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- Anthropic Principle, Eternal Inflation, the Multiverse and the Pan-Universe
- Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs)
- Bayesian Analysis
- Big Bang Era
- Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Cosmic Neutrino Background
- Cosmological Models
- Cosmology in General
- Dark Matter
- Dark Energy
- Galaxies
- History
- Hydrogen 21-Centimeter Line
- Inflation and Quantum Cosmology
- Large-Scale Structure
- Milky Way
- MOND
- Primordial Black Holes (PBHs)
- Primordial Fluctuations, Power Spectrum, Structure Growth,
Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs)
- Reionization
- Anthropic Principle, Eternal Inflation, the Multiverse and the Pan-Universe:
- Evolution of human cognition required Einstein's gravitational waves:
Bernard F. Schutz, Tsvi Piran, Patrick J. Sutton,
arXiv,
2025,
Mar05,
25 pages:
Research/Review: On
general relativity,
gravitational waves and
anthropic principle.
It serves as useful review of discussed concepts.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs):
- Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from galaxy surveys:
Paula S. Ferreira, Ribamar R. R. Reis,
arXiv,
2024,
Dec05,
20 pages:
Review: On
baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Bayesian Analysis:
- A Educational
Note on Bayesian Analysis in Dialogue Form:
David Jeffery, 2024, 12 pages:
Review: On
why Bayesian analysis
is a true theory.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Bayes Factors:
Kass, R.E., Raftery, A.E.: Bayes factors. J. Am. Stat. Ass. 90(430), 773--795 (1995)
1995,
24 pages: Review: On
Bayesian analysis.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- * | Bayesian inference: More than Bayes's theorem:
Thomas J. Loredo, Robert L. Wolpert,
arXiv,
2024,
Jun27,
35 pages:
Review: On
Bayesian analysis.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- ** | Bayesian Methods in Cosmology:
Roberto Trotta
(Trotta 2017,
Trotta R. 2017, arXiv:1701.01467),
arXiv,
2017,
Jan05,
86 pages:
Review: On
Bayesian inference (AKA Bayesian analysis)
in cosmology.
Probably pretty useful. I should teach it to make up half the course.
A more compact intro (without cosmology) is
Kass & Raftery, 1995.
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Keywords:
anthropic principle,
Bayesian inference
(see also
Bayes' theorem,
Bayesian probability,
Bayesian statistics,
Bayes factor (AKA Bayes K factor),
priors,
posteriors),
Boltzmann brain,
cold dark matter (CDM),
concordance model,
concordance model distance measures graph,
cosmological redshift,
cosmology,
dark energy,
dark matter,
expansion of the universe,
fine-tuned universe,
fundamental constants,
IceCube Neutrino Observatory,
IOP cosmological
parameters summary: bit dated,
metaphysical naturalism,
multiverse,
philosophical cosmology,
philosophy,
pocket universe,
Universe in Problems: lots of solutions,
etc.
- Big Bang Era:
- Antimatter:
Beatriz Gato-Rivera
arXiv,
2024,
Dec05,
14 pages:
Review: On
antimatter.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- * | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis:
Ryan Cooke
arXiv,
2024,
Sep06,
27 pages:
Review: On
Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN).
Note
Elizabeth Gibney, 2025 Mar26,
Nature, A A difference in the way matter and antimatter baryons decay
which could help to explain a major cosmic mystery.
See also
Wikipedia:
Antimatter: Origin and asymmetry.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Gravitational wave astronomy and the expansion history
of the Universe:
Massimo Giovannini,
arXiv,
2024,
Dec18,
91 pages:
Review: On
the
very early universe
(cosmic time t <∼ 10**(-12) s),
early universe
(cosmic time (10**(-12) s -- 377700(3200) y),
gravitational waves,
and more.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- BBN-simple: How to Bake a Universe-Sized Cake:
Aidan Meador-Woodruff, Dragan Huterer
arXiv,
2024,
Dec10,
16 pages:
Review: On
Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)
and how grad students themselves could do the
computer simulations.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmic Background Radiation, and the Cosmic Neutrino Background:
- The Cosmic Microwave Background -- Secondary Anisotropies:
Federico Bianchini, Abhishek S. Maniyar
arXiv,
2025,
Jan23,
25 pages:
Review: On
the cosmic microwave background (CMB) T = 2.7260(13) K
and its secondary anistropies for all reasons in on its way to us.
