The physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background and ESA's new satellite
mission
Are you ready for Planck?
Fr 12:00-14:00, P1-01-306
Beginn: Fr, 18. April!
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Hiller und Prof. Dr. Heinrich Päs
Beginn: Fr, 18.4. 12:00
Program
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25.4. O. Micu:
Basics of Cosmology
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16.5. S. Rakshit: Planck and neutrino masses
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30.5. J. Laamanen: Planck and the topology of the Universe
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19.6. (Thursday!) S. Hannestad (external speaker):
New Physics at Planck
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Verschoben:: Planck and Inflation
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27.6. M. Minuth: Planck and the composition of the Universe
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11.7. H. Päs: Planck, inflation and string cosmology
(new date!!!)
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18.7. G. Hiller: Planck and the nature of dark energy
(new date!!!)
Literature
Planck science case and WMAP results
- Planck Bluebook
- WMAP three year results: implications for cosmology, WMAP collab., Astrophys. J. Suppl. 170 (2007) 377 [e-Print: astro-ph/0603449]
Experiment web sites
- ESA's Planck mission website
- NASA's WMAP mission website
- NASA's COBE mission website
- BOOMERANG experiment
Popular science articles
- Das beschleunigte Universum I: Symphonie der Schöpfung Wayne Hu and Martin White, Spektrum der Wissenschaft 5/2004
- Der Nachhall des Urknalls Robert R. Caldwell and Marc Kamionkowski, Spektrum der Wissenschaft 4/2001
Review papers
- Cosmic microwave background anisotropies Wayne Hu, Scott Dodelson, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 40 (2002) 171-216 [e-Print: astro-ph/0110414]
- The Cosmic microwave background and particle physics Marc Kamionkowski, Arthur Kosowsky, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 49 (1999) 77-123 [e-Print: astro-ph/9904108]
- Particle data group review: Cosmic microwave background D. Scott, George F. Smoot, Review of Particle Physics, Phys.Lett.B 592 (2004) 1
- CMB Anisotropies: Their Discovery and Utilization George F. Smoot, e-Print: arXiv:0801.2563 [astro-ph] TASI lectures: Introduction to cosmology Mark Trodden, Sean M. Carroll, e-Print: astro-ph/0401547
Books
- S. Dodelson: Modern Cosmology
- E.W. Kolb, M.S. Turner: The Early Universe