Reading Assignments
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Mon Jan 28  Group #1  Section 2.1  (Mapping our MW) The Solar neighborhood 
Wed Jan 30  Group #2  Section 2.2  The stars in the Galaxy
Thu Jan 31  Group #3  Section 2.3  Galactic Rotation

Mon Feb  4  Group #4  Section 2.4  Milky Way meteorology: the interstellar gas
Wed Feb  6  Group #5  Section 3.1  (Orbits of stars) Motion under gravity: weighing the Galaxy
Thu Feb  7  Group #1  Section 3.2  Why the Galaxy isn't bumpy: two-body relaxation

Mon Feb 11  Group #2  Section 3.3  Orbits of disk stars: epicycles
Wed Feb 13  Group #3  Section 3.4  The collisionless Boltzmann equation
Thu Feb 14  Group #4  Section 4.1  (The Local Group) Satellites of the Milky Way

Mon Feb 18  Group #5  Section 4.2  Spirals of the Local Group
Wed Feb 20  Group #6  Section 4.3  How did the Local Group galaxies form?
Thu Feb 21  Group #1  Section 4.4  Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

Mon Feb 25  Group #2  Section 4.5  The past and future of the Local Group
Wed Feb 27  Group #3  Section 5.1  (Spiral and S0 galaxies) The distribution of starlight
Thu Feb 28  Group #4  Section 5.2  Observing the gas

Mon Mar  3  Group #5  Section 5.3  Gas motions and the masses of disk galaxies
Wed Mar  5  Group #6  Section 5.4  Interlude: the sequence of disk galaxies
Thu Mar  6  Group #1  Section 5.5  Spiral arms and galactic bars
  
Mon Mar 10  Group #2  Section 5.6  Bulges and centers of disk galaxies
Wed Mar 12  Group #3  Section 6.1  (Elliptical galaxies) Photometry
Thu Mar 13  Group #4  Section 6.2  Motions of the stars

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Mon Mar 24  Group #5  Section 6.3  Stellar populations and gas
Wed Mar 26  Group #6  Section 6.4  Dark Matter and Black Holes
Thu Mar 27  Group #1  Section 7.1  (Galaxy Groups and Clusters) Groups: the homes of disk galaxies

Mon Mar 31  Group #2  Section 7.2  Rich clusters: the domain of S0 and Elliptical galaxies
Tue Apr  1  Group #3  Section 7.3  Galaxy Formation: nature, nurture, or merger?
Wed Apr  2  Group #4  Section 7.4  Intergalactic Dark Matter: gravitational lensing
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Mon Apr  7  Group #5  Section 8.1  (The large-scale distribution of galaxies) LSS today
Wed Apr  9  Group #6  Section 8.2  Expansion of a homogeneous Universe
Thu Apr 10  Group #1  Section 8.3  Observing the earliest galaxies

Mon Apr 14  Group #2  Section 8.4  Growth of structure: from small beginnings
Wed Apr 16  Group #3  Section 8.5  Growth of structure: clusters, walls, and voids
Thu Apr 17  Group #4  Section 9.1  (Active Galacti Nuclei and the early history of galaxies) AGN
  
Mon Apr 21  Group #5  Section 9.2  Fast jets in AGN, microquasars, and gamma-ray bursts
Wed Apr 23  Group #6  Section 9.3  Intergalactic gas
Thu Apr 24  Group #1  Section 9.4  The first galaxies