Science Resources from Eric Linder (return to home page)

Public Talk video (Science at the Theater, November 2008)
Dark Energy Rules the Universe (and why the dinosaurs don't)

Public Talk podcast (AstroMcGill podcast, April 2012)
What is (happening in) Cosmology

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

Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation school/conference (Cosmology on the Beach)

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 / 50 Ways to Leave Your Lambda

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: The Panoply of Observations
Dark Energy in Theory: The Garden of Models
Dark Energy in your Computer: The Array of Tools

Royal Society meeting: (February 2011)
Model Independent Tests of Cosmic Gravity

Beyond w: (November 2010)
CMB Probes of Dark Energy

Frontiers of Astronomy at Dome A, Antarctica: (Suzhou, July 2009)
Dark Energy in Dark Antarctica

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

Education website: UniverseAdventure.org
Videoglossary: Gravity

Recent Papers:

• Galileons on Trial
• Gaussian Process Cosmography
• The Direction of Gravity

• Paths of Gravity in Galileon Cosmology
• Lensing Time Delays and Cosmological Complementarity
• Testing Einstein Gravity with Cosmic Growth and Expansion
• Cosmographic Degeneracy
• Purely Kinetic Coupled Gravity
• The BigBOSS Experiment
• From Asymptotic Safety to Dark Energy
• Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample
• Mapping Growth and Gravity with Robust Redshift Space Distortions
• Cosmological and Astrophysical Neutrino Mass Measurements
• Limits on Dark Radiation, Early Dark Energy, and Relativistic Degrees of Freedom
• Model Independent Tests of Cosmic Gravity
• Weak Lensing Science, Surveys, and Systematics
• Correlated Supernova Systematics and Ground Based Surveys

• New Generation CMB B-mode Polarization Experiment: POLARBEAR
• Future CMB Constraints on Early, Cold, or Stressed Dark Energy
• Induced Gravity and the Attractor Dynamics of Dark Energy/Dark Matter
• Dark Before Light: Testing the Cosmic Expansion History through the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Frontiers of Dark Energy
• Confronting General Relativity with Further Cosmological Data
• Uniqueness of Current Cosmic Acceleration
• Einstein's Other Gravity and the Acceleration of the Universe
• Constraining Models of Dark Energy
• Reducing Zero-point Systematics in Dark Energy Supernova Experiments
• Spectra and Light Curves of Six Type Ia Supernovae at 0.511 < z < 1.12 and the Union2 Compilation
• Prospective Supernova Surveys from Dome A
• Testing General Relativity with Current Cosmological Data
• Measuring the Speed of Dark: Detecting Dark Energy Perturbations

• UFFO (Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory) Pathfinder
• Testing Standard Cosmology with Large Scale Structure
• Dark Energy Properties in DBI Theory
• Old Dark Energy
• An Intensive HST Survey for z>1 Supernovae by Targeting Galaxy Clusters
• Generating and Analyzing Constrained Dark Energy Equations of State and Systematics Functions
• 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
  

See ADS for my papers before 2003.

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.