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Slide 1 CHALLENGES OF RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS Reuven Opher (Univ. of Sao Paulo/Cornell. Univ.) Slide 2 WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED IN RELATIVISTIC…

Slide 1 Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe Slide 2 Mass within Sun’s orbit: 10 11 M Sun Observable stars and gas clouds: ~few 10 9 M Sun Slide 3 Dark…

Slide 1 Dark Energy Slide 2 Conclusions from Hubble’s Law The universe is expanding Space itself is expanding Galaxies are held together by gravity on “small” distance…

Slide 1 Formation of the Universe Review Slide 2 observed change in the frequency of a wave when the source or observer is moving Slide 3 Doppler Effect Slide 4 theory that…

Slide 1 Hiromi Suenaga Cody Tamura Period 1 Slide 2  It affects the Universe’s expansion  Other than that it is a total mystery  Roughly 70 % of the universe is…

Slide 1WFMOS: a tool for probing dark energy David Parkinson EDEN in Paris, December 2005 Slide 2 BAO as a standard ruler Acoustic Oscillations are imprinted into the matter…