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---++ Solar System
   * GrQc:0412084 Cosmological effects in the local static frame - Michel Mizony (IGD), Marc Lachieze-Rey (PGC)


---++ highest redshift galaxies

   * AstroPh:0301096 The Discovery of Two Lyman-&alpha; Emitters Beyond Redshift 6 in the Subaru Deep Field - Kodaira et al.

---++ AGNs
   * AstroPh:0211114 blazars in Xrays
   * AstroPh:0211118 claim that radio loudness in AGNs does not depend on SuperMBH mass
   * AstroPh:0301094 radio lobes may cause: magnetic fields and spread of metals in the IGM, and star formation - Gopal-Krishna, Wiita 
   * AstroPh:0301447 AGNs in clusters - plasma physics in clusters - Eilek

---++ galaxy populations

   * AstroPh:0211080 - photometric redshifts of 6 million galaxies from the SloanDSS
   * AstroPh:0210643 - the FundamentalPlane at z=1.27 - massive galaxies at high redshift, EROs
   * AstroPh:0211068 - Phoenix Deep Survery - 2000 sources @1.4GHz to 60&micro;Jy in 4.56 sq.deg - estimated 0<z<1
   * AstroPh:0301457 - UCDs - ultra-compact-dwarfs - the result of a dwarf elliptical being stripped of 99% of its luminosity by tidal stripping inside of a cluster (Fornax cluster) - Gregg, Drinkwater et al.
   * AstroPh:0310661 - population evolution of K-band hyperluminous galaxies (HLIRGs) similar to most luminous radiogalaxies?
   * AstroPh:0301427 - FIRBACK observations of 0.4&lt;z&lt0.9 ultraluminous galaxies which contribute to the [CIB]
   * AstroPh:0401032 - Some Current Issues in Galaxy Formation (June 2003) *excellent short review* - Joe Silk
   * AstroPh:0401503 - *characteristic scales* in galaxy formation: 10km/s, 30km/s, 100km/s, 300km/s - Dekel
   * AstroPh:0402276 - galaxy down-sizing from Subaru - some small galaxies form stars late - Kodama et al.
   * ArXiv:1106.2757 - correlational photometric redshifts: Bayesian inference from photometric redshift surveys, Jens Jasche, Benjamin D. Wandelt

---+++ GRBs - what are their hosts?

   * AstroPh:0301149 - seem to be blue dwarf galaxies - Le Floc'h, Duc, Mirabel et al


---++ dynamics inside a halo/galaxy

---+++ observed: non-cuspy profiles in galaxies and clusters but theory: cuspy

   * AstroPh:0210641 - &Omega;<sub>m</sub> and power spectrum from LSBs - !McGaugh
   * AstroPh:0210658 - SuperMBH s have no significant effect on density profiles - Read, Gilmore
   * AstroPh:0211074 - HST observations of BCGs and inferences for density profiles
   * AstroPh:0307362 - in CDM models cannot destroy satellite galaxies sufficiently to match observations of UltraCompactDwarfs -  S. Kazantzidis, B. Moore, L. Mayer
   * AstroPh:0310660 - The origin and tidal evolution of cuspy triaxial haloes - Ben Moore, Stelios Kazantzidis, Juerg Diemand, Joachim Stadel
   * AstroPh:0311155 - lack of small-scale power leads to artificially cuspy haloes? Discreteness effects in cosmological N-body simulations - Binney
   * AstroPh:0401088 - missing satellite problem solved?

---+++ bars

   * AstroPh:0211105 - 2D spectroscopy of double-barred galaxies - relation to structure near nucleus - Moiseev


---++ galaxy formation

   * AstroPh:0302343 - (100)<sup>1/3</sup> times better resolution in N-body simulations via Wavelets - Romeo et al
   * AstroPh:0210525 SPH simulations showing ellipticals forming which are *not* the result of major mergers of spirals - Hernandez, Lee
   * AstroPh:0402248 - shock generated SFR vs density generated SFR in mergers - Barnes
   * AstroPh:0402271 - stellar population synthesis - new models - Jimenez et al.
   * ArXiv:1312.0107 - Galaxy formation - Joseph Silk, Arianna Di Cintio, Irina Dvorkin - multiple problems fitting LCDM galaxy formation against observations

