ASTR421: Galaxies - Fall 2012
Prof. Richard Mushotzky
Tue, Thu; 3:30 - 4:45 PM
High Energy Astrophysics Picture of the Week | Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Term dates: Aug 30 - Dec 11, 2012
- Room: CSS 2428
- Office: CSS 1104
- Off. Hrs Tue, Thu; 10:00 - 11:00 or by appointment
- TA: Qian Wang (qw at astro.umd.edu)
CSS 0204, office hours Mon 15:30 - 17:00, Wed 12:15 - 13:30
Brief questions - open door. More time by appointment. Email for arrangement.
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Course materials
Homework 5Lectures 1-2 Introduction: Some Galaxy PropertiesLectures 3-4 Basic Galaxy Properties
Lectures 4-6 Stellar Populations
Lecture 12 Dynamics chapter 3 of S+G
Lecture 13 Local group chapter 4 of S+G
Lecture 14-15 Spiral Galaxies chapter 5 of S+G
Lecture 16-18 Elliptical Galaxies chap 6 of S+G
Lecture 19-22 Galaxies forming and changing
Lecture 23 First AGN Lecture Lecture 24 Second AGN Lecture Lecture 25 Third AGN Lecture Lecture 27 Summary Some interesting articles and resourcesHistory of Science (Science article, 2009)
The great Shapley-Curtis debate on the size of the Universe
Some history of Cold Dark Matter
Popular version of Origin of Universe
The Friedmann equations and consequences (some deeper math)
Star Formation (Kennicutt, Annual Review)
Star Formation (Kennicutt and Evans 2012, review article)
Inferring History of Star Formation (Dunlop, review article)
Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes (Heckman and Kauffmann, review article)
Signatures of Formation of the Milky Way (Freeman and Bland-Hawthorn, review article)
Thermal Processes in Astrophysics (Kaastra et al., review article)
Physical Properties and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (Blanton and Moustakas, review article)
Derivation of Galactic Dynamics Equations (P. van der Kruit)
Chris Mihos's web site for Java apps illustrating galaxy dynamics>
Esther Zirbel's web site links to interesting articles from Scientific American>
review article on AGN Physics (H. Netzer)
when where and how are SMBHs Born (J. Greene) Movies shown in class
