Massive neutrinos and cosmology

Introduction......Page 3
Neutrino oscillations and absolute neutrino mass searches......Page 5
Basics on relic neutrinos, including neutrino decoupling......Page 9
Extra radiation and the effective number of neutrinos......Page 13
Massive neutrinos as dark matter......Page 15
Massive neutrinos and cosmological perturbations......Page 16
Observables targets: definition of the power spectra......Page 18
Background evolution......Page 20
Gauge transformations and Einstein equations......Page 21
Linear perturbation theory in a neutrinoless Universe (pure CDM)......Page 25
Linear perturbation theory in presence of neutrinos (MDM)......Page 38
Summary of the neutrino mass effects......Page 60
Statistical methods for parameter inference from cosmological data......Page 67
CMB anisotropies......Page 71
Galaxy redshift surveys......Page 73
Lyman- forest......Page 76
Summary of current bounds......Page 77
Extra parameters......Page 79
Non-standard relic neutrinos......Page 81
Fisher matrix......Page 82
Future CMB experiments......Page 83
Future galaxy redshift surveys......Page 92
CMB weak lensing......Page 97
Galaxy weak lensing (cosmic shear)......Page 103
Galaxy cluster surveys......Page 107
Conclusions......Page 108
References......Page 111