---+++ predictions from galaxy formation

   * AstroPh:0202318 - Gamma-Rays from Intergalactic Shocks
   * AstroPh:0401003 - shoulder in QSO luminosity function due to maximum mass for SMBH mergers to match halo mergers - Mahmood, Devriendt, Silk
   * AstroPh:0401087 - Quasar Feedback: the Missing Link in Structure Formation - Scannapieco, Peng Oh

---++ ionisation history 

   * AstroPh:0211071 - Miralde-Escude
   * AstroPh:0310593 - WMAP => reionisation at z=20 => need early star formation => either "extreme assumptions" or a component of isocurvature fluctuations - Naoshi Sugiyama, Saleem Zaroubi, Joseph Silk

---++ galaxy clusters 

   * AstroPh:0210662, AstroPh:0210665 - cooling flows or not? XMM-Newton data
   * AstroPh:0210667 simulations showing that finding SunyaevZeldovich effect is subtle - Schultz, Martin White
   * AstroPh:0211422 SunyaevZeldovich review - Rephaeli Sep 2002
   * AstroPh:0211430 point sources (positive temp fluctuations) versus negative (SunyaevZeldovich) - Rubino-Martin, Sunyaev
   * AstroPh:0211408 - "quantised" galaxy positions/velocities from theory - Watts, Coles, Melott
   * AstroPh:0301439 - cluster density profile: mass density versus number density to twice the virial radius - Biviano, Girardi
   * AstroPh:0207353 - morphological redshift estimates of SunyaevZeldovich effect clusters
   * AstroPh:0307539 - models (simulations) fail to match observed (z < 0.13) evolution in cluster eccentricities - Stephen Floor, Adrian Melott, Patrick Motl
   * AstroPh:0405514 - cooling flows from SMBH heating?  Yutaka Fujita (NAOJ), Thomas H. Reiprich (UVa)

---++ missing baryons
   * ArXiv:1102.0201 - Have the missing cosmic baryons been found?  Ehud Behar, Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, Ari Laor

---++ FLRW H_0 estimates
   * ArXiv:1207.7292 - The Megamaser Cosmology Project: IV. A Direct Measurement of the Hubble Constant from UGC 3789  - Authors: M. J. Reid, J. A. Braatz, J. J. Condon, K. Y. Lo, C. Y. Kuo, C. M. V. Impellizzeri, C. Henkel - H_0 sim 71.6 +/- 5.7 km/s/Mpc (UGC 3789) at a distance of 47.6 Mpc, see also ArXiv:1207.7273, H_0 = 74+/-10 km/s/Mpc @ 140 Mpc

---++ DM, DE
NonBaryonicDarkMatter
   * "First Year WMAP papers":http://de.arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/first%20year%20wilkinson/0/1/0/past/2/0 - summary paper is AstroPh:0302209
   * HepPh:0210370 - review on DM and DE - Kamionkowski 
   * AstroPh:0304183 - John Ellis summary 2003
 
