Science Resources from Eric Linder (return to home page)

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

Instituto Avanzado de Cosmologia winter school (Leon 2008)
Dark Energy In Theory
Dark Energy In Practice

Astroparticle Physics summer school (Nijmegen06)
Dark Energy: Accelerating the Universe
Dark Energy: Illuminating the Dark
Dark Energy: Extending Einstein

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]
The History and Fate of the Universe (June 2004 at DOE HQ and OSTP/OMB)

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

Education website: UniverseAdventure.org

Recent Papers:

• 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.