Science Resources from Eric Linder (return to home page)

Science video (Chichen Itza, January 2012)
Looking to the Skies: Modern Cosmology and the Maya

Seminario público en español (Puebla, Mexico, Noviembre 2012)
La Historia y el Destino de Nuestro Universo

Public Talk video (Science at the Theater, April 2011)
New Light on Dark Energy

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

Intro Cosmology Lecture (Energetic Cosmos Laboratory, October 2016)
Cosmology and Cosmic Acceleration (pptx)
Cosmology and Cosmic Acceleration (YouTube)

Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation winter school (Mexico, December 2017)
Modified Gravity – Theory 1. Why and What?
Modified Gravity – Theory 2. How?
Modified Gravity – Theory 3. Where?

APCTP Inaugural Lecture, Dark Energy in a Dark Age series (Korea/online, June 2020)
All Cosmology, All the Time

Starobinsky 70th Fest (Korea, August 2018)
A Tale of Two Accelerations

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 ; Information Matrix Basics

Lighter Side of Dark Energy: Dark Energy Flowchart / Acceleration Song / To Bin or Not To Bin / 50 Ways to Leave Your Lambda

Scholarpedia article: Dark energy

Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology: (PPC 2015, Deadwood, South Dakota)
Review and Status of Dark Energy

II Jayme Tiomno School of Cosmology (Rio 2012)
Physics of Cosmic Acceleration 1. Cosmic Expansion and Growth
Physics of Cosmic Acceleration 2. Dark Energy as a Field
Physics of Cosmic Acceleration 3. Dark Energy as Gravity
Physics of Cosmic Acceleration 4. Chasing Down Cosmic Acceleration

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

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:

• Interpreting Dark Energy Data Away from Λ
• DESI 2024: Constraints on Physics-Focused Aspects of Dark Energy using DESI DR1 BAO Data
• Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid Mission
• DESI 2024: Reconstructing Dark Energy using Crossing Statistics with DESI DR1 BAO Data
• Model Independent Approach for Calculating Galaxy Rotation Curves for Low S/N MaNGA Galaxies
• Detecting Unresolved Lensed SNe Ia in LSST Using Blended Light Curves
• DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
• DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest
• DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars
• Testing α-Attractor Quintessential Inflation against CMB and Low Redshift Data

2023:

• Model Independent Dark Matter Properties from Cosmic Growth
• Union Through UNITY: Cosmology with 2,000 SNe Using a Unified Bayesian Framework
• Model Independent Reconstruction of Galaxy Stellar Velocity Map
• Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• Connecting Primordial Gravitational Waves and Dark Energy
• Benchmarks of Dark Energy
• Thermal Radiation from an Electron with Schwarzschild-Planck Acceleration
• Stopping to Reflect: Asymptotic Static Moving Mirrors as Quantum Analogs of Classical Radiation
• A Whole Cosmology View of the Hubble Constant

2022:

• Testing Cosmology with Double Source Lensing
• Cosmic Acceleration with and without Limits
• MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy
• A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5
• Constraining Scale Dependent Growth with Redshift Surveys
• Upon the Horizon's Verge: Thermal Particle Creation Between and Approaching Horizons
• Isogrowth Cosmology (and How to Map the Universe)
• Double Source Lensing Probing High Redshift Cosmology
• Real-time Cosmology with High Precision Spectroscopy and Astrometry
• Improved upper limit on degree-scale CMB B-mode polarization power from the 670 square-degree POLARBEAR survey
• Deep Learning Unresolved Lensed Lightcurves
• Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey
• Well Tempered Cosmology: Scales

2021:

