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Reading Material

Home pages for the school lecturers (lecture notes etc.):

Avishai Dekel
Sanra M. Faber
Ofer lahav
Abraham Loeb
Dan Maoz
Joel R.Primack
Hans-Walter Rix
Max Tegmark
Michael Turner
Frank van den Bosch
Simon D.M. White


Recommended reading material in preparation for the winter school lectures:

Primack:
Primack 1
Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure with Cold Dark Matter, by Blumenthal, Faber, Primack, & Rees, 1984, Nature, 311, 517-525, bfpr.ps.gz
Whatever happened to hot dark matter?, by Primack, Beam Line, Fall 2001, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 50-57, HDM.ps
Primack 2
Status of Cold Dark Matter Cosmology, Primack, astro-ph/0205391
The Origin and Distribution of Angular Momemtum in Galaxies, Primack, astro-ph/0312547
Primack 3
Semi-Analytic Modelling of Galaxy Formation: The Local Universe, by Somerville & Primack, 1999, MNRAS, 310, 1087-1110, astro-ph/9802268
The Nature of High-Redshift Galaxies, by Somerville, Primack & faber, 2001, MNRAS, 320, 504-528, astro-ph/0006364

Turner:
Inflation:
Little and Lyth, Cosmological Inflation, Chs. 3 & 7
Basics: astro-ph/9704062
GWs: astro-ph/9607066, 0304370
Testing: astro-ph/0212281, 0302225
Dark Energy/Cosmic Acceleration:
Evidence: astro-ph/9805201, 9812133, 9904049, 0305008, 0309368
Dark Energy: astro-ph/0310342
New Physics: astro-ph/0306438, 0302510
Probing Dark Energy: astro-ph/0012510, astro-ph/0208100
Dark Matter:
BBN: astro-ph/0010171
CDM&Mond: astro-ph/0107284
Omega_M: astro-ph/0106035
Exotic CDM: astro-ph/0005210, 9909386
Lecture Notes:
Scanned lecture slides

Lahav:
A useful textbook is Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution by Martinez & Saar, 2002, Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Large-scale surveys and cosmic structure, lectures by Peacock (61 pages), astro-ph/0309240
Measuring our universe from galaxy redshift surveys, a review by Lahav & Suto (71 pages), astro-ph/0310642
The Cosmological Parameters, a review by Lahav & Liddle (26 pages), 2003, parameters.ps.gz

Loeb:
In the Beginning: The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe: review by Barkana & Loeb astro-ph/0010468 .
Lecture Notes:
Galaxies.ppt
BH.ppt

Faber:
Local galaxies:
Global Relationships Among the Physical Properties of Stellar Systems, Burstein et al., 1997, AJ, 114, 1365 astro-ph/9707037
The Broad-band Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.0 < z < 0.2, Blanton et al., 2003, ApJ, 594, 186 astro-ph/0209479
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. III. The Fundamental Plane, Bernardi et al., 2003, AJ, 125, 1866 astro-ph/0301626
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z = 0.1, Blanton et al., 2003, ApJ, 592, 819 astro-ph/0210215
Galaxies at z~1:
Morphological Number Counts and Redshift Distributions to I<26 from the Hubble Deep Field: Implications for the Evolution of Ellipticals, Spirals, and Irregulars, Driver et al., 1998, ApJ, 496, L93 astro-ph/9802092
Over 5000 Distant Early-Type Galaxies in COMBO-17: a Red Sequence and its Evolution since z~1, Bell et al. astro-ph/0303394
The DEEP Groth Strip Survey. IX. Evolution of the Fundamental Plane of Field Galaxies, Gebhardt et al., 2003, ApJ, 597, 239 astro-ph/0307242
Mergers and Starbursts:
Luminous Infrared Galaxies, Sanders & Mirabel, 1996, Ann Rev, 34, 749
Title: Gasdynamics and Starbursts in Major Mergers, Mihos & Hernquist, 1996, ApJ, 464, 641 astro-ph/9512099
Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence, Kennicutt, 1998, Ann Rev, 36, 189 astro-ph/9807187

