Introduction: Cosmological principle, metric, redshift, distances, Friedmann models
Radiation Processes: Free-free, synchrotron, and dust emission.
Cosmic Microwave Background: Standard cosmological model, inflation, temperature power spectrum, reionization. CMB polarization.
The Local Universe: Dark matter, galaxy velocity-luminosity relation, cluster of galaxies, the SZ effect, baryonic acoustic oscillations, lenses. Lyman break galaxies.
Distant Universe: evolution of dark matter structures and galaxies. AGN. Redshift estimators.
Cosmic star formation history: Madau plot. Submillimetric galaxies. Star fomentation rate estimators.
Experiments: Review of FIR/mm-wave surveys. How to design an astronomical instrument.
- Docente: ENZO Pascale