• Quantum power: a Lorentz invariant approach to Hawking radiation
• Logarithmic Extensions to Inflation Universality Classes
• A Novel Approach for Calculating Galaxy Rotation Curves Using Spaxel Cross-correlation and Iterative Smoothing
• Out of One, Many: Distinguishing Time Delays from Lensed Supernovae
• Gravitational Wave Distances in Horndeski Cosmology
• Finite Thermal Particle Creation of Casimir Light
• Möbius Mirrors
• A Sparse Spectroscopic Supernova Survey
• The Rise of Dark Energy
• What is the Standard Cosmological Model?
• Horndessence: ΛCDM Cosmology from Modified Gravity
• HST See Change Program: I. Survey Design, Pipeline, and Supernova Discoveries
• Distinguishing Time Clustering of Astrophysical Bursts
• LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization
• Light and Airy: a Simple Solution for Relativistic Quantum Acceleration Radiation
• Ultra Fast Astronomy: Optimized Detection of Multimessenger Transients

• An Expansion of Well Tempered Gravity
• Cosmology Requirements on Supernova Photometric Redshift Systematics for Rubin LSST and Roman Space Telescope
• Fast Radio Burst Dispersion Measure Distribution as a Probe of Helium Reionization
• Be It Unresolved: Measuring Time Delays from Lensed Supernovae
• The Well-Tempered Cosmological Constant: Fugue in B♭
• The Well-Tempered Cosmological Constant: The Horndeski Variations
• CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves
• H0 Ex Machina: Vacuum Metamorphosis and Beyond H0
• Accelerating Boundary Analog of a Kerr Black Hole
• Measurement of the CMB E-mode Angular Power Spectrum at Subdegree Scales from 670 Square Degrees of POLARBEAR Data
• Mirror at the Edge of the Universe: Reflections on an Accelerated Boundary Correspondence with de Sitter Cosmology
• Limited Modified Gravity
• Schwarzschild Metric with Planck Length
• Determining H0 Model-Independently and Consistency Tests
• Detecting Helium Reionization with Fast Radio Bursts
• Exploring Early and Late Cosmology with Next Generation Surveys
• Updated Design of the CMB Polarization Experiment Satellite LiteBIRD

• Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum from Two Years of POLARBEAR Data
• Complementarity of Peculiar Velocity Surveys and Redshift Space Distortions for Testing Gravity
• Pole Dark Energy
• Euclid preparation: VII. Forecast validation for Euclid cosmological probes
• A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR
• Internal Delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization B-modes with the POLARBEAR Experiment
• Remnant-free Moving Mirror Model for Black Hole Radiation Field
• A Model-Independent Determination of the Hubble Constant from Lensed Quasars and Supernovae Using Gaussian Process
• Photometric Supernovae Redshift Systematics Requirements
• Debiasing Cosmic Gravitational Wave Sirens
• Modified Gravity and Dark Energy Models Beyond w(z)CDM Testable by LSST
• Modified Gravity Away from a ΛCDM Background
• Developments in Cosmic Growth and Gravitation
• Evidence for the Cross-correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from Polarbear and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam
• Inflation and Dark Energy from Spectroscopy at z>2
• On the Use of Fast Radio Burst Dispersion Measures as Distance Measures
• Testing Gravity Using Type Ia Supernovae Discovered by Next-Generation Wide-Field Imaging Surveys
• Cross-correlation of POLARBEAR CMB Polarization Lensing with High-z Sub-mm Herschel-ATLAS galaxies
• Direct Acceleration: Cosmic and Exoplanet Synergies
• No Run Gravity

• Will Cosmic Gravitational Wave Sirens Determine the Hubble Constant?
• Model Independent Expansion History from Supernovae: Deviation from ΛCDM?
• No Slip CMB
• The End of Cosmic Growth
• Simons Observatory: Science Goals and Forecasts
• Gravity's Islands: Parametrizing Horndeski Stability
• Finite Energy but Infinite Entropy Production from Moving Mirrors
• The Well-Tempered Cosmological Constant
• Dark Energy from α-Attractors: Phenomenology and Observational Constraints
• Cosmic Curvature Tested Directly from Observations
• No Slip Gravity

