ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes

DateSlides (pdf)Notes (pdf)Audio (mp3)
Jan 16 The Missing Mass Problem - Audio
Jan 18 Flavors of Dark Matter Dark matter Candidates Audio
Jan 23 Galaxy Morphology Virial Theorem Audio
Jan 25 Exponential Disks The Oort Discrepancy Audio
Jan 30 Bars & Spirals Disk Stability Audio
Feb 1 Stellar Populations Mass Components Audio
Feb 6 ISM & Galactic Coordinates Timescales Audio
Feb 8 Terminal Velocities Oort Constants A & B
Potential-Density Pairs
Audio
Feb 13 Linblad resonances Phase Space Audio
Feb 15 Thick disk & dynamical friction IAU 100 Audio
Feb 20 The Tully-Fisher Relation Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation Audio
Feb 22 Rotation curve shapes Null hypothesis Audio
Feb 27 Mass discrepancies & acceleration - Audio
Mar 1 Halo Models Halo models
NFW halos
Overdensities
Audio
Mar 6 - Midterm Review -
Mar 8 Midterm - -
Mar 13, 15Spring Break--
Mar 20 Galaxy Formation Cosmic necessities -
Mar 22 Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Adiabatic Compression
Einasto Halos
Audio
Mar 27 Baryon Fractions Orbital Anisotropy Audio
29 Missing Satellites Mass functions Audio
Apr 3 Too Big to Fail Gravitational Lensing Audio
Apr 5 Galaxy Clusters - Audio
Apr 10 Cosmology Peculiar Velocities Audio
Apr 12 Power Spectra Perturbation Growth Audio
Apr 17 WIMP detection WIMPs Audio
Apr 19 ASTR 433 presentations--
Apr 24 MOND MOND
Final Review
Audio