Ay 20 Webpage

Ay 20 Webpage - Fall 2004

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/

Ay 20 files: the truth is way, way out there ...

Instructor: George Djorgovski, george 'at' astro, 395-4415, 221 Robinson
Office hours: by arrangement
TA: Dan Stark, dps 'at' astro, 395-6857, 16 Robinson
Office hours: by arrangement

Times and location: Tue. 1-2:30 and Fri. 3-4:30, 106 Robinson
Class summary, syllabus, grading, collaboration policy, etc.
Textbook website: "Astronomy: A Physical Perspective", by Marc Kutner
Another optional, but useful book is "An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics", by B. Carroll & D. Ostlie; here is their website
Go Websurf! Here is a small collection of (semi)popular astronomy links. Lots of good stuff. Suggestions for additions are most welcome! Caltech libraries also have a great set of astronomy/astrophysics links and resources. If you are in the caltech.edu domain, you have on-line access to the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Lots of great stuff.

The Final ...

... is available from the Astro office (211 Robinson). Due by 5 pm on Friday, Dec. 10.

Homework #1, distributed on Oct. 1, 2004, due in class on Oct. 8, 2004: PDF file

Homework #2, distributed on Oct. 8, 2004, due in class on Oct. 15, 2004: PDF file

Lab #1, due ASAP, see the details on Dan's website

Homework #3, distributed on Oct. 15, 2004, due in class on Oct. 22, 2004: PDF file

Homework #4, posted on Nov. 5, 2004, due to the TA (!) on Nov. 12, 2004: PDF file

Homework #5, posted on Nov. 12, 2004, due in class on Nov. 19, 2004: PDF file

Homework #6, posted on Nov. 23, 2004, due in class on Dec. 3, 2004: PDF file

This year's (anonymous) winners of the OBAFGKMLT contest.
And here are the past winners, when the acronym used to be OBAFGKMRNS

Class trip to Palomar: Driving instructions * Map #1 * Map #2

(NB: lecture pdf's linked below tend to have some pictures deleted, in order to make the file sizes more reasonable.)

Lecture 1:

Kutner chap. 1, 2.6; C&O chap. 1
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
M. Harwit, "The growth of astrophysical understanding", Physics Today, Nov. 2003, p. 38; here is a local pdf file . Check out also his book "Cosmic discovery", QB43.2 .H37
P. Brosche's History of astronomy website

Lecture 2:

Kutner chap. 4, C&O chap. 6
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
"Optics", by B. Crowell , a short textbook (pdf file)
Articles on telescopes from the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (pdf files): Reflectors * Refractors * IR * History * Future * X-ray * Gamma-ray
Keck , Palomar , OVRO , CSO , and other Caltech observatories
AO links from CfAO
George's observing links , astronomical archives links , and Virtual Observatory links

Lecture 3:

Kutner chap. 4.5
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Magnitudes and photometric systems

Lecture 4:

Kutner chap. 5, C&O chaps. 2, 7
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)

Lecture 5:

Kutner chaps. 2.3 - 2.4, 3.1 - 3.3, C&O chaps. 3.3 - 3.5, 5
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
M. Fowler's Phys 252 class at U.Va.
Jim Kaler's star spectra webpage

Lecture 6:
(Given by Tony Travouillon)

Kutner chap. 3.4 - 3.5, C&O chaps. 8, 9
Tony's ppt lecture (pdf file)

Lecture 7:

Kutner chaps. 3.5, 9.1 - 9.5, C&O chap. 10
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)

Lecture 8:

Kutner chaps. 6, 9.6, C&O chap. 11, 14.5
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
National Solar Observatory
John Bahcall's webpage has lots of useful info and links about the Solar neutrinos, etc. Here is an encyclopedia article (pdf file) he wrote, also available at arXiv preprint server

Lecture 9:

Kutner chaps. 10.1 - 10.3, C&O chaps. 13.1 - 13.3, 14
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)

Lecture 10:
(Given by Derek Fox)

Kutner chaps. 10.4, 11.2 - 11.5, 8.4, C&O chaps. 15, 16
Derek's ppt lecture (pdf file)

Lecture 11:
(Given by Reed Riddle)

Kutner chap. 12, C&O chap. 17
Reed's ppt lecture (pdf file)
X-Ray binaries tutorial at GSFC

Lecture 12:

Kutner chaps. 11.1, C&O chap. 13.3, bits of 17.4
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Doug Leonard's SN class website

Lecture 13:

Kutner chaps. 14 - 15, C&O chap. 12
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Rick Pogge's Intro to ISM notes (pdf file)

Lecture 14:

Lecture 15:

Kutner chap. 13, C&O chap. 24.1
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Articles from the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (pdf files): Star Clusters (general description) * Globular Clusters (mainly from the stellar populations viewpoint) * Stellar Dynamics * Dynamics (orbits and more general)
A popular article on globular clusters by Yours Truly (pdf file)

Lecture 16:

Kutner chap. 16, C&O chap. 22
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Articles from the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (pdf files): Galactic structure * Thin disk * Galactic halo
UCLA Galactic Center Group

Lecture 17:

C&O chap. 24.2
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Stellar masses , an article from the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (pdf file)
Protogalaxies , an article from the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (pdf file)
The Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way, by C. Chiappini, 2001, Amer. Sci., v. 89, p. 506 (pdf file)

Lecture 18:

Kutner chap. 16.5, 17; C&O chap. 23, parts of 22.2
George's ppt lecture (pdf file)
Articles from the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (pdf files): Dark matter (observations) * Dark matter (nature) * WIMPs and MACHOs * Microlensing * Galaxy evolution

Ay 20 Webpage - Fall 2004

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/

Ay 20 files: the truth is way, way out there ...

The Final ...

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