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