ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes

DateSlides (pdf)Notes (pdf)Audio (mp3)
Jan 12 The Missing Mass Problem Evidence & DM candidates Audio
Jan 14 Cold Dark Matter Virial Theorem Audio
Jan 19 Galaxy Morphology Oort Discrepancy Audio
Jan 21 Galaxy Photometry Disk Stability Audio
Jan 26 Stars & Gas The Stellar IMF & the ISM Audio
Jan 28 - Potential-Density Pairs Audio
Feb 2 Galactic Coordinates Jeans Equations Audio
Feb 4 (Galactic) Bars Oort & Epicycles Audio
Feb 9 Laws of Galactic Rotation Three Laws Audio
Feb 11 Baryonic Tully-Fisher Three Laws Audio
Feb 16 Third Law Intoduction to halo models Audio
Feb 18 Fitting halo models to data Overdensities Audio
Feb 23 Galaxy Formation Galaxy Formation Audio
Feb 25 - Midterm Review -
Mar 1 Midterm - -
Mar 3 Adiabatic Compression Orbital Anisotropy Audio
Mar 8, 10Spring Break--
Mar 15 Scaling Relations Feedback Audio
Mar 17 Missing Satellites Mass functions Audio
Mar 22 Too Big to Fail Timing Problem Audio
Mar 24 TDGs & Clusters - Audio
Mar 29 Superfluid Dark Matter Khoury -
Mar 31 Gravitational Lensing Gravitational Lensing Audio *
Apr 5 Cosmology Peculiar Velocities Audio
Apr 7-Prof. McGaugh away watch Dark Matter
or Modified Gravity?
Apr 12 WIMPs - Audio
Apr 14 WIMP detection Modified Gravity Audio
Apr 19 MOND Final Review Audio
Apr 21ExamProf. McGaugh away at Rethinking the
Dark Matter Paradigm

* There was some technical glitch with the recorder. Only the last 16 minutes of class was captured. Unifortunately, none of the lively discussion of superfluid dark matter was preserved.