Chan, Wing Hang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chan, Wing Hang. / Chapter 1 --- Review of Cosmology --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background Evolution of Universe --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- The Cosmological Principle --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- The Non-static Universe --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- Robertson-Walker metric --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.4 --- Scale Factor and Cosmological Redshift --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.5 --- Hubble Constant --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.6 --- The Einstein Field Equations --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.7 --- The Cosmological Constant --- p.6 / Chapter 1.1.8 --- Time Evolution --- p.6 / Chapter 1.1.9 --- Continuity Equation --- p.7 / Chapter 1.1.10 --- Conformal Distance --- p.8 / Chapter 1.2 --- Observational Data --- p.8 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Type Ia Supernovae --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Cosmic Microwave Background --- p.9 / Chapter 2 --- Review of Dark Energy Models --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Cosmological Constant --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Quintessence --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Extra Dimension Models --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Kaluza-Klein --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Generalized Homogeneous and Isotropic Extra Dimensions --- p.12 / Chapter 3 --- Review of CMB and Type Ia Supernovae --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Type Ia Supernovae --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Comparison of cosmological models with recent SNIa data --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2 --- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Power Spectrum of CMBA --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Photon Baryon Oscillation --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Acoustic Peaks --- p.23 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Matter Perturbation --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- Baryon Loading --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.6 --- Photons Driving --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2.7 --- Initial Conditions --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2.8 --- Reionization --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2.9 --- The Vanilla ACDM Model --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2.10 --- Summary of CMBA --- p.26 / Chapter 4 --- Constraining Dark Energy Models --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1 --- Constraining Dark Energy Density Using SN Ia data --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Direct Calculation of Dark Energy Density --- p.27 / Chapter 4.2 --- Constraining Dark Energy Density Using CMB data --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Dark Energy Evolution for time varying EOS --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Dark Energy Density Perturbation --- p.32 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Parameterization of Time Varying Dark Energy --- p.32 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Effect of Dark Energy Density on CMBA power spectrum --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Limitations and Difficulties Constraining Dark Energy Equation of State --- p.41 / Chapter 4.2.6 --- Constraining the Evolution of Dark Energy Density with a polynomial model --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.7 --- Constraining Evolution of Dark Energy Density with Gaussian-type EOS --- p.59 / Chapter 4.2.8 --- Constraining Evolution of Dark Energy Step Function EOS with CMB Acoustic Peaks --- p.66 / Chapter 5 --- Summary --- p.73 / Bibliography --- p.76
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_326551 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Contributors | Chan, Wing Hang., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, xiv, 78 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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