Web Directory

» Dark Energy Survey
   Project aiming to understand why the universe is accelerating and not being slowed by the mass it contains.
   http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/

» Quintessence and the Cosmological Constant
   A review of the basic idea of the cosmological constant, and of proposals to replace it by a time-varying field. By Michael Doran and Christof Wetterich.
   http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205267

» Supernova Cosmology Project
   Homepage of a research project based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, dedicated to using observations of supernova explosions to measure the distance of far-away galaxies; this, in turn allows one to map the properties of cosmic expansion.
   http://supernova.lbl.gov/

» The Cosmological Constant
   Brief overview of the role of the cosmological constant in modern cosmology, using mathematics at an undergraduate level (and, rarely, beyond). Includes a list of technical articles and links. By Eli Michael (University of Colorado at Boulder).
   http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/Lambda/lambda.html