Recall, the CMB
is a special case of the
cosmic background radiation (CBR).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Cosmic Microwave Background: Spectral Distortions:
Jens Chluba
arXiv,
2025,
Jan26,
25 pages:
Review: On
the cosmic microwave background (CMB) T = 2.7260(13) K
and its spectral distortions.
Recall, the CMB
is a special case of the
cosmic background radiation (CBR).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Cosmic Neutrino Background:
Douglas Scott,
arXiv,
2024,
Feb26,
19 pages:
Review On
the cosmic neutrino background (CνB).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Cosmological Models:
-
A Heuristic Two-Dark-Energy-Components Model for Cosmic Scale Factor Evolution:
David Jeffery, 2025, Review/Research, in preparation, but lots of it is complete.
It is actually a review of
Friedmann equation models
with 3 density components for which analytic solutions exist.
-
Exact Two-Density Component Solutions for the Cosmic Scale Factor From a
General Approach Including a Simplified Exact Solution Formula for the Radiation-Matter Universe:
David Jeffery, 2025 xx, Review/Research, in preparation, but lots of it is complete.
- Some Times in Standard Cosmology:
Lukas Tobias Hergt, Douglas Scott,
arXiv,
2024,
Nov12,
11 pages:
Research: On
important cosmic time points in
the Λ-CDM model.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Gravitational Wave Cosmology:
Antonella Palmese, Simone Mastrogiovanni
arXiv,
2025,
Feb01,
20 pages:
Review: On
standard sirens
for determining
cosmological model and
cosmological model parameters .
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- * | Changing Redshifts caused by a Changing Expansion
Velocity of the Universe:
Nico Roos,
et al.
arXiv,
2024,
Oct11,
12 pages:
Review: On
acceleration of the
expansion of the universe:
i.e., redshift drift.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Cosmology in General:
- * | Future directions in cosmology:
N. Palanque-Delabrouille,
arXiv,
2024,
Nov06,
14 pages:
Review: On
cosmology.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Paper-and-pencil cosmological calculator,
Sergey V. Pilipenko
arXiv,
2021,
Mar21,
4 pages:
Review:
An update of cosmological lookup table
(Sergey V. Pilipenko, 2013).
for the
observable universe
based on the
Λ-CDM model
for
Λ-CDM model parameters
valid circa 2020.
The reference can also be written
Sergey V. Pilipenko, 2021,
Paper-and-pencil cosmological calculator, arXiv:1303.5961.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Forty years of the Ellis-Baldwin test:
Nathan Secrest,
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Jan11,
5 pages:
Review: On
the Ellis-Baldwin test of
the cosmological principle.
Conclusion, the
cosmological principle seems
in doubt.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing
observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics:
Eleonora Di Valentino,
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Apr02,
416 pages:
Review On
the future of advances in
cosmology.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Dark Matter:
- * | A Primer on Dark Matter:
Csaba Balazs,
et al.
arXiv,
2024,
Nov07,
15 pages:
Review: On
dark matter.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Mapping luminous and dark matter in the Universe:
Nora Elisa Chisari
arXiv,
arXiv,
2025,
Feb10,
28 pages:
Review: On
dark matter
and baryonic matter.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Non-particle dark matter:
Anne M. Green
arXiv,
2025,
Feb17,
13 pages:
Review: On
primordial black holes (PBHs)
and dark matter.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- * |
Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude:
Jie Wang (NAOC), Sownak Bose (CfA), Carlos S. Frenk,
et al.
Nature (journal)
2020,
Sep02
39 pages:
Research/Review:
On dark halos
from pure dark matter
simulations.
