Exploring the Dark Universe

Websites and Books of Interest

ESA/ESO Astro Toolkit

http://www.astroex.org/english/toolkit/pdf/2-toolkit-low.pdf

ESA/ESO Exercise: The Distance to M100 using Cepheid Variables

http://www.astroex.org/english/exercise2/pdf/4-exercise2-low.pdf

After the Big Bang

http://glast.sonoma.edu/~lynnc/presentations/afterBigBang/index.html

Modeling the Expansion of the Universe - Cosmic Questions Educator's Guide

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/download/CQEdGuide.pdf )

Determining the Hubble Constant

http://www.astro.washington.edu/labs/clearinghouse/labs/HubbleLawShort/lab.html

Measuring the Mass of the Galaxy NGC 2742 http://www.astro.washington.edu/labs/clearinghouse/labs/Darkmatter/index.html

Velocity Dispersions in Clusters of Galaxies

http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/clusters/ClustersMain.html

Einstein's Universe (Lensing Demonstration)

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/resources/JourneyBlackHole/LensingDemos.pdf

Large Scale Structure in the Hubble Deep Field

http://www.astro.washington.edu/labs/clearinghouse/labs/HDF/hdfmain.html

Absolute Magnitudes of Supernovae

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~clark/SNLab.html

Sky Image Processor (SIP)

http://www.phys.vt.edu/~jhs/SIP/

Recommended Books

Robert Kirshner, The Extravagant Universe

Mario Livio, The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos (Wiley Popular Science)

Donald Goldsmith, The Runaway Universe: The Race to Find the Future of the Cosmos (Helix Books)

Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Lisa Randall, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions