In a flat Universe that contains only a fluid with equation of state P = wpc,...
Weeks 5, 6: How is Olber's paradox solved? Does the Universe have a center or an edge? What is the cosmological principle? The Universe expands: why, how, and how do we know? What is cosmological redshift? What is the Big Bang? How old/big/fast is the Universe? How do Hubble's constant, the critical density of the flat universe, and the density parameter help us understand those properties of the Universe? What is the cosmic light horizon and why is it the...
The Friedmann equation describes the evolution in the scale factor a of our universe. () = 8cp - Keny Use this equation to derive a formula for the critical density of the universe at the present day – the density at which the universe will have a flat geometry. Carefully explain the steps you take in your derivation. You may assume that the Hubble constant H. =
A hypothesis once used to explain the Hubble relation is the "tired light hypothesis." The tired light hypothesis states that the universe is not expanding, but that photons simply lose energy as they move through space (by some unexplained means), with the energy loss per unit distance being given by the law ater ba some unecxplained macana), dE dr -kE where k is a constant. Show that this hypothesis gives a distance-redshift relation that is linear in the limit zく1....
Take h = 0.7. Orad,0 = 0.0m,0-0.3, and ΩΛ,0 0.7. (a) Use the formula for how the Hubble parameter H(t)-à/a changes with scale factor and express it as a function of redshift. b) How fast was the universe expanding at z-0.1, z 0.4, z 0.7, z -2, 2-5, and z = 1100? (in units of km/s/Mpc)? (c) Suppose instead that there is the same amount of matter but no dark energy (i.e. no cosmological constant). What would the expansion rates...
2. The present-day acceleration of the Universe could also be due to the existence of a false vacuum which will eventually decay. Assume that the energy of the false vacuum is εΛ 0.73 ε00, the energy of m atter is e,n,0 0.27 Eco, the Universe is flat, and e,0 5200 MeV m-3 a) What is the value of the Hubble parameter once completely dominates the expan- sion? Express it in units of km s-1 Mpc-1 and in units of to...
2000 Ho=68 km/s Mpc * Redshift (km/s) 1000 * Virgo Cluster 0 + + 0 a Montenele best 20 10 Distance (Mpc) Part 5/6 Let's now calculate the number of years that is, recalling that one year equals approximately 3 x 107 seconds x 10 നമാലയിൽ രാജി years Terms The universe is expanding according to Edwin Hubble's famous equation Hod where v is the velocity of a galaxy at distance d away. Professional astronomers usually talk about Hubble's Constant in...
Problem 5: Cosmology (15 points) In the 1990s, physicists generally assumed that ?,-0, that ?,-0 at the p possible that the universe contained enough dark matter so that 1. Assume that in th "golden oldie" universe model that the measured value of Ho-13.9 Gy resent. It was also is (a) Is this model's spatial geometry spherical, flat, or saddle-shaped? Explain. 2/3 (b) Assume that a O at t 0, show that a(o) - Hot) (c) Find the age of the...
Integrate to prove equations (5.90) and (5.91) for a matter
positive curvature universe.
Model Universes Table 5.1 Curved, matter-dominated universes. Density 20 < I Do > I Curvature Ultimate fate Big Chill (a α 1) Big Chill (a α t2/3) Big Crunch density, the universe will end in a fiery Big Crunch: if the density is less than or equal to the critical density, the universe will end in an icy Big Chill. In a curved universe containing only matter,...
5.8 Consider an expanding, positively curved universe containing only a cosmological constant (20 = 220 > 1). Show that such a universe underwent a “Big Bounce" at a scale factor doume = ( )", abounce = 1 (5.120) 20 and that the scale factor as a function of time is a(t) = Abounce cosh[/S20Ho(t – tbounce)], (5.121) where tbounce is the time at which the Big Bounce occurred. What is the time to - tbounce that has elapsed since the...
2. The acceleration equation We have derived in lectures the Friedmann and fluid equations, that describe the evolution of simple cosmologies. The Friedmann equation is usually given (adopting c 1) as where a(t) is the scale factor of the universe, p is the mass (energy) density, and k is constant. (a) (5 points) The simplest (although spectacularly uninteresting) cosmology has zero mass-energy, i.e. ρ 0. Solve the Friedmann equation under this condition to obtain an expression for at(t). Describe the...