ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes
Date
Slides (pdf)
Notes (pdf)
Audio (mp3)
Jan 16
The Missing Mass Problem
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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
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Audio
Mar 1
Halo Models
Halo models
NFW halos
Overdensities
Audio
Mar 6
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Midterm Review
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Mar 8
Midterm
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Mar 13, 15
Spring Break
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Mar 20
Galaxy Formation
Cosmic necessities
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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
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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
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Apr 24
MOND
MOND
Final Review
Audio