Useful Readings
I will post here links to useful references as appropriate.
The purpose of this list is to give you a guide to topics
that might not be easy to find in the reserve textbooks or otherwise.
- Galaxy morpholgy (Buta 2011)
- Notes on surface brightness
profiles (Dubinski 2006)
- Review of disk galaxy
dynamics (Sellwood 2011)
- The bar instability remains
problematic (Sellwood 2016)
- Radio astronomy & the interstellar medium
- HI emission
- Molecular lines
(e.g., CO as a proxy for H2)
- Laws of Galactic Rotation (McGaugh et al. 2020)
- Mass modeling (Athanassoula)
- Fitting a model to data (Hogg, Bovy, & Lang)
- Orbits & integrals of motion
(Barnes 2005)
- Galaxy modelling using actions
& angles (McMillan 2013)
- Enclosed mass and cosmic
overdensities (McGaugh 2011)
- NFW halos (Sellwood 2010)
- Galaxy Formation & annihilation signals (Diemand & Moore 2011)
- A brief but thorough description of the Coma Cluster (Colless 2006)
- Gravitational Lensing (Kuijken 2003)
- The WIMP
miracle (Feng et al. 2009 - also here)
- Introduction to WIMPs (Drees 2011)
- Cold Particle Dark Matter (Tuominen 2021)
- Contains the gem
- "...the CDM paradigm is appealing in light
of our present understanding of ordinary matter, as described by the Standard Model
(SM) of elementary particle interactions. The CDM paradigm puts dark matter within the
framework of beyond-SM models..."
- which appears to be a way of pretending that it is a good thing that dark matter particles have no place in the highly successful Standard Model, giving hope that there has to be new physics beyond the Standard Model when there is no evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model after decades of dedicated searches for physics beyond the Standard Model motivated by arguments like this. These searches have not been failures: they have not seen the predicted evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model after succeeding in reaching the sensitivity necessary to detect the predicted deviations from the Standard Model. This applies to dozens of remarkable dark matter deirect detection experiments, and also to particle collider results: the LHC has found no credible evidence for non-Standard Model behavior, either in the properties of the Higgs boson, or the decay of the Bs boson (once heralded as the "golden test" for supersymmetry), or in the direct production of dark matter particles for which it has ample energy were there WIMPs as originally envisioned.