---+++ measurements

   * AstroPh:0211095 - use of CMB polarisation towards clusters to detect the WikiPedia:Integrated_sachs_wolfe Effect as a function of redshift, and hence some DE constraints
   * AstroPh:0211100 - SNeIa seen in the near-infrared H band may be better standard candles
   * AstroPh:0211084 - geometrical diagnostic for DE - Sahni et al.
   * reverberation mapping - AstroPh:0211385 - using BELR of quasars as physical coordinate standard ruler, idea implemented since about 5 years ago in dedicated telescope by &#21513;&#20117; (Yoshii)'s MagnumProject in Japan
   * w=-1.06 (+0.20, -0.25) (68% confidence) - CMB - VerySmallArray - AstroPh:0205381 AstroPh:0212495 AstroPh:0212497 0212495 shows C<sub>l</sub> spectrum including 4th peak and possibly rise to 5th peak near l=1400, i.e. 0.1degree = 6 arcmin
   * GrQc:0203060 standard ruler - Is there an imprint of Planck scale physics on inflationary cosmology? - Shankaranarayanan ("Shanki")
   * AstroPh:0210305 AstroPh:0210306 - Archeops results
   * <a name="nofeatures">AstroPh:0302306 WMAP constraint on features in power spectrum - Bridle et al.
   * AstroPh:0311622 N=194 SNe rule out flat Universe at 90% significance - Tirth + Paddy, AstroPh:0311622 similar results, include 14 HST SNe with 1 &lt; z &lt; 1.5
   * AstroPh:0312424 X-ray clusters/SZ seem to favour <b>w<sub>Q</sub> < -1</b>  Alcaniz
   * AstroPh:0405282 DAMA/NaI 7 year results look good for having detected CDM - only problem is deciding which particle - Bernabei et al Gran Sasso
      * AstroPh:0501412 new comparison with other direct detection experiments, DAMA/LIBRA new experiment running since March 2003
   * AstroPh:0404205 Have Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes Observed Dark Matter? - Dan Hooper, Ignacio de la Calle Perez, Joseph Silk, Francesc Ferrer, Subir Sarkar
   * INTEGRAL - non-heavy DM from central 1 kpc around Galactic Centre ? http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/cosmo-torun/2004-05/msg00017.html
      * INTEGRAL 2011 -  ArXiv:1110.6279 - INTEGRAL: science highlights and future prospects -  Christoph Winkler, Roland Diehl, Pietro Ubertini, Jörn Wilms
   * ArXiv:1108.0569 A dark matter interpretation for the ARCADE excess? Authors: N. Fornengo, R. Lineros, M. Regis, M. Taoso _ARCADE = 22 to 1420 MHz_

---+++ spatial distribution
   * ArXiv:1011.6323 halo + 2 annuli ? The Dark Matter Density in the Solar Neighborhood reconsidered, W. de Boer, M. Weber (Karlsruhe)
   * ArXiv:1310.6801 Reconciliation of MOND and Dark Matter theory - Man Ho Chan - MOND is equivalent to isothermal DM radial profile

---++++ standard ruler methods - BAO
   * AstroPh:0501171 SDSS z < 0.47 Eisenstein et al. Omega_total = 1.010\pm0.009
   * AstroPh:0501174 2dFGRS Cole et al.  assumes flat model, get Omega_m = 0.23 \pm 0.02
   * AstroPh:0501395 GRBs as standard candles - C. Firmani (1,2), G. Ghisellini (1), G. Ghirlanda (1), V. Avila-Reese
   * ArXiv:1112.0980 Detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - A. Labatie, J.-L. Starck, M. Lachi&#232;ze-Rey
   * ArXiv:1112.0561 Spherical 3D Isotropic Wavelets -  F. Lanusse, A. Rassat, J.-L. Starck
   * ArXiv:1204.6630 Application of GPUs for the Calculation of Two Point Correlation Functions in Cosmology - Authors: Rafael Ponce, Miguel Cardenas-Montes, Juan Jose Rodriguez-Vazquez, Eusebio Sanchez, Ignacio Sevilla

---+++ candidate particles/fields/unified models

---++++ NonBaryonicDarkMatter (DM) candidate: mirror matter

   * AstroPh:0211067 - evidence for mirror matter from Eros??? - Foot, R.&nbsp;Mitra
   * AstroPh:0403043 - claim that mirror matter H' or He' halo with some O' better fits DAMA/NaI energy spectrum than WIMPs - Foot
   * HepPh:0402267 - &Omega;<sub>b</sub> to &Omega;<sub>m</sub> from mirror matter implies ~1eV scale suggests relation to neutrino oscillations - Foot, Volkas
   * AstroPh:0507153 - Evolutionary and structural properties of mirror star MACHOs - Zurab Berezhiani, Santi Cassisi, Paolo Ciarcelluti, Adriano Pietrinferni

---++++  DE candidate: casimir energy
   
   * GrQc:0406056 casimir energy from scalar field frozen in at Planck time gives &Omega;<sub>&Lambda;</sub> today - Unnikrishnan 

