ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes
Date
Slides (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
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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, 10
Spring 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
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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 21
Exam
Prof. McGaugh away
at
Rethinking the
Dark Matter Paradigm