Their universal structure does not seem to agree with
Wagner 2020: Self-gravitating dark matter gets in shape
which gives a analytic universal structure (i.e.,
the Wagner profile).
It's closer to the
Einasto profile
than the
Navarro-Frenk-White profile (NFW profile).
On gravitational mechanics (GrM).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Dark Energy:
- * | Dark Energy:
Sergio Luigi Cacciatori,
et al.
arXiv,
2024,
Oct14,
35 pages:
Review: On
dark energy
and the
cosmological constant Λ.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Dark energy and cosmic acceleration:
Rodrigo von Marttens, Jailson Alcaniz
arXiv,
2025,
Feb02,
19 pages:
Review: On
dark energy
and the accelerating universe.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Galaxies:
- Early-Type Galaxies: Elliptical and S0 Galaxies,
or Fast and Slow Rotators:
Michele Cappellari,
arXiv,
2025,
Mar05,
31 pages:
Review: On
galaxies and
galaxy formation and evolution.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
Mirko Curti,
arXiv,
2025,
Apr11,
27 pages:
Review: On
cosmichemical evolution
in galaxies.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Cosmic quenching:
Gabriella De Lucia,
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Feb03,
29 pages:
Review: On
galaxy quenching
and
galaxy formation and evolution.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and Andromeda:
Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky,
et al.
arXiv,
2025
Feb10,
26 pages:
Review: On
the Local Group and its
dwarf galaxies.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies:
Kartheik G. Iyer,
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Feb24,
45 pages:
Review: On the
spectral energy distributions (SEDs)
of galaxies
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Formation of Globular Clusters:
J. M. Diederik Kruijssen
arXiv,
2025,
Jan27,
34 pages:
Review: On
galaxy formation and evolution
in the aspect of
globular clusters formation.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Semi-empirical Models of Galaxy Formation and Evolution:
Andrea Lapi,
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Feb18,
23 pages:
Review: On
galaxies and
galaxy formation and evolution.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Gas in Galaxies
Adam K. Leroy, Alberto D. Bolatto
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Apr10,
18 pages:
Review: On
interstellar medium (ISM) in
late-type galaxies (LTGs, AKA star-forming galaxies (SFGs)).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Morphological Classification of Galaxies:
Karen Masters
arXiv,
2025,
Feb13,
15 pages:
Review: On
galaxy morphological classification,
galaxies,
galaxy formation and evolution.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Observations of the First Galaxies in the Era of JWST:
Daniel P. Stark,
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Jan28,
49 pages:
Review: On
galaxy formation and evolution
for early galaxies and
super-early galaxies (z ≥ 10, cosmic t ⪅ 0.5 Gyr).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- History:
- Coming of Age of the Standard Model:
Roger Blandford,
et al.,
arXiv,
2020,
Feb28,
12 pages:
Review:
On the
standard model of cosmology (SMC, &Lambda-CDM model).
Compare to Scott 2018.
Latex formatted reference in
~jeffery/aastex/ref.html
at Scott (2018).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Legacy of Henrietta Leavitt:
A Re-analysis of the First Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation:
Louise Breuval, Caroline D. Huang, Adam G. Riess
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Feb24,
12 pages:
Review: On
Cepheids,
the period-luminosity
relation,
and Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868--1921).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Steven Weinberg: A Scientific Life:
C.P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
arXiv,
2025,
Feb16,
47 pages:
Review:
On the
Steven Weinberg (1933--2021).
See also
Burgess 2025,
"Reminiscences about Steven Weinberg (This Time it's Personal), 4 pages
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
-
The establishment of the Standard Cosmological Model through observations:
Ricardo T. Génova-Santos,
arXiv,
2020,
Jan22,
34 pages:
Review: On the
the Λ-CDM model.
Compare to
(Scott 2018).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Editorial note to "The beginning of the world
from the point of view of quantum theory":
Jean-Pierre Luminet
2011,
May31,
16 pages:
Popular:
On
Georges Lemaitre (1894--1966)
and the Lemaitre universe and the primeval atom.
