Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound - Exploring the Universe Through Acoustic Waves

Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound - Exploring the Universe Through Acoustic Waves

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What is the Universe Made Of?

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What is the Universe Made Of?

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Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound - Exploring the Universe Through Acoustic Waves

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Outline
  3. 3 What is the Universe Made Of?
  4. 4 Dark Matter!
  5. 5 The Expanding Universe
  6. 6 Weighing the Universe
  7. 7 Surprise! Dark Energy!
  8. 8 Distances to Acceleration
  9. 9 Distance vs Redshift.
  10. 10 Cosmic Composition
  11. 11 What Causes the Acceleration?
  12. 12 Turning up the Contrast
  13. 13 The Microwave Background at Contrast of 105
  14. 14 Anisotropies of the CMB
  15. 15 Acoustic Oscillations in the CMB
  16. 16 Sound Waves in the Early Universe
  17. 17 A Standard Ruler
  18. 18 A Statistical Signal
  19. 19 Mapping the Universe
  20. 20 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  21. 21 SDSS Collaboration
  22. 22 The SDSS Imaging Legacy
  23. 23 Mapping in Three Dimensions!
  24. 24 Plugging a Plate
  25. 25 Galaxy Correlation Functions
  26. 26 Detection of the Acoustic Peak
  27. 27 The Acoustic Peak in 2014
  28. 28 The Cosmic Distance Scale
  29. 29 The Lyman a Forest
  30. 30 Mapping at High Redshift!
  31. 31 Detection of Cosmic Deceleration from z = 2.4 to z = 0.6
  32. 32 BAO Confirms Dark Energy
  33. 33 Cosmological Implications: Measuring Dark Energy
  34. 34 Cosmological Leverage
  35. 35 Cosmological Constraints
  36. 36 The End of the Beginning
  37. 37 A New Decade of Cosmic Structure
  38. 38 Conclusions

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