Supplemental References for "The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe"

Bharat Ratra
Department of Physics, Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506
ratra@phys.ksu.edu

Michael S. Vogeley
Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
vogeley@drexel.edu

Here we provide supplemental references for the invited review article "The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe," which is published in the March, 2008 issue of PASP. Here you may also find a PDF file of the published article. The reference (in usual astro format) for this article is
Ratra, B., & Vogeley, M. S. 2008, PASP, 120, 235

Abstract

[Abstract from the full PASP article.]
We review the current standard model for the evolution of the Universe from an early inflationary epoch to the complex hierarchy of structure seen today. We summarize and provide key references for the following topics: observations of the expanding Universe; the hot early Universe and nucleosynthesis; theory and observations of the cosmic microwave background; Big Bang cosmology; inflation; dark matter and dark energy; theory of structure formation; the cold dark matter model; galaxy formation; cosmological simulations; observations of galaxies, clusters, and quasars; statistical measures of large-scale structure; and measurement of cosmological parameters. We conclude with discussion of some open questions in cosmology. This review is designed to provide a graduate student or other new worker in the field an introduction to the cosmological literature.

Contents

1  Introduction
A  Technical Books
    A.1  Textbooks
        A.1.1  Physical cosmology
        A.1.2  Specific topics in physical cosmology
        A.1.3  General relativity
        A.1.4  Quantum field theory
        A.1.5  Astroparticle physics
        A.1.6  Quantum fields in curved spacetime
        A.1.7  Standard model of particle physics and proposed extensions
    A.2  Collections of reprints of papers
    A.3  Summer school and other lecture notes
B  Historical and Biographical References
    B.1  Historically significant books
    B.2  History of cosmology
    B.3  Biography
C  Semi-popular Literature
    C.1  Books
        C.1.1  General relativity
        C.1.2  Cosmology
    C.2  Scientific American Articles
D  Internet Resources
    D.1  Preprints and published journal articles
    D.2  Observatories and satellite missions
    D.3  Some other useful webpages

1  Introduction

As a supplement to the review article "The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe," here we have compiled lists of key additional reference materials and links to web resources that will be useful for those who want to learn more about this vast topic. Here we provide lists of more technical books (including standard textbooks on cosmology and related topics), historical and biographical references, less technical books and journal articles, and web sites for major observatories and satellites.

A  Technical Books

This appendix lists books, reviews, and selected articles at an advanced level that will be useful to new researchers in the field. (See Apps. B and C for books and articles at a more introductory level.) We only list more recent books here; some historically significant books are listed in App. B and books listed below include references to earlier books. The subsections below are somewhat artificial, e.g., Peebles [1993] listed in the Physical cosmology subsection probably has the best introduction to general relativity for cosmology, and some of the books listed in the General relativity and Astroparticle physics subsections contain fairly detailed discussions of physical cosmology.

A.1  Textbooks

A.1.1  Physical cosmology

References

[Adams et al. 2004]
Adams, D. J., et al. 2004, An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Bothun 1998]
Bothun, G. 1998, Modern Cosmological Observations and Problems (London: Taylor & Francis)
[Coles & Lucchin 1995]
Coles, P., & Lucchin, F. 1995, Cosmology (Chichester: Wiley)
[Dodelson 2003]
Dodelson, S. 2003, Modern Cosmology (San Diego: Academic)
[Harrison 2001]
Harrison, E. 2001, Cosmology: The Science of the Universe, 2nd ed. (corrected) (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Liddle 2003]
Liddle, A. 2003, An Introduction to Modern Cosmology, 2nd ed. (Chichester: Wiley)
[Linder 1997]
Linder, E. V. 1997, First Principles of Cosmology (Harlow: Addison-Wesley)
[Narlikar 2002]
Narlikar, J. V. 2002, An Introduction to Cosmology (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Padmanabhan 1993]
Padmanabhan, T. 1993, Structure Formation in the Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Padmanabhan 1996]
Padmanabhan, T. 1996, Cosmology and Astrophysics through Problems (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Padmanabhan 2002]
Padmanabhan, T. 2002, Theoretical Astrophysics Vol. III: Galaxies and Cosmology (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Peacock 1999]
Peacock, J. A. 1999, Cosmological Physics (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Peebles 1980]
Peebles, P. J. E. 1980, The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)
[Peebles 1993]
Peebles, P. J. E. 1993, Principles of Physical Cosmology (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)
[Rich 2001]
Rich, J. 2001, Fundamentals of Cosmology (Berlin: Springer)
[Roos 2003(@]
Roos, M. 2003, Introduction to Cosmology, 3rd ed. (Chichester: Wiley)
[Rowan-Robinson 2004]
Rowan-Robinson, M. 2004, Cosmology, 4th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon)
[Ryden 2003]
Ryden, B. 2003, Introduction to Cosmology (San Francisco: Addison Wesley)
[Zel'dovich & Novikov 1983]
Zel'dovich, Ya. B., & Novikov, I. D. 1983, Relativistic Astrophysics. Vol. 2: The Structure and Evolution of the Universe (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago)

