ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes

DateSlides (pdf)Notes (pdf)Audio (mp3)
Jan 14 The Missing Mass Problem Notes Audio
Jan 16 The Virial Theorm Notes Audio
Jan 21 The Oort Discrepancy and Disk Stability Notes Audio
Jan 23 The Interstellar Medium Notes Audio
Jan 28 Velocity Fields; Stellar Populations Notes Audio
Jan 30 Galactic Kinematics Notes Audio
Feb 4 Bars, Spirals, & Mergers Notes Audio
Feb 6 Flat Rotation Curves Empirical Laws Audio
Feb 11 Tully-Fisher Potential-Density Pairs Audio
Feb 13 Radial Acceleration Relation Audio
Feb 18 Dark Matter Halo Models Notes | NFW halos Audio
Feb 20 Elliptical Galaxies Notes Audio
Feb 25 Phase Space Notes Audio
Feb 27 Adiabatic Compression Notes Audio
Mar 3 Big Trouble at Little Scales Notes Audio
Mar 5 Satellite Planes Audio
Mar 10, 12 Spring Break
Mar 17 Cancelled by Covid
Mar 19 Review Notes zoom
Mar 24 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis discussion zoom
Mar 26 Missing Baryons discussion zoom
Mar 31 Cluster Mass Estimators Gravitational Lensing zoom
Apr 2 MACHOs & Microlensing zoom
Apr 7 Mass Density & Power Spectra Peculiar velocities zoom
Apr 9 CMB & WIMPs Perturbation growth zoom
Apr 14 WIMP Detection WIMPs zoom
Apr 16 Modified Gravity MOND zoom
Apr 21 MOND MOND Review zoom
Apr 23 ASTR 433 Presentations zoom


Notes from 2018