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Cosmology
Textbooks
A Cosmology Workbook
by Lloyd Knox; based on Physics 156 at the University of California, Davis
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
(Cooke),
Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts
(Glowacki & Lee),
Cosmology with HI
(Padmanabhan),
Cosmology with Peculiar Velocity Surveys
(Turner) chapters from the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
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
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