The large-scale Universe 0800-PA-LASCUNIV

https://cosmo.astro.uni.torun.pl/cosmo/LargeScaleUniverse

Large-scale astrophysical individual and statistically defined objects:

galaxies, clusters of galaxies, voids, cosmic web, baryon acoustic oscillations, cosmic microwave background fluctuations;

Physical cosmology:

hot big bang model (FLRW model, Hubble-Lemaitre expansion, cosmic microwave background, primordial nucleosynthesis), Friedmann equations, Einstein static solution, Einstein-de Sitter model, scale-factor--time--redshift relations, comoving arc length, angular diameter distance, luminosity distance, cosmological paradoxes, LambdaCDM model, general-relativistic models and their observational foundations, galaxy formation

Total student workload

- time with lecturer: 30 h - time on individual work required for effective evaluation of the course: 30 h - time for preparation and participation in course assessment: 30 h - time for obligatory laboratory work: 0h Total: 90. hours (…3. ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

W1: K_W04 – knows the physical processes of how primordial perturbations grow gravitationally to form large-scale structure and galaxies; W2: K_W06 – has knowledge of the Lambda CDM model of cosmology and its observational strengths and weaknesses W3: K_W08 - knows and understands the relation of free-licensing of software in relation to the intellectual obligations of scientific understanding, scientific reproducibility, intellectual freedom, universal dissemination of knowledge and non-discrimination in the sense of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

Learning outcomes - skills

U1: K_U04 - can use and modify the available free-licensed software for numerical modelling of large-scale physical properties of the Universe and of objects in the Universe U2: K_U07 – can see how astronomical evidence suggesting the existence of dark matter and dark energy stimulates research in fundamental physics

Learning outcomes - social competencies

K1: K_K01 - knows the limits of own understanding of extragalactic research and understands the need for learning more from peer-reviewed research articles

Teaching methods

lectures, exercises, calculations, analogies

Prerequisites

general knowledge of mathematics, physics, astronomy, special and general relativity

Course coordinators

Boudewijn Roukema

Assessment criteria

The exam consists of questions randomly chosen from an N-dimensional parameter space of questions where N is much greater than 10. Each student is given rapid feedback and may ask for new questions in order to improve his/her score without limit, apart from the total time available. The expected examination time is about 2-3 hours, but students may continue to a maximum of 6.5 hours. K_W04, K_W06, K_W08, K_U04, K_U07

Grades are rounded using the "round half to even" algorithm to minimise statistical biases.

Practical placement

N/A

Additional information

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