Useful Readings

Here are some references and links to useful references, by topic. This is not a required reading list, unless I assign a particular article in class.

Metrics

Peebles, chapters 4, 5, 12

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

The Hubble Constant

Bothun, chapter 2. Good, digestible discussion of the distance scale.
Peebles, chapter 5. A different perspective.
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.
Riess, A.G., et al. 1998, AJ, 116, 1009 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
Generally these sorts of reviews are written by people with a particular axe to grind. There are many people who don't like the cosmological constant, but they don't write reviews on it. Still, I think these are as reasonable as the personalities of cosmologists allow.

Primordial 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
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

Dark Matter

or more properly, mass discrepancies

Peebles, p. 47 and chapter 18
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

The MOND pages Alternatives to Dark Matter

Miscellaneous

Baryogenesis: Riotto, A. & Trodden, M. 1999, Ann. Rev. Nuc. Part. Sc.