| Jan 29 |
Introduction Overview (Power Point slides; Draine § 1; Lequeux § 1.1,1.3) |
| Jan 31 |
Hot Gas SNRs & superbubbles (Draine § 34,38,39,25.7; Lequeux § 5.3,12.1-2,15.2) |
| Feb 5 |
Hot Gas SNR & superbubbles cont. |
| Feb 7 |
Warm Ionized Gas HII regions (Draine § 10,13,14,15,18,27,28,32.6; Lequeux § 5.1,8.1.4,8.2) |
| Feb 12 |
Warm Ionized Gas HII regions cont. |
| Feb 14 |
Warm Ionized Gas HII regions cont. |
| Feb 19 |
Warm Ionized Gas HII regions cont. |
| Feb 21 |
Warm Ionized Gas Diffuse WIM (Lequeux § 5.2) |
| Feb 26 |
Atomic Gas Warm and Cold Neutral Medium (WNM & CNM) (Draine § 16,29,30; Lequeux §4.1, 8.1, 8.2) |
| Feb 28 |
Atomic Gas WNM & CNM cont. |
| Mar 5 |
Cold Molecular Gas dark clouds and GMCs (Draine § 31,32,33; Lequeux § 4.2, 6.3, 8.3.4,9.2,9.4.2) |
| Mar 7 |
Cold Molecular Gas dark clouds and GMCs cont. |
| Mar 12 |
Dust grains interstellar dust (Draine § 21---26; Lequeux § 7) |
| Mar 14 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| Mar 26 |
Photodissociation Regions PDRs and star formation interfaces (Draine § 31; Lequeux § 10) |
| Mar 28 |
Other ISM components Magnetic fields, and cosmic rays (Draine \S\S 4.7,11,12.1,26.3,40; Lequeux \S\S 2.2, 6.1) |
| Apr 2 |
Multiphase models of the ISM Two-phase model of the ISM: Field, Goldsmith, & Habing (Lequeux §S 8.3). Three-phase models of the ISM: Cox & Smith; McKee & Ostriker (Lequeux § 12.1, 15.2) |
| Apr 4 |
Hydrodynamics Equations and conservation laws (Shu § 4) |
| Apr 9 |
Hydrodynamics Equations and conservation laws cont. |
| Apr 11 |
Hydrostatic Equilibrium barotropic flows (Shu § 5, 6) |
| Apr 16 |
Hydrostatic Equilibrium steady flow solutions (Shu § 5, 6) |
| Apr 18 |
Hydrostatic Equilibrium Bondi accretion, Parker wind (Shu § 5, 6) |
| Apr 23 |
Instabilities and Waves buoyancy (Rayleigh-Taylor), shear (Kelvin-Helmholtz), rotational (Rayleigh's criterion), gravitational (Jeans), thermal instability, sound waves, density waves (Draine § 41; Shu § 8, 11) |
| Apr 25* |
Instabilities and Waves cont. |
| Apr 30 |
Instabilities and Waves cont. |
| May 2 |
Shocks jump conditions for non-radiative and radiative flows (Shu \S\S 15,16) |
| May 7 |
Shocks jump conditions cont. |
| May 9 |
Supernovae blast waves (Shu § 17) |
| May 14 |
Magnetohydrodynamics MHD equations of motion (Shu § 21) |