Table of Contents
Mapping the universe
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Nebulae
The Great Debate
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Cosmic distances
Galaxies everywhere
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Deep Field
The expanding universe
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Measuring redshifts
Hubble’s Law
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The expanding universe means that we can make a 3D map of the galaxies by measuring redshifts:The ‘Redshift Survey’
The distribution of the galaxies
Redshift surveys (mid-1980s)
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
Going faster with fibre optics
Tha AAT and The 2-degree Field
2dF top end
2dF on the AAT
Tiling strategy
2dFGRS geometry
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The state of the art in galaxy clustering
Fine detail: 2-degree thick slices (1-degree steps)
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Why do galaxies, clusters, and superclusters exist?
The expanding curved universe
History of the expansion
The uncertainty principle (1927)
Quantum fluctuations and cosmic structure
Gravitational instability:hierarchical collapse generates ever larger structures
The Hot Big Bang
COBE Microwave Sky
COBE microwave sky: 25,000 X stretch
Observing prehistoric structure
Weighing the universe
Weighing the universe
Simulating structure formation
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Forming superclusters (comoving view)
Non-gravitational caustics
The Hubble Volume Simulation
Our place in the universe
The outlook for cosmology
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