Introduction

The PHY323 website is password protected, so in order to provide access to my material I've created this (I hope) temporary page. Please feel free to contact me for further information

Lecture handouts

• General lecture on Dark Matter, which I gave about 2/3 of in the week of March 9.
• Direct Detection of WIMPs part 1, lecture given on March 29.

Useful background info

These are a couple of notes I wrote mainly for Ed!

• Distances at Moderate Redshift: what to do if you are trying to calculate the distance of an object at redshift between about 0.05 and 1.
• Basics of Gravitational Lensing: which does what it says on the can (because I don't think Neil's lectures on gravitational lensing were very clear).

Suggestions for further reading

Material from the literature that might be useful. The University Library has electronic subscriptions to the Annual Review journals, so you should be able to download pdfs of these via MUSE.

• Jonathan Feng, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 48 (2010) 495.
  Review article on candidates for particle dark matter. Comprehensive, well written, and fairly up-to-date.
• Troy A. Porter, Robert P. Johnson, and Peter W. Graham, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 49 (2011) 155.
  Review of indirect dark matter detection via astrophysical signatures.
• S. J. Asztalos et al., Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 56 (2006) 293
  Review of axion dark matter. Les Rosenberg, one of the authors, was Ed's PhD supervisor.