resources for physics 161: extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology
papers
- astro-ph.CO
brand new papers in Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
- ADS abstract service
search for both published and arXiv papers, includes citations & cited by searches.
Glossaries
General Cosmology Websites
Software and Numerical Methods
Popular Cosmology Books
- The Big Bang, Joe Silk
- A Short History of the Universe, Joe Silk
- The Whole Shebang
, Timothy Ferris
- The Extravagant Universe, Robert Kirshner
- Our Cosmic Habitat, Martin Rees
- The Five Ages of the Universe, Fred Adams & Greg Laughlin
- The Accelerating Universe : Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos, Mario Livio
- The Once and Future Cosmos, Scienctific American
Technical Books (on 24-hr reserve in the physics library)
- Ryden: Introduction to Cosmology (2003) (main course text)
- Schneider: Extragalactic astrophysics and Cosmology
- Longair: Galaxy Formation (1998) (see link to ebook from coursework site)
- Dodelson: Modern Cosmology (2003) (more advanced text; see link to ebook from coursework site)
- Sparke and Gallagher: Galaxies in the Universe
- Carroll and Ostlie: Modern Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology (2007)
- Peacock: Cosmological Physics (1999)
- Maoz: Astrophysics in a Nutshell
- Padmanabahn: Structure Formation in the Universe (1993)
Statistics for Astronomy
- Wall & Jenkins: Practical Statistics for Astronomers
- Lupton: Statistics in Theory and Practice
Cosmology and galaxy formation movies
Popular Articles
- 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
- Making Sense of Modern Cosmology PJE Peebles, Scientific American, January 2001
- Dark Matter Vera Rubin, Scientific American, May 1998
- Introduction to the CMB Wayne Hu
- The Cosmic Symphony Wayne Hu and Martin White, Scientific American, February 2005
- Dark Energy: The Preposterous Universe, Sean Carroll, Sky & Telescope, March 2005
- From Slowdown to Speedup, Adam Riess & Michael Turner, Scientific American, February 2005
- Our Preposterous Universe, Sean Carroll
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The First Stars in the Universe Richard Larson and Volker Bromm,
Scientific American, December 2001
- The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Springel, Frenk & White,
Nature Review April 2006
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The Lifecycle of a Galaxy
Guinevere Kauffmann and Frank van den Bosch,
Scientific American, June 2002
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A Midlife Crisis in the Cosmos
Amy Barger
Scientific American, January 2005
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Supermassive Black Holes
Laura Ferrarese and David Merrit, Physics World, June 2002
Lecture notes and Summer Schools