Cosmology Rounding the Cape
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A survey is made of the present observational status on cosmological parameters from microwave background anisotropies. I then move to some non-standard aspect of parameter extraction like quintessence, extra-background of relativistic particles and variations in fundamental constants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0204262,
title = {Cosmology Rounding the Cape},
author = {Alessandro Melchiorri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0204262},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, 5 figures, Invited contribution to the 4th Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Cape Town, South Africa (February 2002. Eds. H. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R. Viollier)