• Eternal and Evanescent Black Holes: It's All Done With Mirrors
• A Vacuum Phase Transition Solves H_0 Tension
• Subpercent Accurate Fitting of Modified Gravity Growth
• First Weak-lensing Results from "See Change": Quantifying Dark Matter in the Two z>1.5 High-redshift Galaxy Clusters SPT-CL J2040-4451 and IDCS J1426+3508
• The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Supernova Ia at Redshift 2.22
• Slicing the Vacuum: New Accelerating Mirror Solutions of the Dynamical Casimir Effect
• A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data
• Accelerated Parameter Estimation with DALEχ
• Constraining Dark Energy Dynamics in Extended Parameter Space
• Cosmic Growth Signatures of Modified Gravitational Strength
• Λ is Coming: Parametrizing Freezing Fields

• The Clustering of Galaxies in the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Constraining Modified Gravity
• The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design
• The DESI Experiment Part I: Science, Targeting, and Survey Design
• Cosmic Growth and Expansion Conjoined
• POLARBEAR-2: an Instrument for CMB Polarization Measurements
• Making Maps of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization for B-mode Studies: the POLARBEAR Example
• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Modified Gravity? Challenges in Connecting Theory and Observations
• Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with the Euclid Satellite
• Doubling Strong Lensing as a Cosmological Probe
• LiteBIRD: Mission Overview and Focal Plane Layout

• The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Experiments
• Is the Effective Theory of Dark Energy Effective?
• POLARBEAR Constraints on Cosmic Birefringence and Primordial Magnetic Fields
• CMB Lensing and Scale Dependent New Physics
• Consistent Modified Gravity Analysis of Anisotropic Galaxy Clustering using BOSS DR11
• Dark Energy from α-Attractors
• Tailoring Strong Lensing Cosmographic Observations
• Atmospheric Contamination for CMB Ground-based Observations
• Quintessence's Last Stand?

• Cosmological Leverage from the Matter Power Spectrum in the Presence of Baryon and Nonlinear Effects
• Extending the Supernova Hubble Diagram to z~1.5 with the Euclid Space Mission
• Strong Lens Time Delay Challenge: II. Results of TDC1
• Next Generation Strong Lensing Time Delay Estimation with Gaussian Processes
• Are Scalar and Tensor Deviations Related in Modified Gravity?
• Cosmological Tests using Redshift Space Clustering in BOSS DR11
• Chaining Mimes in the Dark: Dark Energy Scaling from Dark Matter to Acceleration
• A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR
• Giving Cosmic Redshift Drift a Whirl
• Inflationary Freedom and Cosmological Neutrino Constraints

• Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum with the POLARBEAR Experiment
• Evidence for Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization from Cross-correlation with the Cosmic Infrared Background
• Cosmological Constraints from the Anisotropic Clustering Analysis using BOSS DR9
• How Fabulous Is Fab 5 Cosmology?
• Strong Lens Time Delay Challenge: I. Experimental Design
• Inflation Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure
• Distance Probes of Dark Energy
• Neutrino Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure
• Growth of Cosmic Structure: Probing Dark Energy Beyond Expansion
• Exploiting Cross Correlations and Joint Analyses
• Novel Probes of Gravity and Dark Energy
• Redshift Space Distortion Reconstruction
• Dark Energy with Gravitational Lens Time Delays
• Cluster Probes of Dark Energy Clustering
• New Constraints on the Early Expansion History
• Robust Strong Lensing Time Delay Estimation
• Testing Dark Matter Clustering with Redshift Space Distortions

• Constraining Cosmic Expansion and Gravity with Galaxy Redshift Surveys
• Model Independent Tests of Cosmic Growth vs Expansion
• Power Spectrum Precision for Redshift Space Distortions
• Probing Dark Energy Anisotropy
• Model Independent Early Expansion History and Dark Energy
• Fab 5: Noncanonical Kinetic Gravity, Self Tuning, and Cosmic Acceleration
• By Dawn's Early Light: CMB Polarization Impact on Cosmological Constraints
• 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
• Observing Dark Energy with SNAP
• Supernova/Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of Dark Energy
• Light Thoughts on Dark Energy
• Probing Gravitation, Dark Energy, and Acceleration
• Strong Gravitational Lensing and Dark Energy Complementarity

• 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.

Dark Energy FAQ
Dark Energy the Easy Way?
Design a Dark Energy Experiment