---++++ inhomogeneous (e.g. LTB etc.) calculations
   * ArXiv:0905.3342 On the relation between positive averaged acceleration and physical observables in LTB spaces - Antonio Enea Romano, Misao Sasaki
   * ArXiv:1003.1043 Marco Regis, Chris Clarkson (Cape Town) _Do primordial Lithium abundances imply there's no Dark Energy?_ - Lithium-7 and eta=baryon/photon ratio problem accounted for in toy inhomogeneous model - Li7 is observed on our past world line, while extragalactic observations are observed on our past time cone, giving a method of estimating inhomogeneity effects
   * ArXiv:1005.2165  *review* Inhomogeneity and the foundations of concordance cosmology,  Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens 
   * ArXiv:1104.2590 The growth of structure in the Szekeres inhomogeneous cosmological models and the matter-dominated era,  Mustapha Ishak, Austin Peel 
   * ArXiv:1106.1693 What is dust? - Physical foundations of the averaging problem in cosmology, CQG review paper, David L. Wiltshire  - see also the FAQ at http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24/universe/
   * ArXiv:1103.1146 Global gravitational instability of FLRW backgrounds --- interpreting the dark sectors - Xavier Roy, Thomas Buchert, Sante Carloni, Nathaniel Obadia
   * ArXiv:1207.2035 Newtonian versus relativistic cosmology -  Samuel F. Flender, Dominik J. Schwarz - Newtonian N-body wrong in <nowiki>EdS</nowiki> relativistic 2nd order perturbation theory above 10 Mpc
   * ArXiv:1207.2109 Nonlinear general relativistic corrections to redshift space distortions, gravitational lensing magnification and cosmological distances - Obinna Umeh, Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens
   * ArXiv:1405.7860 What is the distance to the CMB? How relativistic corrections remove the tension with local H0 measurements - Chris Clarkson, Obinna Umeh, Roy Maartens, Ruth Durrer - _"We estimate the expectation value of this aggregated lensing using second-order perturbations about a concordance background, and show that the distance to last scattering is shifted by several percent."_
   * ArXiv:1411.6218 Age Problem in Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi Void Models - Xiao-Peng Yan, De-Zi Liu, Hao Wei - includes old high redshift objects (OHROs) constraints
   * ArXiv:1412.3865 Nonlinear effects of general relativity from multiscale structure - Mikołaj Korzyński

---++++ other candidates
   * HepPh:0210389 - neutrino model implies "DM candidate" - right-handed neutrino - Krauss, Nasri, Trodden
   * HepPh:0211254 - axions as CDM - hints from galactic rotation curves and a feature in an IRAS map for axions
   * AstroPh:0212345 - *nanolensing* of GRBs by planetary mass objects - Mark Walker, Geraint Lewis
   * AstroPh:0401140 - DM = neutralinos which annihilate and explain cooling flow problem in gal clusters - Totani
   * AstroPh:0212414 - DE & DM as two limits of the same thing (Chaplygin fluid) - Gonzalez-Diaz
   * AstroPh:0307350 - DM = value of scalar field, DE = energy density of the same field - distance-z relations - Mark B. Hoffman
      * AstroPh:0406194 - DM as scalar field (spin-0 fundamental interaction) - explains early formation of big ellipticals - Matos, Urena-Lopez
   * AstroPh:0305364 - Weyssenhoff fluid in FLRW model, brane models  - Marek Szyd&#322;owski, Adam Krawiec
   * AstroPh:0306438 -  <em>R<sup>n</sup></em>, with *n&lt;0*  in Hilbert-Einstein action provides DE and early inflation - Carroll, Duvvuri, Trodden, Turner
   * AstroPh:0307311 - Closed Universes, de Sitter Space and Inflation =&gt; DE + low quadrupole/octupole + high k effects - Lasenby, Doran 
   * HepTh:0307128 - Phantom cosmologies - Mariusz P. Dabrowski, Tomasz Stachowiak, Marek Szydlowski
   * AstroPh:0308515 - Quintessence From The Decay of a Superheavy Dark Matter - Houri Ziaeepour
   * AstroPh:0310609 - phenomenological hypothesis: &Omega;<sub>&Lambda;</sub> &alpha; &Omega;<sub>m</sub> ? - Majernik
   * AstroPh:0311247 - Partial rip scenario - a cosmology with a growing cosmological term - Hrvoje Stefancic
   * AstroPh:0405200 -  time and the radial components of the energy momentum tensor for a Schwarzschild metric are equal - applying the same property to cosmology gives a cosmo constant - Yukio Tomozawa
   * HepTh:0406060 - Vacuum Fluctuations of Energy Density can lead to the observed Cosmological Constant - Thanu Padmanabhan
   * GrQc:0407070 - Searching for a solution to the cosmological constant problem - a toy model - Wojciech P. Tarkowski (St Paul Research Lab, Warszawa)
   * AstroPh:0409073 - Dynamics of the Universe with global rotation - Wlodzimierz Godlowski, Marek Szydlowski (Krakow)
   * AstroPh:0412010 - Undulant Universe - Gabriela Barenboim, Olga Mena, Chris Quigg
   * AstroPh:0505202 - Equation of state for Universe from the first principles - Marek Szydlowski, Wlodzimierz Godlowski, Radoslaw Wojtak
   * ArXiv:1412.0145 - Observational constraints to a unified cosmological model - R. R. Cuzinatto, L. G. Medeiros, E. M. de Morais - nice observational analysis of phenomenological DM/DE model

