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\subsection{Background}
Cosmology is the branch of Astrophysics
which studies the
universe on the largest scales.
Cosmology is primarily concerned with
studying understanding the universe as a
whole. Key dynamical
entity, the key questions
include: Where did being: what is the
universe
come from? Does current state of the universe?
What did it
go on for ever? Will look like a long time ago?
What will it
end some day? Many physicists look like in the future?
While these are
shocked very difficult questions to answer, in recent decades there has been
incredible progress in observational cosmology that has allowed us great insight into
the dynamical evolution of the universe.
For instance, measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the
poor quality WMAP and Planck
satellites have given us an extremely accurate picture of the state of the
data; if you don't throw up your
hands in disgust entire
observable universe just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, and
scream ``you can't assume that!'' at least once
during this prac, you won't show us the tiny
fluctuations in matter density in the early universe that have
understood what you're doing. Yet grown into the
truly remarkable thing is galaxies and clusters we see today.
The discovery in the 1990s that
cosmology the Universe's expansion is
possible at all; that accelerating fundamentally
changed our understanding not just of how the Universe will evolve but also its
composition.
Large galaxy surveys such as the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and the
microscopic inhabitants Sloan Digital Sky Survey
have mapped the positions in the sky of
this insignificant speck millions of
dust called galaxies in the nearby Universe,
and show that rich, complex structure exists on even the
Earth can dare largest scales.
Our inability to
try replicate the Universe within the confines of a laboratory makes
doing accurate Cosmology inherently difficult, and
understand it is hoped that this
practical exercise will give you an appreciation for the
nature power and limitations of
using astronomical data to learn about the
universe. Universe as a whole.
In this practical, you will use observations of two galaxy clusters to
estimate several key cosmological parameters. The observations were
made with the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in NSW;
see the asteroid hunting exercise for details of the telescope and
the photographic plates it produces \ -- \ photos of this telescope are displayed in the lab.
Most galaxies live in groups. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, lives in
a rather insignificant cluster we call the Local Group. This cluster