Cosmology-general

• Introduction to Cosmology at the MAP home page.
• Level5 Knowledge Base on Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology of NASA/IPAC, CalTech and OCIW
• Resources for Astronomy list
• Fundamental Issues in Cosmology by Joseph Silk
• Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
• What is theoretical cosmology?
• Comparisons of cosmological models
• Many web pages on cosmology, early universe and particle physics through ASTR 5720 Web Projects at the University of Colorada, Boulder (see also Andrew Hamilton's Advice about the Web page, which he put together for that course).
• The NAP's "Cosmology: a Research Briefing"
• Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars by Robert Nemiroff.
• PBS Mysteries of Deep Space timeline.
• Wayne Hu's home page and online review(s) of the CMB.
• Cosmology pages by M. White (this site)

Cosmology-specific topics
    CMB-Expansion of Universe- BBN-Dark Matter - Grav. Lensing-Structure Formation - Other-General/Special Relativity

• Cosmic Microwave Background
  • The Cosmic Rosetta Stone, adapted from an article in Physics Today.
  • A brief review of what we have learned from the CMB can be found at this URL.
  • From Microwave Anisotropies to Cosmology.
  • Douglas Scott's CMB page and CMB FAQ.
• Expansion of the Universe
  • The Hubble Expansion
• Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)
  • BBN Java calculator at U Washington.
  • Big bang nucleosynthesis and Origin of the elements.
  • A review of BBN by Tytler and collaborators.
• Dark Matter
  • Chris Miller's page on dark matter.
  • The question of dark matter
  • Hot dark matter
  • Finding Dark Matter, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Dec. 19, 2001
• Gravitational Lensing
  • Introduction to gravitational lensing by J. Cohn
  • Putting relativity to the test
• Structure Formation
  • Gravitational instability (with N-body movies) and Models of structure formation
  • A SciAm article by Steve Landy on large-scale structure.
  • Current and future galaxy surveys
  • Fly-through of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
• Other cosmology topics
  • S&T galaxy collision article
  • Galaxy clusters
  • Lyman alpha systems, by J. Cohn
• Special and General Relativity
  • A Virtual Trip to a Black Hole and a Neutron Star
  • A rotating Pulsar tutorial, with Java animations.
  • Gravity simulator and Why is the sky dark at night?

Some general astronomy references

• A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (TGSAA report).
• Starbase at the University of Surrey.

Collections of sites:

• List of educational resources at Sonoma State University
• UCSD astro ed site
• Guide to online schools Astronomy page.
• NASA HEASARC outreach page.

Advanced material

• The Impact of the Cosmic Microwave Background on Large Scale Structure, Comments on Astrophysics, 18(1996)289, astro-ph/9601170.
• Echoes of Gravity, General Relativity and Gravitation, 27(1995)1023, astro-ph/9505102.
• A CMB Polarization Primer

Lectures/Proceedings on the Web

• The Net Advance of Physics reviews and tutorials
• Steve Myers' Astro 12 notes.
• Astronomy 250: Introduction to Cosmology course web page by M. White
• J. Peacock's The New Astronomies class notes and The Big Bang class notes
• G. Bothun's Physics 410/510 (Modern Observational Cosmology) web page.
• Nick Kaiser's lectures.
• Lectures on by Inflationary Cosmology and Structure Formation and on Clustering of mass and galaxies by John Peacock
• Lectures on the big-bang and structure formation by Josh Frieman
• Lectures on cosmological dynamics by Ed Bertschinger
• Lectures on the CMB by Ted Bunn
• Lectures on the CMB by Max Tegmark
• Lectures on CMB anisotropies by James Bartlett

Bibliography

A bibliography of trade publications on cosmology can be found here.

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