---+++ DE, acceleration vs deceleration, the Big Crunch

   * AstroPh:0302357 - a *decelerating* universe is consistent with SNeIa and CMB (including WMAP) data - Vishwakarma
   * AstroPh:0301087 - Does DE become negative in the future for supergravity and many other M-theory models? - Kallosh, Linde

---+++ DE and curvature with WMAP - negative curvature still possible - Aurich, Steiner

---++ neutrinos

   * AstroPh:0211106 - detecting neutrinos via observational cosmology??? - Hannestad
   * HepPh:0302131 - WMAPping out Neutrino Masses

---++ GW - gravitational waves
   * ArXiv:0905.2508 - Direct Detection of the Primordial Inflationary Gravitational Waves + OmegaGW from cosmic strings, string cosmology, Wei-Tou Ni , GRF2009 essay
   * ArXiv:1403.3985 - BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales - Ade et al. 
      * ArXiv:1403.2369 - A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR - Ade et al.
      * ArXiv:1403.4132 - Higgs Chaotic Inflation and the Primordial B-mode Polarization Discovered by BICEP2 - Kazunori Nakayama, Fuminobu Takahashi
      * ArXiv:1403.4971 - Is Higgs Inflation Dead? - Jessica L. Cook, Lawrence M. Krauss, Andrew J. Long, Subir Sabharwal
      * ArXiv:1403.5043 - Higgs inflation still alive - Yuta Hamada, Hikaru Kawai, Kin-ya Oda, Seong Chan Park
      * ArXiv:1403.5166 - Killing the Straw Man: Does BICEP Prove Inflation? - James B. Dent (1), Lawrence M. Krauss (2,3), Harsh Mathur 
      * ArXiv:1403.5163 - Non-trivial running of the primordial tensor spectrum - Jinn-Ouk Gong
      * ArXiv:1403.5231 - Steps to Reconcile Inflationary Tensor and Scalar Spectra - Vinícius Miranda, Wayne Hu, Peter Adshead
      * [[http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/16/gravitational-waves-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background/][Sean Carroll blog]]
      * ArXiv::1403.6396 - Viability of the matter bounce scenario in Loop Quantum Cosmology from BICEP2 last data - Jaume de Haro, Jaume Amorós
      * ArXiv:1403.5922 - The Knotted Sky II: Does BICEP2 require a nontrivial primordial power spectrum? - Kevork N. Abazajian, Grigor Aslanyan, Richard Easther, Layne C. Price - _"We find no evidence for a cutoff, weak evidence for a running index, and significant evidence for a 'broken' spectrum. Taken at face-value, the BICEP2 results require two new inflationary parameters in order to describe both the broken scale invariance in the perturbation spectrum and the observed tensor-to-scalar ratio."_
      * ArXiv:1403.6768 - Can primordial magnetic fields be the origin of the BICEP2 data? - Camille Bonvin, Ruth Durrer, Roy Maartens
      * ArXiv:1403.6688 - How well do we understand the thermal history of the Universe? Implications of the recent BICEP2 data (GUT, cosmic strings, BICEP2) - Mairi Sakellariadou 

