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COSMOLOGY

Edwin Hubble

Velocity used as a surrogate for distance – km/s for v<<c, otherwise redshift, z, where

Hubble’s Law (published 1929): H0 = 72 (+/-5) km/s per Mpc

N.B. Everything appears to be moving away from us, but in reality everything is moving away from everything (on cosmological scales; not true locally... Also, expansion of the universe does not mean expansion of the contents of the universe.) ‘Big Bang’ model Convenient BUT WRONG to think in terms of a point explosion: The universe is (almost certainly) infinite, and always has been infinite, even at the time of the big bang....(brain hurt time). ‘Size of the universe’ generally means ‘what we can see’ Expansion allows a simple, approximate estimate of the age of the universe

‘Big Bang’ model (model, not a theory) is in accord with: Hubble Flow (expansion of the universe) Evolution of source counts Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Primordial abundances of elements (Other, more detailed, features are consistent with inflationary and ‘λCDM’ theories)

Evolution of source counts (Martin Ryle; 1974, first Nobel Prize for astronomical research) More objects than expected with increasing volume, i.e., with increasing distance, i.e., with decreasing age – there were more radio sources per unit volume in the past than there are now

COSMIC ABUNDANCES In its early phases (but not too early! – about 100s after ‘the start’) conditions throughout the universe were not too dissimilar to stellar interiors  primordial nucleosynthesis (creation of H, He etc.) Particular importance: constrains baryon content of the universe: ΩB = 0.04

Relic radiation: the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Initially, the universe was fully ionized, and optically thick (because of electron scattering). Matter and radiation strongly interacted  black-body distribution of radiation Eventually, the universe cooled sufficiently for (hydrogen) atoms to form (T = 3000K, t = 100,000yr, z = 1000). Radiation decoupled from matter, and has flowed through the universe ever since. We see this ‘last scattering surface’ redshifted, and it appears to us as a black body at T = 3K (or 2.7K, or 2.725K, depending on how picky you are)

COBE spectrum: the most precise black body in nature

DYNAMICS OF THE UNIVERSE The Friedmann Equation: R is the ‘scale factor’ Λ is the ‘cosmological constant’ term k is the ‘curvature’: -1 corresponds to an open universe +1 corresponds to a closed universe 0 corresponds to a critical universe This has a simple but limited dynamical interpretation, and a complex but general geometrical interpretation

After the big bang, we might expect the rate of expansion to slow down under the influence of gravity. This anticipated deceleration is characterized by the ‘deceleration parameter’, q0, which is evidently related to the total mass content of the universe. This mass content is conventionally expressed as ΩM, a fraction of the mass required to bring the universe to a halt after infinite time; if it dominates the dynamics of the universe, then q0 = ΩM/2.

ΩM < 1 – matter will stop universal expansion after finite (q0 < 0.5) time (followed by recollapse, and a ‘Big Crunch’); a closed universe Geometry: positive curvature, k = +1 ΩM > 1 – gravity will never stop the expansion (an open (q0>0.5) universe) Geometry: negative curvature, k = -1 ΩM = 1 – a critical universe (q0 = 0.5) Geometry: flat (Euclidean), k = 0

SUPERNOVA COSMOLOGY

the universe is accelerating! In seeking to determine the deceleration of the universe, it turns out that it’s not decelerating at all; the universe is accelerating! So what is ΩM? Well, whatever it is, there has to be something else involved in the dynamics of the universe? We generalize Ω to include not just matter, but all forms of mass/energy: ΩM = ΩB + ΩDM (+ Ων....) ΩΛ (+ Ωstarlight, ΩCMB...) What is the geometry (i.e., what is Ωtotal?)

Q: How do we determine geometry? A: From small-scale structure in the CMB Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation ANd Geophysics

CMB is constant to 1 part in 100,000....but does have structure

The geometry of the Universe is flat (ΩTotal = 1) to within a few per cent (implies very close to flat) But ΩB = 0.04, and ΩM = 0.3 What makes up the rest? Not starlight, not neutrinos, not CMB but the cosmological constant/dark energy/vacuum energy ΩΛ = 0.7 (corresponds to an equivalent mass density of the vacuum of 10-26 kg m-3 – 120 orders of magnitude smaller than particle-physics estimate!)  ‘Concordance Model’