ASTR 421: Galaxies
Lecture slides

DateSlides (pdf)Audio (mp3)
Jan. 25Galaxy Morphology
Feb. 1Stellar Spectral Types
Feb. 3Magnitude Systems
Feb. 8Filter Systems
Feb. 10Stars audio
Feb. 15Stellar Evolution audio
Feb. 17The Luminosity Function and IMF audio
Feb. 22Cosmology audio
Feb. 24Galactic Structure audio
Mar. 1More Galactic Structure audio
Mar. 3Galactic Kinematics audio
Mar. 8Galactic Constants audio
Mar. 10Cosmological Overdensities audio
Mar. 15The Epicycle Approximation audio
Mar. 17Second Homework Review audio
Mar. 29Midterm review audio
Apr. 5Virial Theorem audio
Apr. 7The Local Group audio
Apr. 12AGN (Prof. Veilleux)
Apr. 14Elliptical Galaxies audio
Apr. 19Potential-Density Pairs
Apr. 21Evidence for Dark Matter
Apr. 26More Dark Matter audio
Apr. 28What is the Dark Matter? audio
May 3Detecting Dark Matter audio
May 5Dynamical Systematics audio
May 10Dark Matter/MOND discussion
Vote after class discussion:
Dark Matter: 7 | MOND: 3 | Abstain: 3
audio
May 11Review