---++ low-medium z
   * ArXiv:1011.6292 Colin et al. - Probing the anisotropic local universe and beyond with SNe Ia data

---++ large-scale flows/anisotropies
   * ArXiv:1207.0697 Ultra-compact radio sources and the isotropy and homogeneity of the Universe, J. C. Jackson

---++ power spectrum of density perturbations

   * AstroPh:0211090 - calibration of &sigma;<sub>8</sub> from better simulations applied to observations - Viana et al.
   * AstroPh:0301641 - inverse approach for an N-body simulation - reconstructing the initial density perturbations from "present-day" observational data - Nice group + Matarrese
   * AstroPh:0302138 - CMBEASY: an Object Oriented Code for the Cosmic Microwave Background - Doran - http://www.cmbeasy.org
   * AstroPh:0302306 - <a href="#nofeatures">see above</a> - Bridle, Lewis, Weller, Efstathiou
   * AstroPh:0306206 - high blazar contribution to l=500 (20-50%) up to l=800 (50-100%) of WMAP, Boomerang
   * AstroPh:0312174 - P(k) from WMAP has infrared cutoff and is lumpy - Shafieloo, Souradeep

---+++ power spectrum method 

   * AstroPh:0307515 - unbiased hybrid estimator that combines a maximum likelihood estimator at low multipoles and pseudo-C<sub>l</sub> estimates at high multipoles - G. Efstathiou
   * AstroPh:0310382 - trans-planckian oscillations - Martin, Ringeval
   * ArXiv:1009.4937 Effects of a Cut, Lorentz-Boosted sky on the Angular Power Spectrum - Authors: Thiago S. Pereira, Amanda Yoho, Maik Stuke, Glenn D. Starkman

---+++ CMB measurements
   * ArXiv:0807.0773 - a better all-sky CMB map than Tegmark et al. and ILC etc.  - Jacques Delabrouille et al.
   * ArXiv:1106.5383 - A needlet ILC analysis of WMAP 7-year data: estimation of CMB temperature map and power spectrum - Authors: Soumen Basak, Jacques Delabrouille
   * ArXiv:1111.3357 - WMAP anomaly : Weak lensing in disguise - Aditya Rotti, Moumita Aich, Tarun Souradeep
   * ArXiv:1111.3149 - CMB map restoration - LIW-Filtering for Linear Iterative Wavelet Filtering which is able to account for the noise spatial variability thanks to a wavelet-based modeling while keeping the highly desired linearity of the Wiener filter. -  J. Bobin, J.-L. Starck, F. Sureau, J. Fadili
   * ArXiv:1212.6945 - Towards efficient and optimal analysis of CMB anisotropies on a masked sky - H. F. Gruetjen, E. P. S. Shellard

---++ cosmic *topology* measurements, Gaussianity tests
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---+++ curvature constraints
   * predictions: How flat can you get? Vardanyan, Trotta, Silk ArXiv:0901.3354

---++ cosmic topology *theory* (or what might be the start of a theory)

   * GrQc:0310002 Peaks in the Hartle-Hawking Wave Function from Sums over Topologies (some 3-manifolds are much more likely than others) - Anderson, Carlip, Ratcliffe, Surya, Tschantz
   * HepTh:0408164 - Creation of a Compact Topologically Nontrivial Inflationary Universe- Linde 
   * ArXiv:1106.0727 Standard model with compactified spatial dimensions - Bartosz Fornal, Mark B. Wise = particle physics approach
   * ArXiv:1107.2557 Topological Casimir effect in compactified cosmic string spacetime Authors: E.R. Bezerra de Mello, A.A. Saharian
   * ArXiv:1110.0611 Topology change in classical and quantum gravity -  G.W. Gibbons

---++ cosmic strings - possible detections
   * AstroPh:0410073 - Kibble discusses new interest in cosmic strings, and the two following observational hints. The first one seems quite serious, at first glance:
      * AstroPh:0302547 gravitational lens - Sazhin et al
      * AstroPh:0406516 gravitational lens - Sazhin et al
      * AstroPh:0406434 grav lens - Schild et al.
   * See also: CosmicStrings