A.1.2  Specific topics in physical cosmology

References

[Longair 2000]
Longair, M. S. 2000, Galaxy Formation (Berlin: Springer)
[Partridge 1995]
Partridge, R. B. 1995, 3 K: The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Rowan-Robinson 1985]
Rowan-Robinson, M. 1985, The Cosmological Distance Ladder: Distance and Time in the Universe (New York: Freeman). Review of the more classical methods used to establish the distance scale.
[Spinrad 2005]
Spinrad, H. 2005, Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Berlin: Springer). A nice introduction that could have been proofread a little more carefully.
[Webb 1999]
Webb, S. 1999, Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder (Chichester: Springer-Praxis). Discussion of methods for measuring distances.

A.1.3  General relativity

We are biased here, in that we have picked treatments relevant for cosmology.

References

[Berry 1976]
Berry, M. 1976, Principles of Cosmology and Gravitation (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Carroll 2004]
Carroll, S. M. 2004, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (San Francisco: Addison Wesley)
[d'Inverno 1992]
d'Inverno, R. 1992, Introducing Einstein's Relativity (Oxford: Oxford Univ.)
[Dirac 1996]
Dirac, P. A. M. 1996, General Theory of Relativity (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)
[Hartle 2003]
Hartle, J. B. 2003, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity (San Francisco: Addison Wesley)
[Hobson, Efstathiou, & Lasenby 2006]
Hobson, M. P., Efstathiou, G. P., & Lasenby, A. N. 2006, General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Landau & Lifshitz 1979]
Landau, L. D., & Lifshitz, E. M. 1979, The Classical Theory of Fields, 4th ed. (corrected) (Oxford: Pergamon)
[Lightman et al. 1975]
Lightman, A. P., Press, W. H., Price, R. H., & Teukolsky, S. A. 1975, Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)
[Misner, Thorne, & Wheeler 1973]
Misner, C. W., Thorne, K. S., & Wheeler, J. A. 1973, Gravitation (San Francisco: Freeman)
[Ohanian & Ruffini 1994]
Ohanian, H. C., & Ruffini, R. 1994, Gravitation and Spacetime, 2nd ed. (New York: Norton)
[Rindler 2001]
Rindler, W. 2001, Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (Oxford: Oxford Univ.)
[Schutz 1985]
Schutz, B. F. 1985, A First Course in General Relativity (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Taylor & Wheeler 2000]
Taylor, E. F., & Wheeler, J. A. 2000, Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity (San Francisco: Addison Wesley Longman)
[Weinberg 1972]
Weinberg, S. 1972, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity (New York: Wiley)

