Science Resources from Eric Linder (return to home page)

Textbook web pages for my book First Principles of Cosmology have assorted lectures, exercises, faqs, and discussions on cosmology.

Summer school lectures from Computing Our Universe (1998, 1999) are also online.

Cosmology Study Group: Basic Cosmology Formulas

Dark Energy FAQ
Dark Energy the Easy Way?
Design a Dark Energy Experiment
Lighter Side of Dark Energy: Dark Energy Flowchart / Acceleration Song / To Bin or Not To Bin

Resource Letter: Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
for American Association of Physics Teachers / American Journal of Physics

Scholarpedia article: Dark energy

Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation winter school (Los Cabos 2009)
Dark Energy in Space
Dark Energy in Theory
Dark Energy in your Computer

Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics: (Perimeter Institute, October 2005)
Dynamics of Dark Energy
[video, inexplicably made to only work with IE]

Cool Astronomy Lecture (Invited AAS talk):
Hidden Dimensions, Warped Gravity, and Dark Energy

DOE Science Colloquium: [flyer]

Overview article in CERN Courier: On the Trail of Dark Energy

Education website: UniverseAdventure.org

Recent Papers:

• Exponential Gravity
• Cosmological Constant Behavior in DBI Theory
• Extending the Gravitational Growth Framework
• CMB Lensing Constraints on Neutrinos and Dark Energy

• Being PC: Principal Components and Dark Energy
• Like vs. Like: Strategy and Improvements in Supernova Cosmology Systematics
• Aetherizing Lambda: Barotropic Fluids as Dark Energy
• A Cosmic Vision Beyond Einstein
• Halo Mass Functions in Early Dark Energy Cosmologies
• Can Early Dark Energy Be Detected in Non-Linear Structure?
• Calibrating Dark Energy
• Field Flows of Dark Energy
• Looking Beyond Lambda with the Union Supernova Compilation
• Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Datasets
• Shifting the Universe: Early Dark Energy and Standard Rulers
• Mapping the Cosmological Expansion (Review paper)

• Dark Energy: the Decade Ahead
• Gravitational Wave Sirens as a Triple Probe of Dark Energy
• To Bin or Not To Bin: Decorrelating the Cosmic Equation of State (or see alternate abstract)
• Redshift Distortions as a Probe of Gravity
• The Mirage of w=-1
• Resource Letter: Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe (Review paper)
• Kinetic k-essence and quintessence
• The Dynamics of Quintessence, The Quintessence of Dynamics (Review paper)
• Power Spectra to 1% Accuracy between Dynamical Dark Energy Cosmologies
• Tainted Evidence: Cosmological Model Selection vs. Fitting (published as Cosmological Model Selection: Statistics and Physics)
• Parameterized Beyond-Einstein Growth
• Universe's Skeleton Sketched - News & Views article in Nature

• Dark Energy with a Fine-toothed Comb (aka Dark Energy with Fine Redshift Sampling)
• Theory Challenges of the Accelerating Universe
• Importance of Supernovae at z<0.1 for Probing Dark Energy
• Separating Dark Physics from Physical Darkness: Minimalist Modified Gravity vs. Dark Energy
• Snapping Supernovae at z>1.7
• Cosmology with X-ray Cluster Baryons
• Biased Cosmology: Pivots, Parameters, and Figures of Merit
• Dark Energy in the Dark Ages
• The Paths of Quintessence

• On Oscillating Dark Energy
• Seeing Darkness: the New Cosmology
• Influence of Evolving Dark Energy on Cosmology
• Going Nonlinear with Dark Energy Cosmologies
• Curved Space or Curved Vacuum?
• Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP
• The Ups and Downs of Baryon Oscillations
• Cosmic Growth History and Expansion History
• The Limits of Quintessence
• How Many Dark Energy Parameters?
• Dealing with Dark Energy

• Safety in Numbers: Gravitational Lensing Degradation of the Luminosity Distance-Redshift Relation
• Dark Entropy: Holographic Cosmic Acceleration
• Is Dark Energy Dynamical? Prospects for an Answer
• Reconstructing and Deconstructing Dark Energy (also in pdf)
  
• Observing Dark Energy with SNAP (also in pdf)
  
• Supernova/Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of Dark Energy (also in pdf)
  
• Light Thoughts on Dark Energy (also in pdf)
  
• Probing Gravitation, Dark Energy, and Acceleration (also in pdf)
  
• Strong Gravitational Lensing and Dark Energy Complementarity (also in pdf)
  

• Testing the Cosmological Constant as a Candidate for Dark Energy (also in pdf)
  
• Mapping the Dark Energy Equation of State (also in pdf)
  
• Observational Bounds on Cosmic Doomsday (also in pdf)
  
• Cosmic Structure Growth and Dark Energy (also in pdf)
  
• Effects of Systematic Uncertainties on the Supernova Determination of Cosmological Parameters (also in pdf)
  
• Baryon Oscillations as a Cosmological Probe (also in pdf)
  
• Dark Energy, Expansion History of the Universe, and SNAP (also in pdf)
  
• Models for Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology (also in pdf)
  
• Cosmic Shear with Next Generation Redshift Surveys as a Cosmological Probe (also in pdf)
  
• Probing Dark Energy with SNAP (also in pdf)
  
• Exploring the Expansion History of the Universe (also in pdf)
  
• Importance of Supernovae at z>1.5 to Probe Dark Energy (also in pdf)
  
• Probing Dark Energy with Supernovae: Exploiting Complementarity with the Cosmic Microwave Background (also in pdf)
  
• Dark Energy and Dark Matter with SNAP: contribution to UCLA Dark Matter 2002 (also in pdf)
  
• Testing Consistency of Omega_L-Omega_M Plots and Flatness (also in pdf)
  
• Why are Supernovae at z>1 Needed to Probe Dark Energy: A Pictorial Primer (also in pdf)
  
• Dark Energy Inhomogeneity and SNAP (also in pdf)
  
• Understanding the Optimal Redshift Range for the Supernovae Hubble Diagram (also in pdf)
  
• Time Varying G and Type Ia Supernovae
  

Community Memos:
Dark Energy in the Next Generation (talks from my session at the April 2003 APS/DPF conference).
Resource Book on Dark Energy (editor). From Snowmass 2001.