Astr 507 | Lecture 35 | Spring 2014
Evgenni Mikhailovich Lifshitz
Astronomy 507
Lecture 35, April 21 Spring 2014

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Growth of Cosmological Perturbations: Newtonian Linear Theory

  • Jeans analysis in non-expanding background
  • Perturbation in expanding FLRW background
  • Unstable modes, linear growth factor

Growth of Cosmological Perturbations: Sketch of Relativistic Theory

Millenium simulation of cosmic density field
  at redshift z=5.7 (t = 1.0 Gyr)

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