A.1.4  Quantum field theory

References

[Itzykson & Zuber 1980]
Itzykson, C., & Zuber, J. B. 1980, Quantum Field Theory (New York: McGraw-Hill)
[Mandl & Shaw 1993]
Mandl, F., & Shaw, G. 1993, Quantum Field Theory, revised ed. (Chichester: Wiley)
[Peskin & Schroeder 1995]
Peskin, M. E., & Schroeder, D. V. 1995, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Reading: Addison-Wesley)
[Ramond 1997]
Ramond, P. 1997, Field Theory: A Modern Primer, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Perseus)
[Ryder 1996]
Ryder, L. H. 1996, Quantum Field Theory, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Weinberg 1995]
Weinberg, S. 1995, The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. I: Foundations (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Weinberg 1996]
Weinberg, S. 1996, The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. II: Modern Applications (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Zee 2003]
Zee, A. 2003, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)

A.1.5  Astroparticle physics

Peebles [1993] and Peacock [1999] listed in App. A.1.1 also discuss some astroparticle physics.

References

[Bergström & Goobar 1999]
Bergström, L., & Goobar, A. 1999, Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (Chichester: Wiley)
[Bernstein 1995]
Bernstein, J. 1995, An Introduction to Cosmology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall)
[Kolb & Turner 1990]
Kolb, E. W., & Turner, M. S. 1990, The Early Universe (Redwood City: Addison-Wesley)
[Liddle & Lyth 2000]
Liddle, A. R., & Lyth, D. H. 2000, Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Linde 1990]
Linde, A. 1990, Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology (Chur: Harwood Academic)
[Mukhanov 2005]
Mukhanov, V. 2005, Physical Foundations of Cosmology (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Perkins 2003]
Perkins, D. 2003, Particle Astrophysics (Oxford: Oxford Univ.)
[Vilenkin & Shellard 1994]
Vilenkin, A., & Shellard, E. P. S. 1994, Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)

A.1.6  Quantum fields in curved spacetime

References

[Birrell & Davies 1982]
Birrell, N. D., & Davies, P. C. W. 1982, Quantum Fields in Curved Space (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Fulling 1989]
Fulling, S. A. 1989, Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)

A.1.7  Standard model of particle physics and proposed extensions

References

[Aitchison & Hey 1996]
Aitchison, I. J. R., & Hey, A.J. 1996, Gauge Theories in Particle Physics, 2nd ed. (corrected) (Bristol: Institute of Physics)
[Cheng & Li 1984]
Cheng, T. P., & Li, L. F. 1984, Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics (New York: Oxford)
[Collins, Martin, & Squires 1989]
Collins, P. D. B., Martin, A. D., & Squires, E. J. 1989, Particle Physics and Cosmology (New York: Wiley)
[Cottingham & Greenwood 1998]
Cottingham, W. N., & Greenwood, D. A. 1998, An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Donoghue, Golowich, & Holstein 1992]
Donoghue, J. F., Golowich, E., & Holstein, B. R. 1992, Dynamics of the Standard Model (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Green, Schwarz, & Witten 1987]
Green, M. B., Schwarz, J. H., & Witten, E. 1987, Superstring Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Kane 1993]
Kane, G. 1993, Modern Elementary Particle Physics: The Fundamental Particles and Forces?, updated ed. (Reading: Addison-Wesley)
[Perkins 2000]
Perkins, D. H. 2000, Introduction to High-Energy Physics, 4th ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Polchinski 1998]
Polchinski, J. 1998, String Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Quigg 1983]
Quigg, C. 1983, Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions (Reading: Benjamin-Cummings)
[Ramond 1999]
Ramond, P. 1999, Journeys beyond the Standard Model (Cambridge: Perseus)
[Ross 1984]
Ross, G. G. 1984, Grand Unified Theories (Menlo Park: Benjamin-Cummings)
[Weinberg 2000]
Weinberg, S. 2000, The Quantum Theory of Fields. Vol. III: Supersymmetry (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)

A.2  Collections of reprints of papers

Lang & Gingerich [1979] and Bernstein & Feinberg [1986] reprint many of the classic cosmology papers. Abbott & Pi [1986] include some classic inflation reprints.

References

[Abbott & Pi 1986]
Abbott, L. F., & Pi, S.-Y., eds. 1986, Inflationary Cosmology (Singapore: World Scientific)
[Bernstein & Feinberg 1986]
Bernstein, J., & Feinberg, G., eds. 1986, Cosmological Constants: Papers in Modern Cosmology (New York: Columbia Univ.)
[Lang & Gingerich 1979]
Lang, K. R., & Gingerich, O., eds. 1979, A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ.)

