Ast 4002 - Astrophysics II: Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
General:
Course syllabus
Office hours: Mondays 4:30-5:30; Tuesdays 1:30-2:30
Assignments:
Groups
Reading assignments
Notes on the reading assignments
Problem set #5, problem 2: solution
and plot
Presentation schedule
Scores/grades:
here
Resources:
Astro-ph preprint archive
NASA ADS paper archive
Atmospheric transparency
The astronomers' Periodic Table of Elements
Cosmic chemical abundances
Summary of Stellar evolution
Cepheids - interactive PL relation (MACHO team)
Stellar IMFs
Atomic Hydrogen Map of the Milky Way ("side view")
Atomic Hydrogen Map of the Milky Way ("top view")
Interstellar PAH
Hydrogen atom electronic energy levels
The Cooling Function of gas
Universe Timeline
Distance Indicators (Ed Wright's page)
Picture Gallery of Spiral Galaxies (NOAO site)
Picture Gallery of Elliptical Galaxies (NOAO site)
Large Magellanic Cloud - An Irregular galaxy
Small Magellanic Cloud - An Irregular galaxy
Galactic Center: stars orbiting the center
Lagrange Points
The Magellanic Stream
Sagittarius Dwarf - MW's tidally disrupted satellite
Canis Major Dwarf - MW's tidally disrupted satellite
The Local Group of galaxies (zoomable maps)
Schematic of the Local Group
Movies of structure formation (UW N-body shop)
Dwarf Dark Matter halos in the Local Group, astro-ph/9907411
Spiral Metamorphosis (John Dubinski)
Spider diagram: Neutral Hydrogen Gas in the Circinus Galaxy
Polar ring galaxy
Kinematics of Virgo Cluster spirals
Dynamical Astronomy JavaLab (Chris Mihos, CWRU)
"Grand Design" spirals: M51,
M74,
M100,
NGC 2997
Flocculent spirals: NGC 4414,
NGC 5055
One-arm spiral: NGC 4725
Barred spiral: NGC 1300 (bigger)
and NGC 1300 (smaller)
Spiral with leading arms NGC 3593 (IR)
and NGC 3593 (optical)
Spiral with trailing (inner) and leading (outer) arms NGC 4622 and the published paper
The origin of spiral arms (C. Danforth, UColorado)
Orbits in barred galaxies (p.13)
Projected triaxial galaxies produce twisting isophotes and
Ellipticity angle as a function of radius
Ellipticals light profiles - Sersic n (p.3)
Boxy and disky isophotes
cD galaxies (J.Tonry, 1987)
Fundamental Plane (and tilt) for Ellipticals (p.8, 10)
Ellipticals in the X-rays and optical (Chandra press release)
Black holes mass vs. bulge/elliptical galaxy mass
Ellipticals: mass in stars, X-ray emitting gas and dark matter (astro-ph/0601301)
Planetary Nebulae as tracers of intracluster stars
Metal enrichment of intracluster gas (p.5) and
Metals in intracluster gas (p.17)
Galaxy Clusters in the optical and X-rays (Ray White, U Alabama)
Star formation and galaxy assembly (astro-ph/0803.1489 - p.3,5,7)
Global star formation history with redshift (astro-ph/0801.1594)
Galaxy formation schematic
Morphology-density relation (Mark Whittle, U Virginia)
Gravitational Lensing - two-image animation (Leiden Univ)
Examples of MACHO microlensing light curves (astro-ph/0901.1325, p.19-21)
Microlensing MACHO Project (McMaster site)
Extrasolar palnets through microlensing (astro-ph/0902.1761, p.11, 21-23)
Galaxy lenses (CASTLES)
Galaxy cluster lenses: Abell 2218,
CL 0024+1654,
Abell 1689
Cosmic time vs. redshift and scale factor
Angular diameter distance in various cosmological models
Supernova Cosmology Project
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Abundance vs. baryon/photon ratio
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
Two micron all sky galaxy survey
Formation of the Large Scale Structure (images and movies, UChicago)
Formation of the Milky Way type galaxy in high resolution N-body simulation
Redshift-space distortions (Bill Keel)
Biased galaxy formation (Bill Keel)
WMAP 5-year CMB map
CMB maps, power spectra, etc
Virgocentral Flow (see pg. 12 [fig.4] and pg. 19 [fig.9])
Quasars & AGN (summary+pictures by W.Keel)
AGN - structure, images, spectra, light curves
Movies of superluminal motion (especially, 3C120, 3C273, 3C279)
Microquasars
Examples of GRB lightcurves
GRBs from collapsars
Curve of Growth for spectral lines
Lya forest lines in QSO spectra
Gunn-Peterson Effect in high-z QSO spectra
UV Drop-outs (C. Steidel, CalTech)
