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Probing the expansion history of the universe using upernovae and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The standard model of cosmology (the ɅCDM model) has been very successful and is compatible with all observational data up to now. However, it remains an important task to develop and apply null tests of this model. These ...
Perturbations of dark energy models
(University of Western Cape, 2012)
The growth of structure in the Universe proceeds via the collapse of dark matter
and baryons. This process is retarded by dark energy which drives an accelerated
expansion of the late Universe. In this thesis we use ...
The observed bispectrum for SKA and other galaxy surveys
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Next-generation galaxy surveys will usher in a new era of high precision cosmology.
They will increasingly rely on the galaxy bispectrum to provide improved constraints
on the key parameters of a cosmological model to ...