A.3  Summer school and other lecture notes

The following works include lecture notes from summer schools and similar programs that are of a pedagogical nature at a level suitable for beginning graduate students. We restrict this list to the last decade or so as earlier developments in cosmology and astroparticle physics are discussed in detail in the textbooks listed above.

References

[Binétruy et al. 2000]
Binétruy, P., Schaeffer, R., Silk, J., & David, F., eds. 2000, The Primordial Universe: Les Houches Session LXXI (Berlin: Springer)
[Blanchard & Signore 2005]
Blanchard, A., & Signore, M., eds. 2005, Frontiers of the Universe: Cosmology 2003 (Berlin: Springer)
[Colless 2005]
Colless, M., ed. 2005, The New Cosmology (Singapore: World Scientific)
[Crittenden & Turok 2001]
Crittenden, R. G., & Turok, N. G., eds. 2001, Structure Formation in the Universe (Dordrecht: Kluwer)
[Dekel & Ostriker 1999]
Dekel, A., & Ostriker, J. P., eds. 1999, Formation of Structure in the Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Kochanek, Schneider, & Wambsganss 2006]
Kochanek, C. S., Schneider, P., & Wambsganss, J. 2006, Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 33 (Berlin: Springer)
[Lachièze-Rey 1999]
Lachièze-Rey, M. ed. 1999, Theoretical and Observational Cosmology (Dordrecht: Kluwer). Particularly useful for lectures on general relativity and gravitational lensing.
[Martínez-González & Sanz 1996]
Martínez-González, E., & Sanz, J. L., eds. 1996, The Universe at High-z, Large-Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background (Berlin: Springer)
[Pérez-Fournon et al. 2003]
Pérez-Fournon, I., Balcells, M., Moreno-Insertis, F., & Sánchez, F., eds. 2003, Galaxies at High Redshift (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.). Lectures by leading high-redshift galaxy observers.
[Sandage, Kron, & Longair 1995]
Sandage, A. R., Kron, R. G., & Longair, M. S. 1995, The Deep Universe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 23 (Berlin: Springer)
[Schaeffer et al. 1996]
Schaeffer, R., Silk, J., Spiro, M., & Zinn-Justin, J., eds. 1996, Cosmology and Large Scale Structure: Les Houches Session LX (Amsterdam: Elsevier)

B  Historical and Biographical References

B.1  Historically significant books

We list here some books that played an important role in the development of the field.

References

[Bondi 1960]
Bondi, H. 1960, Cosmology, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Dicke 1970]
Dicke, R. H. 1970, Gravitation and the Universe (Philadelphia: American Philo. Soc.)
[Gamow 1952]
Gamow, G. 1952, The Creation of the Universe (New York: Viking). A semi-popular, fascinating, and widely-read introduction to the cosmology and astrophysics of the 1940's. Also discusses a number of ideas that are now known to be incorrect.
[Hubble 1958]
Hubble, E. 1958, The Realm of the Nebulae (New York: Dover)
[Peebles 1971]
Peebles, P. J. E. 1971, Physical Cosmology (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)

B.2  History of cosmology

North [1990] is an early review of the history of the classical period of modern cosmology, through to the 1950's. Berendzen et al. [1976] and Smith, [1982] are less technical accounts of how the scale of our Milky Way galaxy and the distances to external galaxies came to be established, with emphasis on the developments during the first three decades of the 1900's. Kragh [1996] is a history of modern cosmology through to the late 1960's, with some emphasis on how the Big Bang Model gradually gained acceptance and the steady state model faded away. Bertotti et al. [1990] contains articles from a conference on the history of cosmology; McCrea's article is beautiful.