For corrections, see
Livio 2011
on Hubble's law omission
and
O'Raifeartaigh, 2019, p. 13
on dark energy
and its negative pressure first use.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Einstein's cosmology review of 1933:
a new perspective on the Einstein-de Sitter model of the cosmos:
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Michael O'Keeffe, Werner Nahm, Simon Mitton
(O'Raifeartaigh et al. 2015),
arXiv,
2015,
Mar27
48 pages:
Historical review:
The early history of the
Einstein-de Sitter universe
and other early
cosmological models.
Latex formatted reference at
O'Raifeartaigh et al. (2015)
/ keywords_cosmology.html
- A new perspective on steady-state cosmology:
from Einstein to Hoyle:
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Simon Mitton,
arXiv,
2015,
Jun04,
22 pages:
On Albert Einstein (1879--1955),
Fred Hoyle (1915--2000), and
the steady state universe (presented 1948).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Einstein's 1917 Static Model of the Universe:
A Centennial Review:
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Michael O'Keeffe, Werner Nahm, Simon Mitton
(O'Raifeartaigh et al. 2017),
arXiv,
2017,
Nov18
60 pages:
Historical review:
The early history of the
Einstein universe (presented 1917),
cosmological constant.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Interrogating the legend of Einstein's "Biggest Blunder":
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Simon Mitton,
arXiv,
2019,
Feb27
38 pages:
Historical Review:
The history of the
Einstein's biggest blunder.
Yes, he probably said it.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the
Einstein World:
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh
(O'Raifeartaigh 2019
arXiv,
2019,
Jun19,
25 pages:
Research:
The early history of the
Einstein universe (presented 1917),
cosmological constant.
Seems just an update of
Einstein's 1917 Static Model of the Universe:
A Centennial Review: O'Raifeartaigh et al. 2017.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Eddington, Lemaitre and the discovery of the expanding universe:
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh,
arXiv,
2019,
Jul29,
8 pages:
Research:
On Arthur Eddington (1882--1944),
Georges Lemaitre (1894--1966),
and the discovery
of the expansion of the universe.
A topic in the history of astronomy.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Carl Wirtz' article from 1924 in Astronomische Nachrichten
on the radial motions of spiral nebulae:
Tom Richtler,
arXiv,
2024,
Nov14,
9 pages:
Research: On
Carl Wirtz (1876--1939),
another
precursors
Hubble's law.
Also a discussion of MOND.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- * | The Standard Model of Cosmology: A Skeptic's Guide:
Douglas Scott
(Scott 2018),
arXiv,
2018,
Apr04,
21 pages:
Review:
Good review on the Λ-CDM model current
status---before the fall?
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Keywords:
Big Bang,
black holes,
cold dark matter (CDM),
cosmic distance indicators,
cosmic distance ladder
cosmography,
cosmological constant Λ,
cosmological parameters,
cosmological redshift,
cosmology,
dark energy,
dark matter,
dynamical friction,
event horizon,
gravitational lensing
gravitational waves (gwaves),
gravitational-wave astronomy,
gravitational wave observation,
graviton,
intermediate-mass black hole,
IOP cosmological
parameters summary: bit dated,
Λ-CDM model,
Λ-CDM model distance measures graph,
LIGO,
X-ray binaries,
primordial black holes,
Universe in Problems: lots of solutions,
etc.
