Cosmic microwave background: generation and observations of anisotropies

A. Challinor

The notes of the two morning lectures can be found here:

First Lecture

Second Lecture

Reading material for CMB lectures at UNIVERSENET

Here are a few suggestions for some useful background reading to accompany my two CMB lectures next week:

For a very brief introduction, see
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html on the WMAP webpages.

For a good, popular-level overview see Hu & White's Scientific American article, "The cosmic symphony", available on Wayne Hu's website as
http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/Papers/HuWhi04.pdf

For an excllent, more advanced on-line tutorial on CMB physics, see Wayne Hu's webpages at http://background.uchicago.edu/

For lecture notes from a few years back that contain expanded discussion on some of the material I will cover, see
http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403344