anisotropies
154
22
From raw data to the physics of the early Universe
154
2
Observational requirements
156
3
Reaching the ultimate sensitivity
159
3
Present status of observations
162
1
Future satellite observations: MAP, Planck
163
2
Description of the Planck High-Frequency Instrument
165
1
Instrument concept
165
2
Sensitivity
167
2
Focal plane optics
169
4
Bolometric detectors
173
3
Extraction of systematic effects and map making
176
14
Maximum likelihood estimators
176
2
Using noise properties
178
1
Systematics
179
1
Priors
179
1
Map making
180
1
``COBE'' map making
181
2
Signal-to-noise (Wiener) filtering
183
1
Using redundancies
184
2
Low-frequency noise
186
1
Simplest destriping
187
1
Contributions from emission in the far side-lobes of the beam
187
3
Maps analysis methods
190
17
Methods of component separation
190
2
Final map accuracy achievable
192
4
Numerical simulations
196
1
Simulations of the observations
197
1
Analysing simulated observations
198
4
Joining ends
202
1
Power spectrum estimation
202
2
Constraints on models
204
3
Conclusions
207
1
Appendix
208