How to compare cosmological predictions with experimental data through the power spectrum of matter

• Grant number: 12/11211-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Extragalactic Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Cunha de Holanda
• Grantee: David Montenegro Coelho
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the distribution of baryonic matter. This will be done by using numerical simulation to generate, from initial fluctuations, a universe that presents a pattern of inhomogeneities compatible to the observable universe. By this comparison we can test various parameters for the standard cosmological model. (AU)