Ay 124 Webpage - Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies - Winter 2009

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay124/

Times and location: Mon 2:30 - 4 in 012 Robinson, and Wed 10:30 - 12 in 106 Robinson

Class summary, grading, collaboration policy, etc.
The plan of the lectures (may evolve)

Instructors (for email below, #=@, *=.):

• George Djorgovski, george # astro * caltech * edu , 395-4415, 221 Robinson
• Andrew Benson, abenson # its * caltech * edu , 395-4667, 257 W. Bridge
• TA: Elisabeth Krause, ekrause # astro * caltech * edu , ph. 395-3102, rm. 03
• Office hours: by arrangement

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Homeworks & Exams:

• Homework #1 , due on Fri Jan 23 (pdf file)
  • Solutions (pdf file)
• Homework #2 , due on Fri Jan 30 (pdf file)
  • Solutions (pdf file)
• The Midterm
  • Solutions (Theory part) (pdf file)
  • Solutions (Observatons part) (pdf file)
• Homework #3 , due on Fri Feb 27 (pdf file)
  • solutions...
• Homework #4 , due on Fri Mar 6 (pdf file)
  • solutions...
• The Final Exam

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Lecture 1: Introduction, some history, astrometry, distances

• BM Chapters 1, 2.1, 2.2
• George's slides (11 MB pdf file)

Lecture 2: Photometry, color-magnitude diagrams, interstellar dust

• BM Chapters 2.3, 3.5, 3.7
• George's slides (15 MB pdf file)

Lecture 3: Stars, their evolution, masses, luminosity and mass functions

• BM Chapters 3.1-3.4, 3.6
• George's slides (5.5 MB pdf file)

Lecture 4: Elements of stellar dynamics

• BT Chapters 4.1-4.3
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)
• George's supplementary slides (3.7 MB pdf file)

Lecture 5: Star clusters - observations

• BM Chapter 6
• George's slides (12.5 MB pdf file)

Lecture 6: Star clusters: dynamics

• BT Chapter 8
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

Lecture 7: Galaxies: morphology and general properties

• BM Chapters 4.1, 4.2, 4.6, 11.1
• George's slides (7.5 MB pdf file)

Lecture 8: Elliptical galaxies

• BM Chapters 4.3, 8.3, 11.2
• George's slides (4.3 MB pdf file)

Lecture 9: Modeling the evolution of stellar populations

• BM Chapters 5.1, 5.4
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

Lecture 10: Chemical enrichment and chemical evolution

• BM Chapters 5.2, 5.3
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

Lecture 11: Spiral galaxies

• BM Chapters 4.3, 8.3, 11.2
• George's slides (4.9 MB pdf file)
• C. Francis & E. Anderson, "Galactic Spiral Structure" (7.7 MB pdf file)

Lecture 12: Galaxy scaling relations

• George's slides (7.5 MB pdf file)
• S. G. Djorgovski, "Systematics of Galaxy properties: Hints About Their Formation", ASPCS, 24, 19 (1992) (2.2 MB pdf file)

Lecture 13: Dynamics of disks, spiral structure

• BT Chapters 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

Lecture 14: Structure of the Milky Way: Overview, structural components, basic kinematics, bar, nucleus

• BM Chapters 10.1, 10.2, 9.5
• George's slides (10 MB pdf file)

Lecture 15: Structure of the Milky Way: ISM, rotation, nucleus

• BT Chapters 8, 9
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

Lecture 16: Kinematics and mass models of the Milky Way

• BM Chapters 10.3 - 10.6
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

Lecture 17: Hierarchical galaxy assembly - basic ideas

• BM Chapter 10.7
• Andrew's notes (pdf file)

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Last changed: 12 March 09, SGD