Relevant textbooks
ASTR 333
ASTR 433

Spring 2020
TR 11:30AM-12:45PM
Sears 552

Prof. Stacy McGaugh
stacy.mcgaugh [at] case.edu
Sears 558
368-1808

Office Hours
T 2-3PM
W 2:20-3:20PM

 ? Galaxies in the Universe
Sparke & Gallagher

Galactic Dynamics
Binney & Tremaine
B&T errata

Galactic Astronomy
Binney & Merrifield
B&M errata

Cosmological Physics
Peacock

Principles of Physical Cosmology
Peebles

Galaxy Formation & Evolution
Mo, van den Bosch & White
rogue internet version

Introduction To Particle Dark Matter
S. Profumo
related arxiv paper

The Dark Matter Problem
R.H. Sanders

(on reserve)
Course Links

Lecture Notes & Slides

Outline
Course Work and Grades
Course Description
Learning Outcomes
Syllabus (the preceding links) in PDF format.

Homework Assignments
Homework 1
Homework 2
Extra credit: Write a cheat sheet for the midterm that would have been.
Homework 3
Homework 4

Course News

The Final has been distributed by email. You should have it by now. Let me know if you did not!
It is due Thursday Apr 30 by 3pm.

Course Evaluations are open through May 7.

Useful Links

Review Literature
Some useful numbers
Astronomical magnitude systems
ADS (the NASA Astrophysical Data System), an excellent way to search the literature.
arXiv e-print archive (astro-ph). Most physics & astronomy papers appear here as preprints.
Level 5, an Extragalactic Kowledgebase at NED.

Useless Links

Dark Matter in popular culture
Monty Python's Galaxy Song (the quoted numbers are correct, as best known at the time).