Reading Assignments
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Wed Jan 21  LLRW      Section 1.1
                               
Mon Jan 26  LLRW      Section 1.2-1.5
Wed Jan 28  Group #1  Section 2.1  (Mapping our MW) The Solar neighborhood 
            Group #2  Section 2.2  The stars in the Galaxy

Mon Feb  2  Group #3  Section 2.3  Galactic Rotation
            Group #4  Section 2.4  Milky Way meteorology: the interstellar gas
Wed Feb  4  Group #5  Section 3.1  (Orbits of stars) Motion under gravity: weighing the Galaxy

Mon Feb  9  LLRW      Section 3.2  Why the Galaxy isn't bumpy: two-body relaxation
            LLRW      Section 3.3  Orbits of disk stars: epicycles
Wed Feb 11  LLRW      Section 3.4  The collisionless Boltzmann equation

Mon Feb 16  Group #6  Section 4.1  (The Local Group) Satellites of the Milky Way
            Group #1  Section 4.2  Spirals of the Local Group
Wed Feb 18  Group #2  Section 4.3  How did the Local Group galaxies form?

Mon Feb 23  Group #3  Section 4.4  Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group
            Group #4  Section 4.5  The past and future of the Local Group
Wed Feb 25  Group #5  Section 5.1  (Spiral and S0 galaxies) The distribution of starlight

Mon Mar  2  Group #6  Section 5.2  Observing the gas
            Group #1  Section 5.3  Gas motions and the masses of disk galaxies
Wed Mar  4  Group #2  Section 5.4  Interlude: the sequence of disk galaxies

Mon Mar  9  Group #3  Section 5.5  Spiral arms and galactic bars
            Group #4  Section 5.6  Bulges and centers of disk galaxies
Wed Mar 11  LLRW      left-overs, presentation/paper topics

--- Spring Break --- March 16-20

Mon Mar 23  Group #5  Section 6.1  (Elliptical galaxies) Photometry
            Group #6  Section 6.2  Motions of the stars
Wed Mar 25  Group #1  Section 6.3  Stellar populations and gas

Mon Mar 30  Group #2  Section 6.4  Dark Matter and Black Holes
            Group #3  Section 7.1  (Galaxy Groups and Clusters) Groups: the homes of disk galaxies
Wed Apr  1  Group #4  Section 7.2  Rich clusters: the domain of S0 and Elliptical galaxies

Mon Apr  6  Group #5  Section 7.3  Galaxy Formation: nature, nurture, or merger?
            LLRW      Section 7.4  Intergalactic Dark Matter: gravitational lensing
Wed Apr  8  Group #6  Section 8.1  (The large-scale distribution of galaxies) LSS today

Mon Apr 13  LLRW      Section 8.2  Expansion of a homogeneous Universe
            LLRW      Section 8.3  Observing the earliest galaxies
Wed Apr 15  Group #1  Section 8.4  Growth of structure: from small beginnings

Mon Apr 20  Group #2  Section 8.5  Growth of structure: clusters, walls, and voids
            Group #3  Section 9.1  (Active Galacti Nuclei and the early history of galaxies) AGN
Wed Apr 22  Group #4  Section 9.2  Fast jets in AGN, microquasars, and gamma-ray bursts 

Mon Apr 27  Group #5  Section 9.3  Intergalactic gas
            Group #6  Section 9.4  The first galaxies