A11 · Structure formation & modern cosmology
A 31-module path through a11 · structure formation & modern cosmology, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Cold Dark Matter
- Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant
- The ΛCDM Concordance Model
- Density Perturbations and the Density Contrast
- Linear Growth of Structure
- Jeans Instability and Cosmological Perturbation Regimes
- The Primordial Power Spectrum
- Transfer Function and the Matter Power Spectrum
- The CMB Anisotropy Power Spectrum
- Acoustic Oscillations in the Photon-Baryon Fluid
- Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
- The Sound Horizon and the Standard Ruler
- Silk Damping
- CMB Polarization and E/B Modes
- Sachs-Wolfe and Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effects
- Spherical Collapse and the Press-Schechter Formalism
- Dark Matter Halos and the Halo Mass Function
- The Cosmic Web and Large-Scale Structure
- Galaxy Redshift Surveys
- Galaxy Correlation Function and Clustering Statistics
- Galaxy Bias
- Redshift-Space Distortions
- Weak Gravitational Lensing and Cosmic Shear
- The σ8 Parameter and Amplitude of Clustering
- Nonlinear Structure Formation and N-body Simulations
- Dark Matter Candidates and Detection
- Equation of State of Dark Energy
- Massive Neutrinos in Cosmology
- The Hubble Tension
- The S8 / σ8 Tension
- Cosmological Parameter Estimation