Maoz:
Lensing:
A comprehensive textbook is "Gravitational Lenses" by Schneider, Ehlers, and Falco 1992.
A concise introduction by Wambsganss 2001
A very clear review by Narayan & Bartelmann 1997 (from the 1995/6 Jerusalem Winter School) JeruLect.pdf
A more recent review by Schneider 2003 astro-ph/0306465
Can gain some intuition re lensing optics by playing online with the interactive webtool by Prasenjit Saha Prasenjit Saha

White:
Dark matter evolution:
General: Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure, White, 1996, eds Schaeffer, R. et al (Les Houches Session LX) Elsevier, pp349-430.
Origin of angular momentum: White 1984, ApJ, 286, 38.
Press-Schechter/EPS theory:
Lacey & Cole 1993, MNRAS, 262, 627
Mo & White 1996, MNRAS, 282, 347
Mo & White 2002, MNRAS, 336, 112.
Simulations:
Efstathiou, Davis, White & Frenk 1985, ApJS, 57, 241
Hernquist & Katz 1989, ApJS, 70, 419
Springel, Yoshida, & White 2001, New Astronomy, 6, 79
Core structural evolution: Gao, Loeb, Peebles, White & Jenkins, 2004, astro-ph/0312499
SDSS galaxies:
Kauffmann et al 2003a, MNRAS, 341, 33 astro-ph/0204055
Kauffmann et al 2003b, MNRAS, 341, 54 astro-ph/0205070
Kauffmann et al 2003c, MNRAS, 346, 1055 astro-ph/0304239
Kauffmann et al 2004, MNRAS, submitted
Brinchmann et al 2004, MNRAS, submitted astro-ph/0311060
Tremonti et al 2005, ApJ, submitted

Rix:
High Redshift Objects:
The Most Distant Galaxies, by Spinrad, astro-ph/0308411
The Properties of High Redshift Galaxies, by Calzetti & Giavalisco, astro-ph/0012068
Galaxies and Intergalactic Matter at Redshift z~3: Overview, by Adelberger et al., 2003, ApJ, 584, 45, astro-ph/0210314

Tegmark:
Background is in the new book Modern Cosmology by Scott Dodelson.
All the needed physics is in the movies
Measuring spacetime: from big bang to black holes, by Tegmark, a review for Science, gives a brief big picture summary almost equation-free, astro-ph/0207199
The Standard Cosmological Model and CMB Anisotropies, by Bartlett, basic relativistic cosmology and linear perturbation theory astro-ph/9903260
Doppler peaks and all that: CMB anisotropies and what they can tell us, by Tegmark, 40 pages astro-ph/9511148
A CMB polarization primer, by Hu & White, astro-ph/9706147
Lecture Notes:
CMB.ps
Overview.ps

Dekel:
Feedback and the Fudamental Line of Low-Luminosity LSB/dwarf Galaxies, by Dekel & Woo, 2003, MNRAS, 344, 1131 astro-ph/0210454
Virial Shocks in Galactic Haloes?, by Birnboim & Dekel, 2003, MNRAS, 345, 349 astro-ph/0302161

van den Bosch:
Galics I: A hybrid N-body/semi-analytic model of hierarchical galaxy formation, by Hatton S., et al., 2003 astro-ph/0309186
The formation of galactic disc, Mo H.J., Mao S., White S.D.M., 1998, MNRAS, 295, 319 astro-ph/9707093
The origin of the density distribution of disc galaxies: a new problem for the standard model of disc formation, van den Bosch F.C., 2001, MNRAS, 327, 1334. astro-ph/0107195
Constraining galaxy formation and cosmology with the conditional luminosity function of galaxies, Yang X., Mo H.J., van den Bosch F.C., 2003, MNRAS, 339, 1057 astro-ph/0207019