Visualization of the Universe’s expansion (Credit: WMAP Team/NASA [modified]).

The Observational Case for Dark Energy

Abstract

Dark Energy is often presented as mysterious and incomprehensible entity in our Universe while the evidence for it in Cosmology helps to understand scientists’ motivation for its concept. Slides available in German only.

Date
Jan 1, 2017 12:00 AM
Event
Institute for Astrophysics: Public Outreach Series
Location
Goettingen, Germany
Chris Byrohl
Chris Byrohl
Postdoc

My research interests include cosmoslogical galaxy formation simulations, Lyman-α radiation to study galaxies and the large-scale structure, supernovae type Ia and high-performance computing.