Proceedings of the 1st Aegean Cosmology Summer School
(2001).
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Abstract. The following review is based on lectures given in the
1st
Samos Cosmology summer school. It presents an attempt
to discuss various issues of current interest in Observational
Cosmology, the selection of which as well as the emphasis
given, reflects my own preference and biases. After presenting
some Cosmological basics, for which I was aided by excellent
text-books, I emphasize on attempts to determine some of
the important cosmological parameters; the Hubble constant,
the curvature and total mass content of the Universe. The
outcome of these very recent studies is that the concordance
model, that fits the majority of observations, is that with
m
+
= 1,
0.7,
H0
70 km s-1
Mpc-1,
B
0.04 and spectral index
of primordial fluctuations, the inflationary value n
1. I apologise before
hand for the many important works that I have omitted and for the possible
misunderstanding of those presented.
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