futher reading about cosmology and galaxy formation
General: Websites
- WMAP Cosmology 101
- Cosmology Primer, Sean Carroll
- Cosmology: A Research Briefing, National Research Council
- Cosmology Basics, Martin White
- Cosmology Tutorial, Ned Wright
- Foundations of Modern Cosmology, John Hawley
- Cosmic Evolution, Wright Center
- Cosmology Glossary
- AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
- Seven Things Everyone Should Know about their Universe, Mike Turner
General: Books
- Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
, Charles Seife
- The Whole Shebang
- The Extravagant Universe
- Our Cosmic Habitat
- The Five Ages of the Universe
- The Accelerating Universe : Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos, Mario Livio
- The Once and Future Cosmos, Scienctific American
More specialized: lecture notes/summer schools/reviews
- Particle Data Group Reviews on Cosmology & Dark Matter
- Potsdam Supercomputational Cosmology Summer School 2006
- Ravi Sheth: Galaxy Formation lecture notes 2003
- Martin White: Large-Scale Structure minicourse, 2003
- David Weinberg: Jerusalem Winter School Lectures, 1997/98
- Simon White: Les Houches lecture notes 1993
- Varun Sahni: review article on dark matter and dark energy
Cosmology and galaxy formation movies
- Max-Plank Institute for Astrophysics
- Andrey Kravtsov
- Frank Summers
- Galaxy Dynamics Simulations, John Dubinsky
- Ben Moore's Group
Relating to Compton Lecture Topics
- Our Expanding Universe (Evidence for the Big Bang)
- WMAP Cosmology 101, Tests of the Big Bang
- Primordial Deuterium and the Big Bang, Craig Hogan; Scientific American, December 1996
- Misconceptions about the Big Bang, Charles Lineweaver & Tamara Davis; Scientific American, March 2005
- Cosmology Primer FAQ, Sean Carroll
- Making Sense of Modern Cosmology PJE Peebles, Scientific American, January 2001
- What is the Universe Made of? (Evidence for Dark Matter)
- WMAP Cosmology 101, Dark Matter
- Dark Matter, Vera Rubin Scientific American, May 1998
- Supersymmetry
- Rotation Curve Java Lab, Chris Mihos
- The Seeds of Galaxy Formation and the Developement of Structure (Inflation, Fluctuations in the CMB, and Large-Scale Structure)
- Introduction to the CMB, Wayne Hu
- The Cosmic Symphony, Wayne Hu and Martin White, Scientific American, February 2005
- Scientists See Clues to the Cosmos in the Echoes of the Big Bang, New York Times, February 2001
- Rocky Kolb, Inflation Talk
- Andrew Liddle, Introduction to Inflation(more advanced)
- Science Magazine: The Dark Side
- Structure Formation, KICP
- Comparison of Cosmological Models, Martin White
- Gravitational Instability, Martin White
- The Age, Shape and Expansion History of our Universe (Evidence for Dark Energy)
- Dark Energy: The Preposterous Universe, Sean Carroll, Sky & Telescope, March 2005
- From Slowdown to Speedup, Adam Riess & Michael Turner, Scientific American, February 2005
- Science Magazine "Breakthrough of the Year" 1998
- Our Preposterous Universe, Sean Carroll
- The Onset of Galaxy Formation (Gravitational Instability, Cooling, the First Stars, and Reionization)
- Star Light, Star Bright
- The First Stars in the Universe Richard Larson and Volker Bromm, Scientific American, December 2001
- Hubble glimpses early galaxy formation
- The Lifecycle of a Galaxy Guinevere Kauffmann and Frank van den Bosch, Scientific American, June 2002
- Creating the Galactic Zoo: Galaxy Interactions and the Hubble Sequence
- Galaxy Crash Lab
- A Midlife Crisis in the Cosmos Amy Barger Scientific American, January 2005
- Research Frontiers in Galaxy Formation
- Supermassive Black Holes Laura Ferrarese and David Merrit, Physics World, June 2002
- Beginning to End
- Five Ages of the Universe, Fathom Seminar
- The Five Ages of the Universe
- The Future of Structure Formation in a Universe with a Cosmological Constant
- Our Cosmic Habitat