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Observational cosmology (book category) covers the empirical study of the Universe—how astronomers and cosmologists use telescopes, detectors and surveys to measure cosmic phenomena and constrain models of cosmic history. Titles in this category range from technical textbooks and instrument- and data-analysis guides (covering redshift surveys, the cosmic microwave background, supernova cosmology, gravitational lensing, large-scale structure, radio/optical/IR/sub-mm techniques, and statistical methods) to popular-science accounts and historical narratives that explain major observational discoveries such as the expanding universe, dark matter, dark energy, and the CMB. These books emphasize measurement, instrumentation, survey design, error analysis, and the translation of observational results into tests of theoretical models, and are aimed at researchers and students as well as informed general readers interested in how we know what we know about the cosmos.

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