waynehu

Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago

Group Contact CV SnapShots

CMB Introduction '96 Intermediate '01 Polarization Intro '01 Cosmic Symphony '04 Polarization Primer '97 Review '02 Power Animations Lensing Power Prehistory Legacy Material '96 PhD Thesis '95 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Cosmic Shear Clusters

Transfer Function

Intro to Cosmology [243] Cosmology I [legacy 321] Cosmology II [321] Current Topics [282] Galaxies and Universe [242] Radiative Processes [305] Research Preparation [307] GR Perturbation Theory [408] CMB [448] Cosmic Acceleration [449]

University of Chicago Astronomy Department KICP Thunch astro-ph.CO ADS InSpire

Summary

Physical Mechanisms of Anisotropy Formation

Compressions and Rarefactions of Acoustic Waves

Potential Driving Effect

Photon Diffusion

ISW or Metric Evolution

Gravitational Lensing

Power Spectrum Phenomenology

Harmonic Series of Peaks

Alternating Peak Heights

Potential Envelope

Damping Envelope

Uses of Anisotropies

Model for structure formation from acoustic phase and potential envelope

Cosmological parameter fitting given a model

Cosmological parameter determination from robust features

Curvature: Peak Spacing
Baryons: Damping Tail with peak spacing and Alternating Peaks
Total Matter Density/Hubble Constant: Equality & Shape Parameter with peak spacing
Cosmological Constant: ISW with peak spacing

Reionization, clusters, & the first generation of structure