References

[Berendzen et al. 1976]
Berendzen, R., Hart, R., & Seeley, D. 1976, Man Discovers the Galaxies (New York: Science History)
[Bertotti et al. 1990]
Bertotti, B., Balbinot, R., Bergia, S., & Messina, A., eds. 1990, Modern Cosmology in Retrospect (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Kragh 1996]
Kragh, H. 1996, Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe (Princeton: Princeton Univ.)
[North 1990]
North, J. D. 1990, The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology (New York: Dover)
[Smith 1982]
Smith, R. W. 1982, The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's `Great Debate' 1900-1931 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)

B.3  Biography

The history and context of some of the developments in cosmology may be traced through biographies of some of the prominent developers of the field.

References

[Bernstein 1984]
Bernstein, J. 1984, Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age (New York: Scribner's Sons). Includes chapters on Penzias and Wilson.
[Chandrasekhar 1983]
Chandrasekhar, S. 1983, Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of his Time (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Christianson 1995]
Christianson, G. E. 1995, Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
[Gamow 1970]
Gamow, G. 1970, My World Line: An Informal Autobiography (New York: Viking)
[Godart & Heller 1985]
Godart, O., & Heller, M. 1985, Cosmology of Lemaître (Tucson: Pachart Publishing House). A scientific biography of Lemaître's cosmological research; O. G. was a scientific colleague and collaborator.
[Gregory 2005]
Gregory, J. 2005, Fred Hoyle's Universe (Oxford: Oxford Univ.)
[Hoyle 1994]
Hoyle, F. 1994, Home is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life (Mill Valley: University Science Books)
[Lightman & Brawer 1990]
Lightman, A., & Brawer, R. 1990, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (Cambridge: Harvard Univ.). A collection of interviews of some modern cosmologists, astronomers, astroparticle physicists, and general relativists. Gives an interesting overview of cosmology in the mid- to late-1980's when the inflation picture started to profoundly affect cosmological thought.
[McCrea 1972]
McCrea, W. H. 1972, J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 82 (3), 178. De Sitter, along with Einstein, Friedmann, and Lemaître, laid the foundations of theoretical cosmology; he was the only astronomer of the four. A book-length biography of de Sitter does not appear to exist; this would be of some interest.
[Mitton 2005]
Mitton, S. 2005, Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science (London: Aurum)
[Pais 1982]
Pais, A. 1982, `Subtle is the Lord...'-The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein (Oxford: Clarendon)
[Sharov & Novikov 1993]
Sharov, A. S., & Novikov, I. D. 1993, Edwin Hubble, the Discoverer of the Big Bang Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)
[Tropp et al. 1993]
Tropp, E. A., Frenkel, V. Ya., & Chernin, A. D. 1993, Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man Who Made the Universe Expand (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.)

C  Semi-popular Literature

C.1  Books

There are a number of good semi-popular books that provide a fast introduction to cosmology and related fields.

C.1.1  General relativity

References

[Geroch 1978]
Geroch, R. 1978, General Relativity from A to B (Chicago: Univ. Chicago)
[Schwinger 1986]
Schwinger, J. 1986, Einstein's Legacy (New York: Freeman)
[Thorne 1994]
Thorne, K. S. 1994, From Black Holes to Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (New York: Norton). No Kip, Stephen Hawking did not break into your Caltech office in June 1990 (p. 315) to affix a thumbprint to, and so concede losing, the bet: one of us let him in!
[Wheeler 1990]
Wheeler, J. A. 1990, A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (New York: Freeman)
[Will 1986]
Will, C. M. 1986, Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test (New York: Basic Books)

C.1.2  Cosmology

Chown [1993], Smoot & Davidson [1993], and Mather & Boslough [1996] discuss the COBE CMB observations and should be read together. Goldsmith [2000] and Kirshner [2002] review the discovery of accelerated expansion of the Universe and so dark energy. Wagoner & Goldsmith [1983] and Weinberg [1993] are nice introductions to the more established parts of cosmology; out of date in parts but still worth the read.

