ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes

Slides, notes and other useful things will appear here.

DateSlides (pdf)Notes (pdf)Recording
Jan 16 The Missing Mass Problem - Zoom
Jan 18 Flavors of Dark Matter Dark matter Candidates Zoom
Jan 23 Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies Virial Theorem Audio
Jan 25 Disk Stability The Oort Discrepancy Audio | Transcript
Jan 30 Baryonic content of galaxies Mass components
Stellar populations
Audio | Transcript
Feb 1 Orbits & Disk Heating Limits Oort Constants & Epicycles
Potential-Density Pairs
Audio
Feb 6 Dark Matter Halos Halo models | Overdensities
NFW math | IAU 100
Audio
Feb 8 Rotation Curves & Tully-Fisher Laws of Galactic Rotation
Tully-Fisher scalings
Audio
Feb 13 Rotation curve shapes & the RAR Galactic Laws elaborated Audio
Feb 15 Elliptical galaxy dynamics Phase space Audio
Feb 20 Astroparticle seminar:
Mechanical sensors for dark matter and neutrinos
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Feb 22 Rotation curve fitting Monolithic galaxy formation | Halo Models
Hierarchical structure formation | Overdensities
Audio
Feb 27 Galaxy formation Adiabatic Compression
Audio
Feb 29 CDM "small scale" problems Mass functions
Example Feedback scheme
Zoom fail
Mar 5 Midterm review Midterm Review Audio
Mar 7 Midterm - -
Mar 12, 14Spring Break--
Mar 19 Galaxy Clusters Timing Argument
Orbit Theory
Audio (failed at 0:56)
Mar 21 Gravitational Lensing Gravitational Lensing
Kamionkowski notes
Audio fail
Mar 26 Missing Mass Problems Neutrino Hierarchy Audio
Mar 28 Baryon Density Ωb Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Audio
Apr 2 Mass Density Ωm - Audio
Apr 4 Weakly Interacting Massive Particles WIMP Channels Audio
Apr 9 WIMP Detection Experiments (Eclipse discussion) Audio
Apr 11 Dark Matter Canddiates Non-WIMP Dark Matter Audio
Apr 16 Modified Gravity MOND Basics Audio
Apr 18 MOND Successes MOND Predictions Audio
Apr 23 Other Tests of MOND - Audio fail
Apr 25 Final Review Final Review
Anisotropy
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May 2 Final (12-3PM) - -

The corresponding material from previous semesters can be found here: Fall 2021 | Spring 2020 | Spring 2018 | Spring 2016 | Fall 2013