- Hydrogen 21-Centimeter Line:
- Cosmology with HI:
Hamsa Padmanabhan
arXiv,
2024,
Nov12,
16 pages:
Review: On
neutral atomic hydrogen gas (H I)
and the Lyman-alpha line
and the hydrogen 21-centimeter line
in cosmology.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Inflation and Quantum Cosmology:
- On Legacy of Starobinsky Inflation:
Sergei V. Ketov
arXiv,
2025,
Jan11,
20 pages:
Review: On
inflation,
Starobinsky inflation,
and
Alexei Starobinsky (1948--2023).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Large-Scale Structure:
- Cosmology with Cosmic Voids:
Yan-Chuan Cai, Mark Neyrinck,
arXiv,
2025,
Mar28,
23 pages:
Review: On
the large-scale structure of the universe
and a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_%28astronomy%29">cosmic voids
.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The Intergalactic Medium:
Nicolas Tejos
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Apr17,
32 pages:
Review: On
the intergalactic medium (IGM).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Web:
Rita Tojeiro, Katarina Kraljic
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Mar27,
20 pages:
Review: On
the large-scale structure of the universe
and
cosmic web.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Hydrodynamic methods and sub-resolution models
for cosmological simulations:
Milena Valentini, Klaus Dolag
et al.
arXiv,
2025,
Sep25,
Feb10,
61 pages:
Review: On
large-scale structure of the universe
and
computer simulation thereof.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
Milky Way:
- Sagittarius A* -- The Milky Way Supermassive Black Hole:
Anna Ciurlo, Mark R. Morris,
arXiv,
2025,
Mar25,
17 pages:
Review: On
the Milky Way
and
Sagittarius A*, its
the supermassive black hole.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Milky Way Disk:
Daisuke Kawata,
et al.
arXiv,
2024,
Dec16,
22 pages:
Review: On
the Milky Way
and the Milky Way disk.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Milky Way dynamics in light of Gaia:
Jason A. S. Hunt, Eugene Vasiliev
arXiv,
2025,
Jan06,
74 pages:
Review: On
the Milky Way
in light of
Gaia spacecraft (mission 2013--2025?).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
MOND:
- Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND):
Benoit Famaey, Amel Durakovic,
arXiv,
2025,
Jan28,
20 pages:
Review: On
MOND.
There is NO version that accounts for all phenomena.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- The empirical laws of galaxy dynamics:
from gas kinematics to weak lensing:
Federico Lelli,
et al.
arXiv,
2024,
Nov04,
6 pages:
Research/Review: On
galaxy formation and evolution
and MOND (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
Primordial Black Holes (PBHs):
- * | Primordial black holes, a small review:
Alexandre Arbey
arXiv,
2024,
May14,
8 pages:
Review: On
primordial black holes (PBHs).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Primordial Black Holes:
Guillermo Ballesteros,
arXiv,
2025,
Feb18,
8 pages:
Review: On
primordial black holes (PBHs)
and dark matter.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Primordial Black Holes:
Bernard Carr, Florian Kuhnel,
arXiv,
2025,
Feb21,
12 pages:
Review: On
primordial black holes (PBHs)
and dark matter.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
Primordial Fluctuations, Power Spectrum, Structure Growth,
Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs):
- Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from galaxy surveys:
Paula S. Ferreira, Ribamar R. R. Reis,
arXiv,
2024,
Dec05,
20 pages:
Review: On
baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- *| Assessing the growth of structure over cosmic time
with CMB lensing:
Mathew S. Madhavacheril,
arXiv,
2024,
Nov12,
35 pages:
Review: On
structure formation
and CMB lensing
over cosmic time.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Weak Gravitational Lensing:
J. Prat, D. Bacon,
arXiv,
2025,
Jan14,
25 pages:
Review: On
weak gravitational lensing
in cosmology.
See also
primordial fluctuations
(especially
Wikipedia:
Primordial fluctuations: Formalism) and
matter power spectrum P(k).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
Reionization:
- Reionization and its sources:
Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury,
arXiv,
2025,
Feb17,
21 pages:
Review: On the
star formation and
galaxy formation and evolution
in the reionization era (AKA cosmic dawn:
cosmic time ∼ 0.150--1 Gyr, z∈∼[6,20]).
/ keywords_cosmology.html.
- Cosmology with HI:
Hamsa Padmanabhan
arXiv,
2024,
Nov12,
16 pages:
Review: On
neutral atomic hydrogen gas (H I)
and the Lyman-alpha line
and the hydrogen 21-centimeter line
in cosmology.
/ keywords_cosmology.html.