Cosmology

Textbooks + Longer Articles

• A Cosmology Workbook by Lloyd Knox; based on Physics 156 at the University of California, Davis
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (Cooke), The Cosmic Microwave Background: Spectral Distortions (Chluba), Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts (Glowacki & Lee), Cosmology with HI (Padmanabhan), Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters (Miyatake), Cosmology with Peculiar Velocity Surveys (Turner), Dark energy and cosmic acceleration (von Marttens & Alcaniz), Gravitational Wave Cosmology (Palmese & Mastrogiovanni), Power Spectrum, Bispectrum, 2- and 3-Point Correlation Function, and Beyond (Slepian, Kamelinejad, & Greco), and Reionization and its sources (Chakraborty & Choudhury) chapters from the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
• Weak Gravitational Lensing of the CMB (Lewis & Challinor)

Notebooks + Tutorials

• Materials from the CMB Analysis Summer School by Jeff McMahon and Renée Hložek
• Joe Zuntz’s materials from the University of Michigan Cosmology Summer School
• Methods for CMB map analysis – Sullivan, Hergt, & Scott 2024

Lecture Notes + Materials

• Yale’s undergraduate ASTR 170: Introduction to Cosmology for non-science majors by Frank van den Bosch
• Materials from the 2022 Summer School on CMB Detectors and Instrumentation at the University of Chicago
• Lecture Notes in Cosmology by Oliver F. Piattella
• The expanding universe: an introduction by Markus Pössel
• Problem sets by Nikolina (Niko) Šarčević
• CMB and Large Scale Structure Tutorials by Wayne Hu
• Lecture notes from graduate Computational Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Moritz Münchmeyer
• Lectures on “Cosmological Correlations” by Daniel Baumann and Austin Joyce
• Field-level inference in cosmology by Florent Leclerq – lecture notes from the Les Houches Summer School on the Dark Universe

Visualizations

• The Hunt for Dark Matter – interactive gravitational lensing demo
• Interactive visualizations by David Kirkby
• Video illustrations by David Kirkby
• Colossus Cosmology Calculator by Erik Chou and Benedikt Diemer

Other Resources

• Comprehensive site linking to talks, lectures, notes/materials, and more by @jrdmb
• The IA Guide: A Breakdown of Intrinsic Alignment Formalisms – Lamman et al. (2023), an introduction to intrinsic alignment of galaxies