References

[Alpher & Herman 2001]
Alpher, R. A., & Herman, R. 2001, Genesis of the Big Bang (Oxford: Oxford Univ.). The story of the Big Bang Model, told by two of the earliest explorers.
[Bartusiak 1993]
Bartusiak, M. 1993, Through a Universe Darkly: A Cosmic Tale of Ancient Ethers, Dark Matter, and the Fate of the Universe (New York: Harper Collins). A popular, informal, introductory discussion of dark matter and related issues. Out of date in parts.
[Chown 1993]
Chown, M. 1993, Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples (London: Arrow Books)
[Chown 2001]
Chown, M. 2001, The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms (Oxford: Oxford Univ.). An introduction to stellar and cosmological nucleosynthesis.
[Coles 1999]
Coles, P., ed. 1999, The Routledge Critical Dictionary of the New Cosmology (New York: Routledge). Six extended articles reviewing various parts of cosmology followed by an extensive alphabetized summary of terms, themes, and people in cosmology.
[Coles 2001]
Coles, P. 2001, Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford Univ.)
[Goldsmith 2000]
Goldsmith, D. 2000, The Runaway Universe: The Race to Find the Future of the Cosmos (Cambridge: Perseus Books)
[Guth 1997]
Guth, A. H. 1997, The Inflationary Universe (Reading: Helix Books). An introduction to cosmology and astroparticle physics and a personal account of the development of inflation.
[Harrison 1987]
Harrison, E. 1987, Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe (Cambridge: Harvard Univ.). An introduction to cosmology from the viewpoint of Olbers's paradox.
[Johnson 2005]
Johnson, G. 2005, Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (New York: Norton). An accessible discussion of how Leavitt's Cepheid variable star period-luminosity relation allowed large cosmological distances to be measured.
[Kirshner 2002]
Kirshner, R. P. 2002, The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Cosmos (Princeton: Princeton Univ.). Those who have not had the good fortune of attending a famous east coast university which started out as a divinity school might need a dictionary to help read this one!
[Krauss 2000]
Krauss, L. 2000, Quintessence: The Mystery of the Missing Mass in the Universe (New York: Basic Books). A detailed and challenging introduction to dark matter, including experiments designed to detect it.
[Lederman & Schramm 1989]
Lederman, L. M., & Schramm, D. N. 1989, From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (New York: Freeman). An overview of particle physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology to the end of the 1980's. Out of date in parts.
[Lightman 1991]
Lightman, A. 1991, Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe (Cambridge: Harvard Univ.). A broad overview of historical cosmologies.
[Longair 1996]
Longair, M. S. 1996, Our Evolving Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.). Beautifully illustrated introductory review of modern astronomy and cosmology.
[Mather & Boslough 1996]
Mather, J. C., & Boslough, J. 1996, The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe (New York: Basic Books)
[Osserman 1995]
Osserman, R. 1995, Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos (New York: Doubleday). An introduction to some of the geometrical ideas used in cosmology.
[Padmanabhan 1998]
Padmanabhan, T. 1998, After the First Three Minutes: The Story of our Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.). A thorough, but challenging, introduction to cosmology. Out of date in parts.
[Pirani & Roche 1993]
Pirani, F., & Roche, C. 1993, The Universe for Beginners (Cambridge: Icon Books). Cartoon history!
[Rowan-Robinson 1993]
Rowan-Robinson, M. 1993, Ripples in the Cosmos: A View Behind the Scenes of the New Cosmology (Oxford: Freeman). A personal introduction to some of the results from the IRAS and COBE space missions. Out of date in parts.
[Silk 1994]
Silk, J. 1994, A Short History of the Universe (New York: Freeman). A good book to use as a base for a "Cosmology for Poets" course although it is a little out of date. See comment on the related Silk [2005] below.
[Silk 2001]
Silk, J. 2001, The Big Bang, 3rd ed. (New York: Freeman). A good text for a "Cosmology for Poets with some Mathematical Ability" course.
[Silk 2005]
Silk, J. 2005, On the Shores of the Unknown: A Short History of the Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.). This is in large part an updated version of Silk [1994], but with significantly fewer illustrations.
[Singh 2004]
Singh, S. 2004, Big Bang: Origin of the Universe (New York: HarperCollins). A survey of the development of the Big Bang Model focusing on the period up to and including the mid 1960's discovery of the CMB
[Smoot & Davidson 1993]
Smoot, G., & Davidson, K. 1993, Wrinkles in Time (New York: Morrow)
[Thuan 1993]
Thuan, T. X. 1993, The Birth of the Universe: The Big Bang and Beyond (New York: Abrams). A beautifully illustrated introduction to cosmology and astrophysics.
[Thuan 1995]
Thuan, T. X. 1995, The Secret Melody: And Man Created the Universe (Oxford: Oxford Univ.). An introduction to cosmology as well as some astrophysics and particle physics. Also touches on some philosophical issues, more so than any other book cited in this subsection.
[Wagoner & Goldsmith 1983]
Wagoner, R. V., & Goldsmith, D. W. 1983, Cosmic Horizons: Understanding the Universe (New York: Freeman)
[Weinberg 1993]
Weinberg, S. 1993, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, updated ed. (New York: Basic Books)
[Zee 1989]
Zee, A. 1989, An Old Man's Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein's Universe (New York: Macmillan). A nice, somewhat heuristic, description of gravitational physics underlying cosmology. Out of date in parts.

