ASTR 497 - MOND - Spring 2023
- Readings
- Thu 19 Jan:
- Ostriker & Steinhardt (1995) |
McGaugh et al. (1995)
| Discussion leader: McGaugh
- Tue 24 Jan:
- Milgrom (1983a)
| Discussion leader: MONDsters
- Thu 26 Jan:
- Milgrom (1983b)
| Discussion leader: DynamicalDuo
- Tue 31 Jan:
- Milgrom (1983b) (section VIII)
| Discussion leader: Ducks
- Milgrom (1983c)
| Discussion leader: alMOND
- Thu 2 Feb:
- Felten (1984) |
Bekenstein & Milgrom (1984)
| Discussion leader: the Heretics
- Tue 7 Feb:
- Scarpa (2006) | Discussion Leaders assigned by section:
- Introduction & MOND Basics: McGaugh
- MOND and
- Galaxy Rotation Curves: the Heretics
- Thu 9 Feb:
- the T-F and F-J Relations: the Ducks
- Elliptical Galaxies: DynamicalDuo
- Galaxy Clusters: alMOND
- Tue 14 Feb:
- Gravitational Lensing: the MONDsters
- Milgrom on lensing: the Ducks
- The External Field Effect: alMOND
- A more technical discussion of the EFE: the Heretics
- A note on the EFE in modified inertia theories: DynamicalDuo
- Sections IV.C and D of Models of modified-inertia formulation of MOND: McGaugh
- Thu 16 Feb:
- No class: attend Steinhardt colloquium in Physics
- Tue 21 Feb:
- Begeman, Broeils, & Sanders (1991) | Discussion leader: the Heretics
- Thu 23 Feb:
- No class: attend Nagy colloquium in Physics
- Tue 28 Feb:
- Begeman, Broeils, & Sanders (1991) | Discussion leader: the Heretics
- 2 Mar:
- Lecture on galaxies
- 7 Mar:
- Lecture on rotation curve data
- 9 Mar:
- Spontaneous 21 cm discussion
- 14-16 Mar: Spring Break
- 21 Mar:
- Hypothesis testing with gas rich galaxies | All
- 23 Mar:
- Declining Rotation Curves at High Redshift? | All
- 28 Mar:
- Discussion of IAU 379
- 30 Mar:
- Lecture on dynamical regularities.
- Supplementary reading: Dynamical Regularities in Rotating Galaxies
- 4 Apr:
- Predictions and Outcomes for the Dynamics of Rotating Galaxies | All
- 6 Apr:
- Steinmetz colloquium (11:30AM in Sears 552)
- Joyce colloquium (4:00PM in Rock 301)
- 11 Apr:
- Predictions and Outcomes for the Dynamics of Rotating Galaxies (continued) | All
- 13 Apr:
- Lopez-Corredoira et al.: Virial theorem in clusters of galaxies with MOND | Ducks
- 18 Apr:
- Eckert et al.: The gravitational field of X-COP galaxy clusters | DynamicalDuo
- 20 Apr:
- Springel & Farrar: The speed of the `bullet' in the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 | Heretics
- Angus & McGaugh: The collision velocity of the bullet cluster in conventional and modified dynamics | MONDsters
- Asencio, Banik, & Kroupa: A massive blow for LCDM - the high redshift, mass, and collision velocity of the interacting galaxy cluster El Gordo contradicts concordance cosmology | alMOND
- 25 Apr:
- Structure formation in MOND
- Especially Sanders (1998): Cosmology with Modified Newtonian Dynamics
- and Mo, Mao, & White (1998): The Formation of Galactic Disks
- Read what the abstracts of these contemporaneous papers say about the formation redshifts of galaxies.
- Related blog posts:
- What JWST will see
- JWST Twitter Bender
- An Early Result from JWST
- Early Galaxy Formation and the Hubble Constant Tension
- Can't be explained by science!
- 27 Apr:
- Blog posts:
Predictions and
Results for the acoustic power spectrum of the cosmic microwave bacground.
- Related science papers:
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