ASTR508

COSMOLOGY

PERTURBATIONS IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE

Professor: Julio F. Navarro

List of Topics

• EVOLUTION OF DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS
• Non-relativistic perturbations in an expanding universe
• Jeans' Instability
• The Relativistic Case
• GALAXY FORMATION IN A BARYONIC UNIVERSE
• Adiabatic Fluctuations
• Radiation-dominated era
• Matter-dominated era
• Isothermal Perturbations

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