D.V. FursaevJINR, DubnaMysteries of
the Universe
Problems of the Modern Cosmology
facts about our Universe
mathematical model, Friedman universe
consequences, the Big Bang
recent observational data
problem of the dark energy and dark matter
inflation and the problem of initial data
plan of the lecture
What do we know about our Galaxy (Milky Way)?
diameter – 120 000 light years width - 6 500 light years
(1 light year is about 10 000 billions km)
Other facts:
Number of stars – 100 billions
Distance to the star which is closest to the Earth (Alfa Centauri) - 4,3 light years
Distance to a black hole which is closest to the Earth -1600 light years
Distance from the Earth to the center of the Galaxy -30 000 light years
What do we know about our Universe?
- Age – about 14 billions years
- Number of galaxies – 100 billions
- Average number of stars per galaxy - 100 billions
Key facts about the Universe
- the Universe is isotropic and homogeneous at scales -100 millions pc (1 pc = 3,26 light year), this scale is 1000 larger than the syze of a galaxy
- the Universe is expanding and the acceleration rate is increasing!
- the Universe is filled with a highly homogeneous cosmic microwave backgrond radiataion (CMBR) with temperature 2.7 K
Mathematical model: Friedman Universe
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-Einstein equations for gravitational field
-the Newton constant
-stress-energy tensor of matter
-space-time metric
-metric on a maximally symmetric space
-plane
-3-sphere
-Lobachevsky space
Friedman equations and their consequences (developed by A. Friedman in 1922-1924)
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initial cosmological singularity- the Big Bang
- one of the Einstein equations
-Hubble parameter
- density of matter- pressure of matter
- equation of state- “conservation law”- flat Universe with a dust matter
- flat Universe with a radiation
the redshift factor – characteristic of a distance
In the Friedman universe all lengths grow proportionally to the scale factor
the wave length of the photons is stretched together with the scale factor
- the redshift factor
time of emission
time of observation
the wavelength of a photon at the time of emission
the wavelength of a photon at the time of observation
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The Hubble law(1929)
The rate of the distance increase between galaxies due to expansion of the Universe is
V=H R=z c
H= 71 (km/s)/Mpc – the Hubble constant
R – the distance
E. Hubble(1889-1953)
The law is valid for “close” objectswith redshifts z << 1
consequences The expansion of the Universe and the presence of the cosmic
singularity indicate that the “young” Universe was very dense and very hot
When the temperature decreased the Univese underwent a number of phase transitions
At the temperature of the order of 1000 degrees the recombination of the ionized plasma occured and the matter became “transparent” for the radiation (“relic photons” or CMBR)
The temperature of the relic photons lowered during the expansion
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation(discovered by A. Penzias & R.W. Wilson in 1965)
The spectrum of CMBR is
Planckian with the
temperature about 2,7 К(radioband)
It is important for physicists that the temperature distribution is slightly inhomogeneous
510T
T
fluctuations of the CMBR temperature
The power spectrum
the angular syze of a typicalinhomogeneity is 1 degreewhich is equivalent to l=200
«Snapshot» of the young Universe
(when it was 300 thousands years old)
CMBR data tell that the Universe is spatially flat (k=0)!
this yields the value of the density for the present
value of the Hubble parameter:
gramm /cubic meter
to compare: the mass of the proton is
gramm
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This means that the average density of matter in the Universe is
beyond the Hubble law
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-luminosity of the object (totalenergy emitted per unit time)
-brightness of the object, asmeasured by an observer
redshift of the object
one can extract the information about the scale factor if the luminosity distance and the redshift of different objects
are known
How do we measure the (luminosity) distance to the most remote objects in the Universe?
We use supernovae as “standard candles”-the objects with the known luminosity
Quiz
the answer:
the question:
A supernova explosion
Remnants of a supernova (its explosion was observed by Kepler)
the redsift is aboutz=1
the universe expands with some acceleration (antigravity)
Acceleration means that the second derivative of the scale factor is positive
0a
To measure second and higher derivatives one needs information about expansion at large
distances (where the Hubble law does not hold)
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What is our Universe composed of?
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-the density of an unknown form of matter which ensures acceleration, this matter is called “the dark energy”
-the density of matter with a usual equation of state
What are the proportions between the two forms of matter in the Universe?
0.7
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The mystery of the Universe:
Only 5 % of the Universe is composed of the known matter:
0,03 % - heavy elements (matter of planets)0,5% - stars0,3 % - relativistic particles (neutrino)4 % - free Helium and Hydrogen
MThe rest part of is directly unobservable form of matter (the dark matter)
How can we know about the existence of the «other» forms of
matter?
galaxy rotation curves
gravitational lenseing
observation of velocities of distant galaxies
Effects of gravity!
galaxy rotation curves
One could expect: the further the object from the center the slower its rotation
The observed behaviour
(NB: rotation velocity of the Solar System around the centerof the Milky Way is 250 km/s)
gravitational lenses
the gravitational field distorts trajectories of the light rays
effects of gravitational lenses
25% matter of the universe is concentrated in the
galaxies and galaxy clusters in the form which we cannot directly observe, this form of the matter is
called
«the dark matter»
Dark matter candidates?
Massive compact objects (black holes, white dwarfs?)
New stable particles weakly interacting with quarks, leptons, photons ...?
New physics at accelerators of the next generation?
the dark energy
homogeneously distributed throughout the Universe,
makes 70% of total density of the matter
Cosmological constant (negative pressure)?
Quintessence (a new field or a fifth essence)?
Modification of the Einstein theory at large distances?
The vacuum energy (equation of state with w=-1)
4
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2 2vac bosons fermions
bosons fermions
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single-particle frequences
- the leading order
-is an ultraviolet cutoff associated to some physical scale
The problem
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SUSY
EW Z
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-a quantum gravity scale (?)
- a supersymmetry scale (?)
- the electroweak scale
- cosmological (dark energy) scale
inflation and the problem of “initial data” in the Friedman model
horizon problem
the problem of the size of the universe
the problem of flatness
horizon problem
for a power law expansion the part of the Universe (which became observable now) consists of a large number of casually independent regions;
Why (according to CMBR data) those regions are in thermal equilibrium?
size of the universe
if the size of the universe at the Planckian moment
was then the size of the
universe at the present time would be
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the problem of flatness
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-to get the density at the present moment close to the critical density
one has to finetune the density at the Planckian moment
the idea of inflation
very rapid expansion of the universe after the birth
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A.Guth, A.Linde,...
de Sitter-like stage after the birth
exponetial change of the scale factor
Hubble parameter is determined by the Planckian scale
after this time the universe may havethe Friedman evolution
Conclusions
next 10-20 years may become a revolutionfor our understanding of which the universe is made of
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