Cosmology from large-scale structure observations: a subjective review

Maciej Bilicki and Wojciech A. Hellwing

In these lecture notes we give a brief overview of cosmological inference from the observed large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe. After a general introduction, we briefly summarize the current status of the standard cosmological model, CDM, and then discuss a few general puzzles related to this otherwise successful model. Next, after a concise presentation of LSS properties, we describe various observational cosmological probes, such as baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions and weak gravitational lensing. We also provide examples of how the rapidly developing technique of cross-correlations of cosmological datasets is applied. Finally, we briefly mention the promise brought to cosmology by gravitational wave detections.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 4, 68-84 (2017)

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