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I've been looking for questions about dark matter, and I've read some very interesting answers. However, I desire too look into it deeply.

This is not actually a question. I'm asking the community to recommend interesting references to understanding dark matter and dark energy.

I accept all sort of references: notes, books, scientific papers etc.

Let us assume some background on classical physics, thermodynamics and basics about quantum theory.

Thanks in advance :)

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Someone flagged this as a list-question, which should be closed. Since it belongs to books, I kept it open for now. – Qmechanic♦ Dec 23 '12 at 22:29

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I'll give links to the three lectures by Kolb given at CERN:

  1. Dark Matter
  2. Dark Matter/Dark Energy
  3. Inflation

Good introductory lectures. Also quite entertaining.

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Thanks for these links – Serg Sep 28 '12 at 14:09
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found in the net:

Dark Energy : Theory and Observations, 491 pages by Luca Amendola and Shinji Tsujikawa

Dark Sky, Dark matter, 216 pages by J M Overduin ans P P Wesson

Does Dark Energy really exist ?, 9 pages by Thimoty Clifton and Pedro G Ferreira (... explanation: that our galaxy lies at the center of a giant cosmic void...)

No DE, an artifact of our measuring (a Chimera) : A relativistic time variation of matter/space fits both local and cosmic data, 14 pages by Alfredo Gouveia Oliveira and Rodrigo de Abreu

Good Luck

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I have a bachelor's in mathematics but I'm really interested in this topic. Do you have any advise concerning a strategy to understand the topic? What do I have to study first? – deps_stats Feb 28 '11 at 20:10
coded here: outrafisica.blogs.sapo.pt/2008/12 , read the 14 pages, enjoy the nice story of the universe from 'other' perspective outrafisica.blogs.sapo.pt (google reader and translator) from first to last. – Helder Velez Feb 28 '11 at 23:44
Off course to see it from other side (No DE) we first need other model as I pointed (14 pages never discussed). Then we need to know how to say no to the 491 pages. This step is longer to accomplish. It is need to know a bit about nuclear physics and to know what the measures mean. Understand how atoms can vary in a self-similar universe and how this influence the outcome. The Cosmological Constant: when Einstein wrote GR everyone presumed that the Univ was infinite in age and, beeing so, light had time to go attractive in one way and repulsive in the 'returns' in a closed univ. – Helder Velez Mar 1 '11 at 0:18
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You can follow the book "Particle and Astroparticle Physics by Utpal Sarkar,Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Pg-461".

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The Wikipedia article on dark matter is an okay overview of the reasons astronomers believe that dark matter exists. This isn't my field, but I found most of it understandable. Some of it was a bit too terse and jargon-filled. One paper Wikipedia links to is a review on the arXiv. You may also try searching the arXiv for dark matter reviews, and try to track down anything they reference. It appears that astro-ph is the place to go for dark matter papers, but a simple search gave me a huge number of references with no obvious way to sort through them.

EDIT: This is such a basic thing for astronomy and cosmology that I would expect intro textbooks to at least give enough information to help you find more. But I'm so far afield of this that I don't even know what the standard textbooks are.

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