Cosmology Dark Matter Textbooks: Learn Core Topics in Astrophysics & Cosmology

[Floyd_13]

Hello, could you please recommend some good introductory textbooks for studying core topics in astrophysics/cosmology, and especially dark matter?

I know that 'An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics' by Caroll and Ostlie is a good book, but I 'm looking for something more concise, so to speak. Thanks!

 

[PeroK]

Have you looked at Introduction to Modern Cosmology by Andrew Liddle?

 

[Floyd_13]

Have you looked at Introduction to Modern Cosmology by Andrew Liddle?

I have actually, but unfortunately it doesn't say much about dark matter.

 

[PeroK]

I have actually, but unfortunately it doesn't say much about dark matter.

Perhaps there's no much to say. Not in a textbook. It's still in the realm of speculative research, isn't it?

 

[Vanadium 50]

Textbooks are often a couple decades behind leading edge research.

 

[Bandersnatch]

I have actually, but unfortunately it doesn't say much about dark matter.

B. Ryden's cosmology text has a chapter on DM that is a bit more meaty than the equivalent in Liddle, plus a scattering of relevant discussions in other places, such as in the chapter on CMB temperature fluctuations.
It's still just a 20-ish page overview, but at least some mathematical steps are presented; e.g. deriving the virial theorem in its 'Dark Matter in Clusters' sub-chapter. The level of complexity is not terribly high, but higher than in Liddle.
I haven't read Carroll & Ostie's book, so I don't know how it compares, other than by page count (<300 pages, vs ~1400 (!), but the subject matter is narrower too).

 

[Frimus]

Another book dealing (to some extent) with DM is "Principles of Astrophysics" by Charles Keeton.