C.2  Scientific American Articles

Scientific American has a tradition of publishing excellent introductory articles, written at a level accessible by a well-educated lay person, on many topics relevant for cosmology. Listed below are some of the more recent ones; these often cite earlier Scientific American articles. Scientific American occasionally publishes compilations where some of these articles have been updated; we do not list these here, except for one article that has not appeared elsewhere.

References

[Barger 2005]
Barger, A. J. 2005, Sci. Am., 292 (1), 46, "The Midlife Crisis of the Cosmos." The more recent past Universe.
[Bothun 1997]
Bothun, G. D. 1997, Sci. Am., 276 (2), 56, "The Ghostliest Galaxies." Low-surface-brightness galaxies.
[Caldwell & Kamionkowsi 2001]
Caldwell, R. R., & Kamionkowski, M. 2001, Sci. Am., 284 (1), 37, "Echoes from the Big Bang." Gravity waves from the early Universe.
[Cline 2003]
Cline, D. B. 2003, Sci. Am., 288 (3), 50, "The Search for Dark Matter."
[Conselice 2007]
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D  Internet Resources

D.1  Preprints and published journal articles

Preprints on cosmology, astrophysics, general relativity, and particle physics may be found at http://arXiv.org/. These include cosmology and astrophysics preprints listed at http://arXiv.org/archive/astro-ph, general relativity and gravitation preprints at http://arXiv.org/archive/gr-qc, phenomenological particle physics preprints listed at http://arXiv.org/archive/hep-ph, and more theoretical particle physics preprints at http://arXiv.org/archive/hep-th. The Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (ADS) at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ includes links to many published cosmology papers. The SPIRES database at SLAC at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ includes links to many preprints and published papers. Most journals also have their own webpages.

D.2  Observatories and satellite missions

In Tables 1-6 we list observatories and satellite missions most relevant for cosmology. Details of future observatories and missions are, of course, subject to change. In certain cases, to save space, national observatory facilities (e.g., NOAO) that include multiple telescopes or sites are given a single listing. The listing of CMB experiments is maintained by NASA.

