Ay 21 Webpage - Galaxies and Cosmology - Winter 2024

http://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay21/ = tinyurl.com/ay21class

Instructor: George Djorgovski, djorgovski at caltech.edu
Office hours: email the instructor

TA: Pranav Nagarajan, pnagaraj at caltech.edu
Office hours: Thursday, 5:30-6:30 pm, in 219 Cahill

Lectures: Mon & Wed, 2-3 pm, Hameetan auditorium, Cahill

Recitation Section: Fridays, 2-3 pm, 219 Cahill. Attendance is required

Class syllabus, summary, grading, collaboration policy, etc. (pdf)

Caltech students have access to the online version of a textbook, Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology by P. Schneider (Caltech login required).
In addition, slides and videos of the lectures will be posted below, as we go along.

Homeworks and exams:

See the Canvas website. They will be posted on Fridays at 5 pm (unless otherwise noted), and be due on the following Friday at 2 pm, also on Canvas.

Lectures:

We are recording them and the playlist is here. The raw recordings and the streaming links are here.

You also have access to an earlier version playlist here. The corresponding lecture links are provided below but will be replaced with new ones when ready.

Other useful stuff:

Physical and Astronomical Constants

Fluxes and Magnitudes

CosmoCalc by Ned Wright * Advanced version * Time converting * A. Robotham's CosmoCalc

Some additional readings that you may find interesting:

Last changed: 8Mar24, SGD