Lecturer: Eric Linder, Phil Mauskopf

Special Topic VII: Cosmic Microwave Background

Outline:

0 IMPLICATIONS OF THE CMB

1 SPECTRUM AND HISTORY OF THE CMB
Blackbody Characteristics
Reionization
Compton Distortion

2 ANISOTROPIES AND LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE
2.1 Primordial Perturbations
2.2 Sachs-Wolfe Effect
2.3 Angles, Multipoles, and Power Spectra

3 PROBE OF COSMOLOGY AND STRUCTURE

4 EXPERIMENTS, DETECTIONS, AND COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS

Cosmic Microwave Background Lecture Notes (Linder)

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