D.3  Some other useful webpages

The NASA Extragalactic Database (NED), http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/, includes searchable extragalactic data, literature, and cosmological tools. Tony Banday's CMB Resources at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~banday/CMB.html; Ned Wright's Tutorial, http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm; and the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) site, http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/, provide useful content and links. Physical constants are tabulated at the Particle Data Group site, http://pdg.lbl.gov/, and at http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/constants/.
Table 1: Current ground-based optical/infrared observatories.
ObservatoryLocationWeb address
2 Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Mt. Hopkins, Arizona; Cerro Telolo, Chile http://pegasus.phast.umass.edu/
Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) Siding Spring, Australia http://www.aao.gov.au/
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Mauna Kea, Hawaii http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/
European Southern Observatory (ESO) Cerro Paranal and La Silla, Chile http://www.eso.org/
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Mt. Fowlkes, Texas http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/het/
Gran Telescopio Canarias La Palma, Spain http://www.gtc.iac.es/
Isaac Newton Group La Palma, Spainhttp://www.ing.iac.es/
W. M. Keck Observatory Mauna Kea, Hawaii http://www.keckobservatory.org/
Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Xinglong, China http://www.lamost.org/en/
Lick Observatory Mt. Hamilton, California http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/
Large Binocular Telescope Mt. Graham, Arizon http://www.lbto.org/
Magellan Telescopes Las Campanas, Chile http://www.ociw.edu/magellan/
MMT Observatory Mt. Hopkins, Arizona http://www.mmto.org/
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Arizona, Hawaii; Chile http://www.noao.edu/
Palomar Observatory Mt. Palomar, California http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Apache Point, New Mexico http://www.sdss.org/
Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) Cerro Pachón, Chile http://www.soartelescope.org/
Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) Sutherland, South Africa http://www.salt.ac.za/
Subaru Telescope Mauna Kea, Hawaii http://www.naoj.org/
Table 2: Future ground-based optical/infrared observatories.
ObservatoryLocationWeb address
Dark Energy Survey (DES, on CTIO 4 m telescope) Cerro Telolo, Chile http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/
Giant Magellan Telescope Las Campanas (?), Chile http://www.gmto.org/
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Cerro Pachón, Chile http://www.lsst.org/
Pan-STARRS Mauna Kea, Hawaii http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/
Thirty Meter Telescope TBD http://tmt.ucolick.org/
Table 3: Current and future ground-based radio/submm/mm observatories.
ObservatoryLocationWeb address
Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Cerro Toco, Chile http://www.physics.princeton.edu/act/
Arecibo Observatory Arecibo, Puerto Rico http://www.naic.edu/
Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Australia http://www.atnf.csiro.au/
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory Mauna Kea, Hawaii http://www.astro.caltech.edu/cso/
Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) Cedar Flat, California http://www.mmarray.org/
Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) Pune, India http://www.gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Mauna Kea, Hawaii http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/
Jodrell Bank Observatory United Kingdom http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Virginia, New Mexico; Chile http://www.nrao.edu/
South Pole Telescope Antarctica http://spt.uchicago.edu/
Westerbork Observatory Drenthe, Netherlands http://www.astron.nl/p/observing.htm
Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) Netherlands and Germany http://www.lofar.org/
Square Kilometer Array (SKA) TBD http://www.skatelescope.org/
Table 4: Comprehensive lists of and links to satellite and suborbital (ground-based and balloon-borne) CMB experiments.
Satellite:http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/space/
Suborbital:http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/suborbit/su_experiments.cfm
Table 5: Ongoing and (relatively) recent satellite missions.
SatelliteDurationWeb address
AKARI (ASTRO-F) 2006- http://astrof.open.ac.uk/
Chandra X-ray Observatory 1999- http://chandra.harvard.edu/
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) 1989-1993 http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) 1999-2007 http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) 2003- http://www.galex.caltech.edu/
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) 1990- http://www.stsci.edu/hst/
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) 1983-1984 http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/iras.html
Infared Space Observatory 1996-1998 http://www.iso.vilspa.esa.es/
International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) 2002- http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Integral/
ROSAT 1990-1999 http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/
Spitzer Space Telescope 2003- http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Suzaku (ASTRO-EII) 2005- http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/astro\_e2/index\_e.html
Swift 2004- http://www.nasa.gov/mission\_pages/swift/main/
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 2001- http://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/
XMM-Newton 1999- http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/
Table 6: Future satellite missions.
SatelliteLaunch DateWeb address
Constellation-X 2015+ http://constellation.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Herschel Space Observatory 2008 http://herschel.esac.esa.int/
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) 2013 http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) 2015+ http://lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/
NuSTAR 2009 http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/ 
Planck 2008 http://planck.esa.int/
WISE 2009 http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/ 
XEUS 2015+ http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=XEUS 


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