Ay 212 Webpage
http:://astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay212/
This is a tutorial-style class, which meets once per week.
Class requirements etc.
Current favorite time: Fridays 3-4 pm, in the Robinson Lab lounge. Other times
and locations may occur.
Instructor: George Djorgovski, george@astro.caltech.edu, 221 Robinson,
(626) 395-4415
As you all figured it out, the May 19 class was Ditched due to the D-Day.
So we will cover the assigned stuff in our last meeting, on May 26:
Readings (you'll have to actually go to the library and xerox these -- how
quaint!)
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B. Carr & M. Rees, "The Anthropic Principle and the Structure of the Physical
World", Nature, 278, 605 (1979)
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J. Barrow, "The Lore of Large Numbers: Some Historical Background to the
Anthropic Principle", QJRAS, 22, 388 (1981)
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M. Harwit & R. Hildebrand, "How Many More Discoveries in the Universe?",
Nature, 320, 724 (1986)
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For a brief recent review on the limits on the possible changes in fundamental
constants, take a look at Varshalovich et al.,
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/physics/0004068
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And if you are idle and curious, take a look at:
L. Smolin, "Did the Universe Evolve?", Class. Quant. Grav. 9, 193 (1992).
He also wrote a popular book based on this idea, "The Life of the Cosmos",
QB981.S694 (1997)
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Or if you are extra enterprising, search astro-ph for articles by John Barrow,
or for titles including "anthropic"
Previous reading assignments:
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M. Rees, "Introductory Lecture" from NATO ASI on Cosmology
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912373
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M. Turner and J.A. Tyson, "Cosmology at the Millennium",
Rev.Mod.Phys. 71 (1999) S145-S164,
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901113
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S. M. Carroll, "The Cosmological Constant"
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004075
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The Nature of the Dark Matter
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D. Stern and H. Spinrad: "Search Techniques for Distant Galaxies",
PASP, 111, 1475 (Dec. 1999)
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M. Dickinson: "The first galaxies: structure and stellar populations",
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004028,
to appear in Phil. Trans. RAS (2000).
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C. Pritchet: "The Search for Primeval Galaxies",
PASP, 106, 1052 (1994)
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For the early history of PG searches,
here is a note
from one of the pioneers, Dave Meier
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M. Rees, "First Light in the Universe; What Ended the Dark Age?",
to appear in Phys. Rep. (1999?);
also
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912345
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A. Loeb, "The First Sources of Light in the Universe",
in:
"The Hy-Redshift Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at High Redshift",
eds. A.J. Bunker & W.J.M. van Breugel,
ASP Conf. Ser. 193, 586 (1999);
also
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907187
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A. Fabian, "The Energy Output of the Universe"
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001178
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P. Madau, "Cosmic Star Formation History and the Brightness of the Night Sky",
http://www.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907268
(or search astro-ph for other similar articles by Madau)
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A. Blain et al., "Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Fuelling in Hierarchical
Models of Galaxy Evolution", to appear in MNRAS,
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9906311
(perhaps too technical for this forum, and possibly biased)
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A. Fabian et al., "Testing the Connection Between the X-ray and Submillimetre
Source Populations Using Chandra", to appear in MNRAS,
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0002322
(very preliminary, but take a look if you are curious)
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If you can find a copy of the ASPCS vol. 193, "The Hy-Redshift Universe",
take a look at the reviews by Dwek and Madau.
A bunch of links, some relevant