Dark Energy Detector - for Space Research & Physics Labs

well I'm not a professional astrophysicist but I'm married to one...and here's an excerpt from a favorable review by a professional who recommends this book:"My main quibbles with [a different book, not this one!] Dark Energy: Theory and Observations are that the authors missed the opportunity to cover increasingly standard analysis techniques such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo and omitted discussing sources of systematic errors in the major techniques for probing dark energy. And a brief survey of the landscape of current and upcoming experimental projects in the field would have been helpful to provide context for students considering observational dark-energy research.Many of those shortcomings are addressed in [this book!] Wang's Dark Energy. Although Wang also covers the basic cosmology background and includes a short chapter on models to explain cosmic acceleration, her book focuses much more on the major observational methods for probing dark energy--supernovae, large-scale structure, weak lensing, and clusters. As an example, Wang goes into substantially more detail on the nuances and systematics of estimating supernova distances. Her book will therefore be of more practical interest to those contemplating or involved in analysis of cosmological data. It also includes a chapter on instrumentation for dark-energy experiments and a brief discussion of ongoing and future projects. "--From Joshua Frieman's review in Physics Today (June 2011)link to review article:[...]