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ASTR 5460, Fall 2006
  • Microwave Background Radiation
  • Extra reading assignment:
  • http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CMB.html


  • More detailed pages that will be useful later:
  • Wayne Hu has more tutorial webpages aimed at several levels: http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/
  • WMAP Results: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/


  • First some a couple of slides Re: Darkmatter
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Dark Matter
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Baryonic Dark Matter
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Looking Back Towards the Early Universe
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The Cosmic Background Radiation
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Microwave Background Temperature Spectrum
  • We went through the argument about how conservation of photons per volume element leads to the preservation of a blackbody, albeit at lower temperature.
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
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CMB Power Spectrum