My Documents on CMB
(Last Updated: June 4, 2012)

---

(You may not be able to read a part of followings, as some of them are written in Japanese.)

---

Latest review article on non-Gaussianity

• Review Article: "Hunting for Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Microwave Background"
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 124010 (May 27 2010), 26 pages
  • arXiv:1003.6097

• Brief Review: "Critical Tests of Inflation as a Mechanism for Generating Observed Cosmological Fluctuations in the Universe"
  • Proceedings of JGRG21 (Sendai, Japan; September 26-29, 2011)
  • komatsu_jgrg21_proceedings.pdf [187KB] (submitted on June 4, 2012)

Recent lecture notes (some are hand-written)

• Lecture Note: "Expansion of the Universe, CMB, and Large-scale Structure: Introduction"
  • School on Cosmology and Gravity Waves, IUCAA, Pune, India; December 1-11, 2011
  • lecture_cosmo_iucaa_2011.pdf (13.2MB)

• Lecture Note: "Non-Gaussianity"
  • School on Cosmology and Gravity Waves, IUCAA, Pune, India; December 1-11, 2011
  • lecture_NG_iucaa_2011.pdf (1.5MB)

• Lecture Note: "Hunting for Primordial non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Microwave Background"
  • Summer school at Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese; July 7-9, 2010
  • lecture_NG_corsica_cosmology_school.pdf (5.6MB)

• Lecture Note: "B-mode Polarization"
  • Department of Astronomy, Tohoku University; June 1, 2009
  • lecture_bmodes.pdf (0.444MB)

• Lecture Note: "Primordial non-Gaussianity"
  • Department of Physics, Tohoku University; June 4, 2009
  • lecture_fnl.pdf (0.588MB)

• Lecture Note: "B-mode Polarization and Primordial non-Gaussianity with Introduction"
  • Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU); June 17, 2009
  • ipmu_lecture_2009.pdf (7.2MB)

Here are my Ph.D. dissertation and Master's thesis.

• Ph.D. Thesis, "The Pursuit of Non-Gaussian Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background"
  September 2001, Tohoku University, 129 pages.
  • abstract/download

• 修士論文「宇宙背景放射」
  1999年3月, 東北大学, 286ページ。
  2nd edition: 2000/10/20 (マイナーな訂正)
  3rd edition: 2001/11/10 (付録C,D,E: 速度場のゆらぎを見やすく書き直 し)
  • abstract/download

• 修士論文・付録集「ゲージ不変な一般相対論的摂動論および光の伝播」
  修士論文の付録の部分の抜粋。77ページ。
  • abstract/download

以下の講義ノートは、修士論文の 内容を抜粋し、とっつきやすく説明したものです。

• 講義ノート「宇宙背景放射」
  2000年3月7-8日, 東北大学。81ページ。
  第2版: 2000年10月20日 (誤りの訂正と謝辞を追加)。
  • CMB_lecture00_2nd.ps.gz (1266KB) [GNUzipped PostScript]
  • CMB_lecture00_2nd.pdf.zip (4779KB) [zipped PDF]

• 講義ノート「インフレーション理論のアウトライン」
  2000年12月29日, 東北大学。18ページ。
  • inflation_lecture00.ps.gz (150KB) [GNUzipped PostScript]
  • inflation_lecture00.pdf.zip (588KB) [zipped PDF]

2002年の天文・天体物理夏の学校で講演した内容のまとめです。

• 集録「宇宙背景放射から何を学ぶか（個人的意見）」
  2002年8月1日, 天文・天体物理夏の学校。16ページ。
  • ss02.ps.gz (1234KB) [GNUzipped PostScript]
  • ss02.pdf.zip (1780KB) [zipped PDF]

---

Back to Home