Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2.BASIC COSMOLOGY
- 2.1.Friedmann-Robertson-Walker
cosmology
- 2.2.Distances and the Hubble
diagram
- 2.3.Growth of structure and
Lambda CDM
- 3.FROM EINSTEIN TO ACCELERATED
EXPANSION
- 3.1.Greatest blunder?
- 3.2.Steady state and after
- 3.3.Enter inflation
- 3.4.Discovery
- 4.CURRENT STATUS
- 4.1.Cosmic microwave background
and large-scale structure
- 4.2.Recent supernova results
- 4.3.X-ray clusters
- 4.4.Age of the Universe
- 4.5.Cosmological parameters
- 5.UNDERSTANDING COSMIC ACCELERATION
- 5.1.Dark energy models
- 5.2.Modified gravity
- 5.3.Unmodified gravity
- 5.4.Theory summary
- 6.DESCRIBING DARK ENERGY
- 6.1.Parametrizations
- 6.2.Direct reconstruction
- 6.3.Principal components
- 6.4.Kinematic description
- 7.PROBES OF COSMIC ACCELERATION
- 7.1.Supernovae
- 7.2.Clusters
- 7.3.Baryon acoustic oscillations
- 7.4.Weak gravitational lensing
- 7.5.Other probes
- 7.6.Role of the CMB
- 7.7.Probing new gravitational
physics
- 7.8Summary and comparison
- 8.DARK ENERGY PROJECTS
- 8.1.Ground-based surveys
- 8.2.Space-based surveys
- 9.DARK ENERGY & COSMIC DESTINY
- 10. CONCLUDING REMARKS
- 10.1.Take-home facts
- 10.2.Open issues and
challenges
- 11.APPENDIX
- 11.1.Figure(s) of merit
- 11.2.Fisher information matrix
- REFERENCES