Ast 4002 - Astrophysics II: Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
General:
Course syllabus
Office hours: Mondays 2:30-3:30; Thursdays 2:30-3:30
Assignments:
Groups
Emails
Reading Assignments
Notes on the reading assignments
Presentation schedule
Scores/grades:
here
Resources:
Astro-ph preprint archive
NASA ADS paper archive
The astronomers' Periodic Table of Elements
Summary of Stellar evolution
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
Stellar IMFs
Atomic Hydrogen Map of the Milky Way ("side view")
Atomic Hydrogen Map of the Milky Way ("top view")
Interstellar PAH
The Cooling Function of gas
The Local Group of galaxies (zoomable maps)
Large Magellanic Cloud - An Irregular galaxy
Small Magellanic Cloud - An Irregular galaxy
The Magellanic Stream
Cepheids - interactive PL relation (MACHO team)
Sagittarius Dwarf - MW's tidally disrupted satellite
Canis Major Dwarf - MW's tidally disrupted satellite
Schematic of the Local Group
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
Black holes mass vs. bulge/elliptical galaxy mass
Ellipticals: mass in stars, X-ray emitting gas and dark matter
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
Star formation and galaxy assembly (p.3,5,7)
Global star formation history with redshift
Microlensing MACHO Project (McMaster site)
Galaxy lenses (CASTLES)
Galaxy cluster lenses: Abell 2218,
CL 0024+1654,
Abell 1689
Morphology-density relation
Formation of the Large Scale Structure (images and movies, UChicago)
Movies of cosmological structure formation (UW N-body shop)
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
Hydrogen atom electronic energy levels
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)
