resources for physics 362: grad cosmology
papers
- ADS abstract service
search for both published and arXiv papers, includes citations & cited by searches. - astro-ph
- Spires
General Cosmology Websites
- TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology
- Cosmology: A Research Briefing, National Research Council good review of the state of the field 13 years ago
- WMAP Cosmology 101
- Cosmology Primer, Sean Carroll
- My Compton Lectures: The Story of Galaxy Formation in Our Universe
- 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
Software and Numerical Methods
Tools and Codes
- LAMBDA coordinates & time converters
- CMBFAST Web Interface calculate CMB Cls and the Transfer function for your choice of cosmology
- Mass Function code (Darren Reed) calculates mass functions for several popular fitting functions
- Cvir model code (James Bullock) to calculate the concentration-mass relation
- Contra code (Oleg Gnedin) to calculate adiabatic contraction
- CosmoMC (Anthony Lewis) a Markov Chain Monte Carlo code for cosmology
- Halofit (Martin Kilbinger modified from Rob Smith) code implements fitting function for the non-linear power spectrum
- PM Code (Anatoly Klypin)
- CLF Model Code (Asantha Cooray)
Popular Cosmology Books
- The Big Bang, Joe Silk
- A Short History of the Universe, Joe Silk
- The Whole Shebang
, Timothy Ferris
- 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
Technical Books (on 24-hr reserve in the physics library)
- Peacock: Cosmological Physics (1999)
- Dodelson: Modern Cosmology (2003)
- Padmanabahn: Structure Formation in the Universe (1993)
- Padmanabahn: Theoretical Astrophysics III: Galaxies & Cosmology (2002)
- Binney & Tremaine: Galactic Dynamics (1987)
- Ryden: Introduction to Cosmology (2003) undergrad level, very clear
- Longair: Galaxy Formation (1998)
- Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology (1993)
- Peebles: The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (1980)
Statistics for Astronomy
- Wall & Jenkins: Practical Statistics for Astronomers
- Lupton: Statistics in Theory and Practice
Lecture notes and Summer Schools
- Potsdam Supercomputational Cosmology Summer School 2006 (Klypin, Kravtsov, Springel, Gnedin)
- Galaxy Formation lecture notes Ravi Sheth 2003
- Large-Scale Structure minicourse Martin White 2003
- Jerusalem Winter School Lectures David Weinberg 1997/98
- Dark Matter and Structure Formation in the Universe Joel Primack 1997
- Les Houches lecture notes Simon White 1993
- Computational Astrophysics Paul Ricker 2006
Review Articles (Technical)
- Particle Data Group Reviews on Cosmology, Dark Matter, and Cosmological Parameters
- A primer on hierarchical galaxy formation: the semi-analytic approach Baugh
- The Excursion Set Theory of Halo Mass Functions, Halo Clustering, and Halo Growth Zentner
- Large-Scale Structure of the Universe and Cosmological Perturbation Theory Bernardeau et al
- Dark Matter and Dark Energy Sahni
- Linear Redshift Distortions: A Review Hamilton
- Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe Bertschinger, Annual Reviews 1998
Cosmology and galaxy formation movies
- The Virgo Consortium
- KICP/Kravtsov Group
- Max-Plank Institute for Astrophysics
- Zurich/Moore Group
- via lactea
- UW N-body Shop
- LANL N-body Group
- Frank Summers
- Galaxy Dynamics Simulations, John Dubinsky
- A Trip Through the Universe (2dF)
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
- 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
- The Lifecycle of a Galaxy Guinevere Kauffmann and Frank van den Bosch, Scientific American, June 2002
- A Midlife Crisis in the Cosmos Amy Barger Scientific American, January 2005
- Supermassive Black Holes Laura Ferrarese and David Merrit, Physics World, June 2002