---++ early universe physics
   * AstroPh:0502412 metric-affine gravity (MAG)  Complementary constraints on non-standard cosmological models from CMB and BBN - Adam Krawiec, Marek Szydlowski, Wlodzimierz Godlowski
   * AstroPh:0306523 inflationary parameters and primordial perturbation spectra - nice intro by David Wands

---++ fundamental physics

---+++ extra dimensions
   * AstroPh:0508572 - http://cosmocoffee.info/viewtopic.php?t=332 - Observational Evidence for Extra Dimensions from Dark Matter, Bo Qin, Ue-Li Pen, Joseph Silk

---+++ GR vs Newtonian
   * ArXiv:0906.0134 - Geometrical order-of-magnitude estimates for spatial curvature in realistic models of the Universe - Buchert, Ellis, van Elst - Newtonian gravity is inaccurate for open clusters in our Galaxy, and for galaxies in a galaxy cluster
   * ArXiv:1206.1478 Comments on gauge-invariance in cosmology Authors: Karim A. Malik, David R. Matravers

---+++ LQC: Loop Quantum Cosmology
   * ArXiv:1108.0893 Loop Quantum Cosmology: A Status Report, Authors: Abhay Ashtekar, Parampreet Singh
   * ArXiv:1201.4543 Aspects of Quantum Gravity in Cosmology, Massimiliano Rinaldi
   * ArXiv:1403.4243 - Emergent Cosmology Revisited - Satadru Bag, Varun Sahni, Yuri Shtanov, Sanil Unnikrishnan

---+++ other
   * AstroPh:0310764 - observational constraints (OH, HCO<sup>+</sup>, HI) on evolution of fundamental constants #&alpha;, the proton g-factor g<sub>p</sub> and y=m<sub>e</sub>/m<sub>p</sub> - Jayaram Chengalur, Nissim Kanekar
   * AstroPh:0211402 - observational constraints on quantisation of time (Planck time, around t=10<sup>-43</sup>s)
   * GrQc:0301070 - observational constraints on theology ;) via gravitational lensing by CTCs (wormholes)
   * AstroPh:0302131 - Meta-Theory of Everything - Max Tegmark - this is fun stuff, but not careful like GFR Ellis et al's analysis AstroPh:0305292
   * GrQc:0307112, GrQc:0211082 - a singularity-free inflationary universe *the Emergent Universe* - George F.R. Ellis, Jeff Murugan, Christos G. Tsagas, Roy Maartens
   * AstroPh:0305292 - Multiverses and physical cosmology  - G.F.R. Ellis, U. Kirchner, W.R. Stoeger - *very clear discussion*
   * GrQc:0605049 George FR Ellis - Physics in the Real Universe: Time and Spacetime - spacetime viewpoint vs "evolving" (with time) viewpoint
   * ArXiv:0806.0397 J. Ambjorn, J. Jurkiewicz, R. Loll - The Self-Organized de Sitter Universe
   * ArXiv:1111.4595 Big-bounce cosmology with spinor-torsion coupling - Nikodem J. Poplawski
   * ArXiv:1301.1361 From configuration to dynamics -- Emergence of Lorentz signature in classical field theory -  Shinji Mukohyama, Jean-Philippe Uzan
   * ArXiv:1306.3021 The Trace-Free Einstein Equations and inflation - George F R Ellis

---++ statistics

   * http://de.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408039 - On Bayesian Treatment of Systematic Uncertainties in Confidence Interval Calculation - Fredrik Tegenfeldt (ISU & CERN), Jan Conrad (CERN) - http://tegen.home.cern.ch/tegen/statistics.html
   * ArXiv:1110.2997 - BAMBI: blind accelerated multimodal Bayesian inference - Philip Graff, Farhan Feroz, Michael P. Hobson, Anthony Lasenby
   * ArXiv:1402.1763 - Matrix-free Large Scale Bayesian inference in cosmology - Jens Jasche, Guilhem Lavaux

---++ software
   * ArXiv:1208.3206 A Novel Approach to Visualizing Dark Matter Simulations - Authors: Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn, Tom Abel - (N-body simulations)
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