To be published in Structure
Formation in the Universe, July-August, 1999, Cambridge
THE GLOBAL COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS
Masataka Fukugita
University of
Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
Tanashi, Tokyo 188, Japan, and
Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, U. S. A.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
- Historical Note
- Extragalactic Distance Scale
- Distance to LMC
- ``The Pleiades Problem''
- Metallicity Effects in the LMC Cepheid
calibration
- Red Clump
- Detached Eclipsing Binaries
- RR Lyr Problems
- Conclusions on the LMC Distance
- Age of Globular Clusters
- Metallicity Problems with Cepheids
- Cross-check of the Cepheid Distances
- Tests with Geometric Methods
- Further Checks for M31
- Physical Methods
- Expansion Photosphere Model (EPM) for Type
II supernovae
- Gravitational Lensing Time Delay
- Zeldovich-Sunyaev Effect
- Physical Methods: Summary
- Conclusions on H0
-
THE DENSITY PARAMETER
- Model-Independent Determinations
- Luminosity Density x < M/L >
- H0 Versus Cosmic Age
- Type Ia Supernova Hubble Diagram
- Baryon Fractions
- Peculiar Velocity - Density Relation
- Model-Dependent Determinations
- Shape Parameter of the Transfer Function
- Evolution of the Rich Cluster Abundance
- Cluster Abundance Versus the COBE
Normalisation
- Power Spectrum in Nonlinear Galaxy
Clustering
- CBR Anisotropy Harmonics
- COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- Type Ia Supernova Hubble Diagram
- Gravitational Lensing Frequencies for
Quasars
- Harmonics of CBR Anisotropies
- CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES
