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In this Chapter we present an overview of cosmology, addressing its most important aspects and presenting some observational experiments and open problems.

And that inverted Bowl we call the Sky,

Whereunder crawling coop’t we live and die,

Lift not thy hands to It for help—for It,

Rolls impotently on as Thou or I

Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We shall not address BAO extensively in these notes, but only mention them in Chap. 10. Together with weak lensing, BAO are another powerful observable upon which present and future missions are planned.

  2. 2.

    The events detected by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration originated from merging of black holes or neutron stars. Thus are not part of the primordial GW background.

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