Ultra-large-scale cosmology with future surveys

September 14, 2015
3:00pm to 4:00pm

IFT Seminars Room/Red Room

Specialist level
Speaker: 
David Alonso
Institution: 
Oxford University, UK
Location&Place: 

IFT Seminars Room/Red Room

Abstract: 

The forthcoming optical and radio observatories will, in the next decade or so, probe a large fraction of the whole observable Universe. This will open a new observational window into the study of cosmological observables on ultra-large scales, such as general-relativistic corrections in large-scale structure or the seeds of primordial non-Gaussianity. I will review the prospects for measuring these effects in the context of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), as well as the observational challenges that must be tackled before such measurements can be carried out.