ASTR 333/433: Dark Matter
Lecture Notes

Slides, notes and other useful things will appear here.

DateSlides (pdf)Notes (pdf)RecordingReadingEvents
Jan 13 The Missing Mass Problem - - Chapter 1
Jan 15 Flavors of Dark Matter Dark matter Candidates audio Chapter 1
Jan 20 Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies Virial Theorem audio Chapter 2
Jan 22 Disk Stability The Oort Discrepancy audio thin galaxies
Jan 27 Baryonic content of galaxies Mass components
Stellar populations
audio galaxy primer
Jan 29 Orbits & Disk Heating Limits Oort Constants & Epicycles
Potential-Density Pairs
audio Mass Modeling
Feb 3 Dark Matter Halos Halo models | Overdensities
NFW math | IAU 100
audio Chapter 6.3
Feb 5 Rotation Curves & Tully-Fisher Laws of Galactic Rotation
Tully-Fisher scalings
audio Chapter 3
Tully-Fisher
HW1 Due
Feb 10 Rotation curve shapes & the RAR Galactic Laws elaborated audio The RAR
More RAR
Feb 12 Elliptical galaxy dynamics Phase space | Anisotropy audio galaxy primer
Feb 17 Rotation curve fitting Monolithic galaxy formation
Hierarchical structure formation
Halo Models
audio (truncated)
Feb 19 Hieratchical galaxy formation Overdensities audio Galaxy formation basics
Galaxy formation timescale
Feb 24 - - - - Starkman talk
Feb 26 CDM "small scale" problems Mass functions audio Chapter 6.3
Mar 3 Midterm review Midterm Review HW2 Due
Mar 5 Midterm - - - Midterm
Mar 10, 12Spring Break--
Mar 17 - - - - Primordial Black Holes
Mar 19 Galaxy Clusters Timing Argument
Orbit Theory
audio Chapter 4
clusters ruin everything
Mar 24 Gravitational Lensing Gravitational Lensing
Kamionkowski notes
audio Chapter 4
indefinitely flat?
Mar 26 Missing Mass Problems Neutrino Hierarchy audio Chapter 8
Baryons in the IGM
Mar 31 Mass & Baryon Density Big Bang Nucleosynthesis audio Chapter 5.1
Apr 2 Weakly Interacting Massive Particles WIMP Channels
Relic abundance
audio Chapter 9
what if?
HW3 Due
Apr 7 WIMP Detection Experiments Experimental experience
DM detection in MW?
audio Chapters 12, 13
2022 update
2024 update
Apr 9 Dark Matter Candiates Non-WIMP Dark Matter audio (truncated) Chapters 10, 11
Apr 14 - MOND Basics - MOND pages Postdoc prize
Apr 16 MOND MOND Predictions - MOND paradigm
Apr 21 Tests of MOND - - MOND review
Apr 23 Other Tests - audio - HW4 Due
Apr 28 Final Review Previous notes - - Reading Day
Apr 30 Final (12-3PM) - - - Final

The corresponding material from previous semesters can be found here: Spring 2024 | Fall 2021 | Spring 2020 | Spring 2018 | Spring 2016 | Fall 2013