Course:ASTR303
| Extragalactic Astronomy | |
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| ASTR 303 | |
| Section: | 101 |
| Instructor: | Jeremy Heyl |
| Email: | heyl@phas.ubc.ca |
| Office: | Hennings 417 |
| Office Hours: | MW 12-13 |
| Class Schedule: | MWF 11-12 |
| Classroom: | Hennings 302 |
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Extragalactic Astronomy
Instructor: Jeremy Heyl (heyl)
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Topics
Topics we will cover include:
- Properties of normal galaxies,
- Elements of stellar dynamics;
- Galactic structure, dynamics and evolution;
- Active galaxies and quasars;
- Large scale structures.
Grading Scheme
I will base the grades on the homework assignments (40%), midterm (10%), seminar presentations or the final exam (50%).
Textbook
The required textbook is Galaxies in the Universe by Linda S. Sparke, John Sill Gallagher and John S. Gallagher, III. It is available on Amazon for $70.95 (new) (less for used) and at the UBC bookstore.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1.1 The stars 2 1.2 Our Milky Way 26 1.3 Other galaxies 37 1.4 Galaxies in the expanding Universe 46 1.5 The pregalactic era: a brief history of matter 50 2 Mapping our Milky Way 58 2 1 The solar neighborhood 59 2.2 The stars in the Galaxy 67 2.3 Galactic rotation 89 2.4 Milky Way meteorology: the interstellar gas 95 3 The orbits of the stars 110 3.1 Motion under gravity: weighing the Galaxy 111 3.2 Why the Galaxy isn't bumpy: two-body relaxation 124 3.3 Orbits of disk stars: epicycles 133 3.4 The collisionless Boltzmann equation 140 4 Our backyard: the Local Group 151 4.1 Satellites of the Milky Way 156 4.2 Spirals of the Local Group 169 4.3 How did the Local Group galaxies form? 172 4.4 Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group 183 4.5 The past and future of the Local Group 188 5 Spiral and S galaxies 191 5.1 The distribution of starlight 192 5.2 Observing the gas 206 5.3 Gas motions and the masses of disk galaxies 214 5.4 Interlude: the sequence of disk galaxies 222 5.5 Spiral arms and galactic bars 225 5.6 Bulges and centers of disk galaxies 236 6 Elliptical galaxies 241 6.1 Photometry 242 6.2 Motions of the stars 254 6.3 Stellar populations and gas 266 6.4 Dark matter and black holes 273 7 Galaxy groups and lusters 278 7.1 Groups: the homes of disk galaxies 279 7.2 Rich clusters: the domain of SO and elliptical galaxies 292 7.3 Galaxy formation: nature, nurture, or merger? 300 7.4 Intergalactic dark matter gravitational lensing 303 8 Large scale distribution of galaxies 314 8.1 Large-scale structure today 316 8.2 Expansion of a homogeneous Universe 325 8.3 Observing the earliest galaxies 335 8.4 Growth of structure: from small beginnings 344 8.5 Growth of structure: clusters, walls, and voids 355 9 Active galactic nuclei and the early history of galaxies 365 9.1 Active galactic nuclei 366 9.2 Fast jets in active nuclei, microquasars, and γ-ray bursts 383 9.3 Extragalactic gas 390 9.4 The first galaxies 397