Useful Readings

Here are some references and links to useful references, by topic.
This is not a required reading list, unless I explicitly assign a particular article.
The purpose of this list is simply to give you a guide to further reading for topics you find interesting or incomprehensible in the textbook.
See also on-line resources like Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial and calculator.

Books

There are some classic textbooks, as well as some important books critical of the standard cosmology:
Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology
Harrison: Cosmology: The Science of the Universe
Peacock: Cosmological Physics
Baumann: Cosmology
Sanders: Deconstructing Cosmology
Merritt: A Philosophical Approach to MOND

Metrics

Peebles, chapters 4, 5, 12
Peacock, chapter 3
Hogg, D.W. Distance Measures in Cosmology - a good distilation of the basics

Classic Tests

Sandage, A. 1988, ARA&A, 26, 561
Sandage, A. 1995, in The Deep Universe, Saas-Fee Advanced Course 23
Counts, Ellis, R.S. 1997, ARA&A, 35, 389
N(m), N(z): Koo, D., & Kron, R. 1992, ARA&A, 30, 613
Standard Candle: Riess et al., AJ, 116, 1009 SN Ia
Sanders, R.H. 2004, Second Aegean Summer School. Nice summary of the classic tests in the post-WMAP era.

The Hubble Constant

Bothun, chapter 2. Good, digestible discussion of the distance scale.
Peebles, chapter 5. A different perspective.
Peacock, chapter 5.
Binney & Merrifield, Galactic Astronomy, chapter 7.
Jacoby et al. 1992, PASP, 104, 599

The Age of the Universe

Vandenberg, D.A., Stetson, P.B., & Bolte, M. 1996, ARA&A, 34, 461 Globular Clusters
Binney & Merrifield, Galactic Astronomy, chapter 6.1.4.

For more details:
Chaboyer, B., Demarque, P., Kernan, P.J., Krauss, L. 1998, ApJ, 494, 96 but see also
Chaboyer, B., Sarajedini, A., & Demarque, P. 1992, ApJ, 394, 515
Oswalt, T.D., Smith, J.A., Wood, M.A., & Hintzen, P. 1996, Nature, 382, 692 White Dwarfs
Wood, M.A. 1992, ApJ, 386, 539
Nittler, L.R., & Cowsik, R. 1997, 1997, PRL, 78(2), 175 Isotopic composition of Interstellar Grains
Cowan et al. 1997, ApJ, 480, 246 Radioactive Decay Chronometers

The Density Paramter

Strauss, M.A., & Willick, J.A. 1995, Physics Reports, 261, 271

The Deceleration Parameter

Sandage, A.R. 1995, in The Deep Universe, Saas-Fee Advanced Course 23 A review of many things, including early attempts to measure q0.
McGaugh, S.S. 1996, Nature, 381, 483 A finite cosmological constant would require q0 ≈ −1/2. How crazy would that be?
Riess, A.G., et al. 1998, AJ, 116, 100 An application of the Standard Candle test with SN Ia which appears to favor negative q0 and a finite cosmological constant.

The Cosmological Constant

Carroll, S., Press, W.H., & Turner, E.L. 1992, ARA&A, 30, 499
Cohn, J.D. 1998, astro-ph/9807128

Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Tytler, D., O'Meara, J. M., Suzuki, N., & Lubin, D. 2000, Physica Scripta, T 85, 12
Olive, K.A. Primordial Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Boesgaard, A.M, & Steigman, G. 1985, ARA&A, 23, B
Copi, C.J., Schramm, D.N., & Turner, M.S. 1995, Science, 267, 192
There are many BBN references which all say more or less the same thing.

Cosmic Microwave Background

Peebles, chapter 6
Peacock, chapter 18
Baumann, chapter 7
Hu, W., Sugiyama, N., & Silk, J. 1997, Nature, 386, 37
White, M., Scott, D., & Silk, J. 1994, ARA&A, 32, 319

with interesting related subjects:
Suniaev, R.A., & Zeldovich Ia.B. 1980, ARA&A, 18, 537
Rephaeli, Y. 1995, ARA&A, 33, 541
Readhead, A.C.S., & Lawrence, C.R. 1992, ARA&A, 30, 653

Structure Formation

Ryden, chapter 11
Baumann, chapter 5
Willis, lecture notes
Peebles, The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Bertschinger, Les Houches lecture notes

Dark Matter

or more properly, acceleration discrepancies

Peebles, p. 47 and chapter 18
Peacock, chapter 12
Bothun, chapter 4

Trimble, V. 1987, ARA&A, 25, 425 Evidence for Dark Matter
Sanders, R.H. 1990, A&ARv, 2, 1 Evidence for and against Dark Matter
Ostriker, J.P. 1993, ARA&A, 25, 425 Cold Dark Matter
Carr, B. 1994, ARA&A, 32, 531 Baryonic Dark Matter
Gondolo, P. 2004, NATO ASI Non-Baryonic Dark Matter - a good introduction to the zoo of hypothetical particles

The MOND pages Alternatives to Dark Matter

Miscellaneous

Baryogenesis: Riotto, A. & Trodden, M. 1999, Ann. Rev. Nuc. Part. Sc.
A Skeptical View: Disney, M. 2000, Gen.Rel.Grav. 32, 1125,
and more recently, Modern Cosmology: Science or Folk Tale?

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