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Weak lensing and cosmic acceleration (2007) |
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SISSA ISAS SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE STUDI AVANZATI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES Weak lensing and cosmic acceleration Thesis submitted for the degree Doctor Philosophi CANDIDATE Viviana Acquaviva SUPERVISOR Prof Carlo Baccigalupi October mia madre mio padre che hanno sempre incoraggiato mio amore per ricerca mio fratello che forse seguir questa strada forse Table Contents Title Page Table Contents Citations Previously Published Acknowledgments Works vii puzzling inconsistency The mathematical description the Universe The measurement the Hubble parameter The matter budget The overall geometry the Universe The deceleration parameter Putting numbers together The physics gravitational lensing Notation Lensing systems Weak lensing large scale structures Lensing theory From lensing Cosmology Lensing the Cosmic Microwave Background The unlensed CMB radiation Qualitative overview Why CMB lensing for dark energy Lensing and dark energy not only CMB Lensing generalized cosmologies Why not cosmological constant Dark energy modified gravity Generalized cosmologies Einstein equations Formal setting Background Linear cosmological perturbations Generalized Poisson equations Table Contents Lensing equation Weak lensing observables Distortion tensor Generalized lensing potential Convergence power spectrum example correlation with other Summary CMB secondary anisotropies Lensing Quintessence models Dark energy cosmology CMB lensing and Boltzmann numerical codes cosmology Len |
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Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies (2005)
- Eisenstein, Daniel,
- Zehavi, Idit,
- Hogg, David,
- Scoccimarro, Roman,
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- Nichol, Robert,
- Scranton, Ryan,
- Seo, Hee-jong,
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- Anderson, Scott,
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- Bahcall, Neta,
- Brinkmann, Jon,
- Burles, Scott,
- Castander, Francisco,
- Connolly, Andrew,
- Csabai, Istvan,
- Doi, Mamoru,
- Fukugita, Masataka,
- Frieman, Joshua,
- Glazebrook, Karl,
- Gunn, James,
- Hendry, John,
- Hennessy, Gregory,
- Ivezic, Zeljko,
- Kent, Stephen,
- Knapp, Gillian,
- Lin, Huan,
- Loh, Yeong-Shang,
- Lupton, Robert,
- Margon, Bruce,
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- Meiksin, Avery,
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- Schlegel, David,
- Schneider, Donald,
- Shimasaku, Kazuhiro,
- Stoughton, Christopher,
- Strauss, Michael,
- SubbaRao, Mark,
- Szalay, Alexander,
- Szapudi, Istvan,
- Tucker, Douglas,
- Yanny, Brian,
- York, Donald
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Weak Lensing of the CMB: A Harmonic Approach (2000)
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A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity (1997)
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Prospects for Dark Energy Evolution: a Frequentist Multi-Probe Approach (2005)
- Yeche, C.,
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- Refregier, A.,
- Tao, C.,
- Tilquin, A.,
- Yvon, D.
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Basic Approach to the Problem of Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy (2001)
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Robustness of the Quintessence Scenario in Particle Cosmologies (2002)
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Quintessence and the Separation of CMB Peaks (2000)
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What's Behind Acoustic Peaks in the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies (2001)
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Cosmological constraints on the dark energy equation of state and its evolution (2004)
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Extended Quintessence: imprints on the cosmic microwave background spectra (2000)
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