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Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology

Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology. Max Tegmark, MIT. Smorgasbord. Galaxy surveys. Microwave background. Supernovae Ia. THE COSMIC SM Ö RG Å SBORD. Gravitational lensing. Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Galaxy clusters. Neutral hydrogen tomography. Lyman  forest.

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Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology

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  1. Mapping our Universe for Precision Cosmology Max Tegmark, MIT

  2. Smorgasbord Galaxy surveys Microwave background Supernovae Ia THE COSMIC SMÖRGÅSBORD Gravitational lensing Big Bang nucleosynthesis Galaxy clusters Neutral hydrogen tomography Lyman  forest

  3. What have we learned?

  4. To 0th order: Fluctuation generator Fluctuation amplifier 386 Hot DenseSmooth 400 H(z) Cool Rarefied Clumpy (Graphics from Gary Hinshaw/WMAP team) Cosmological functions (z), G(z,k), Ps(k), Pt(k)

  5. To 1st order: Fluctuation generator Fluctuation amplifier 386 Hot Dense Smooth 400 H(z) P(k,z) Cool Rarefied Clumpy (Graphics from Gary Hinshaw/WMAP team)

  6. Formation movies

  7. Par movies

  8. Cmbgg OmOl Using WMAP + SDSS LRGs: 75% 21% 4%

  9. 386 430 13.8

  10. Cmbgg OmOl  C = h = G = kb = qe = 1 Particle physics Standard model parameters: Required Cosmology Optional

  11. What we’ve learned about dark energy from SN Ia Yun Wang, arXiv:0910.2492

  12. 1parmovies CMB Clusters LSS Lensing Lya Tegmark & Zaldarriaga, astro-ph/0207047 + updates

  13. CMB progress

  14. exp9911 Shown at DM2000: CMB

  15. boom Shown at DM2002: CMB

  16. 105dpi Shown at DM2004: CMB

  17. Boomzoom Shown at DM2006: +B03, … For Guth & Kaiser 2005, Science

  18. Shown at DM2008: Reichardt et al 2008, arXiv:0801.1491

  19. WMAP7 2010

  20. J. W. Fowler et al, arXiv:1001.2934 148 GHz

  21. Planck launched 5/14-09 and works well:

  22. Galaxy clustering progress

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