Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-04-12
AIP Conf.Proc.1057:87-124,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
36 pages, 11 figures, based on 5 lectures given at XII Ciclo de Cursos Especiais at Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Bra
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3000000
The discovery ten years ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating put in place the present cosmological model, in which the Universe is composed of 4% baryons, 20% dark matter, and 76% dark energy. Yet the underlying cause of cosmic acceleration remains a mystery: it could arise from the repulsive gravity of dark energy -- for example, the quantum energy of the vacuum -- or it may signal that General Relativity breaks down on cosmological scales and must be replaced. In these lectures, I present the observational evidence for cosmic acceleration and what it has revealed about dark energy, discuss a few of the theoretical ideas that have been proposed to explain acceleration, and describe the key observational probes that we hope will shed light on this enigma in the coming years.
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