| Professor: | Jeffrey Kenney jeff.kenney@yale.edu |
office: 46 Hillhouse, room 102 phone: 203-432-3013 |
| Course Description: |
A survey of the contents, morphology, structure, and kinematics of galaxies;
star formation and the interstellar medium in galaxies; chemical evolution;
galaxy interactions and the environments of galaxies.
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| Prerequisites for Undergraduates: |
Physics 201 and Math 120 and one Astronomy course numbered above 200. | |
| Texts: | Sparke & Gallagher "Galaxies in the Universe" (2007, 2nd edition ) (SG)
Paper ISBN-13: 978-0521855938 ($52 on Amazon)
Binney & Merrifield "Galactic Astronomy" (1998) (BM) Paper ISBN-13: 978-0691025650 ( $85.00 list, $67 on Amazon) These books MIGHT be available at the Yale Bookstore, or students could order these books themselves e.g., on Amazon plus other assigned readings |
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| Grading: | 45% Homework (~weekly) 25% Midterm Exam 30% Final Exam | |
| Important Dates: |
Oct 18 (Mon) -- Midterm Exam, (in classroom at classtime) Oct 29 (Fri) -- Last day to withdraw w/o transcript record, or change from AUDIT to grade (grad students); or to change from grade to Cr/D/F (undergrads) Dec 21 (Tues) -- Final Exam (9am-12noon, location TBD) | |
| Website: | www.astro.yale.edu/astro430 | |
Syllabus (01sept21)
| DATE | LECTURE (slides on canvas) | READING |
|---|---|---|
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Wed Sept 1 |
1. Introduction and Galaxy Classification |
SG 1.2.0, 1.3.0, BM 1, 2.5, 4.0-4.1.1 |
| Fri Sept 3 | 2.Quantitive Morphology, Radial Light Distributions, LSBs | SG1.1.5, 1.3.1(p 42-44), 5.0, 5.1.0, 5.1.2 BM2.3, 4.2, 4.4.0-4.4.3; McCracken photometry slides (pp 1-14+) |
| Wed Sept 8 | 3. Non-parametric Quantitive Morphology & Vertical Light Distributions | Conselice 2014, 1-2.3.4 SG 2.2.2 |
| Mon Sept 13 | 4. Disk Kinematics: Introduction, Observations | SG [3.0,3.1,]5.3.0-5.3.1 ,BM8.2.4(pp 505-507) |
| Wed Sept 15 | 5. Disk Kinematics: Rotation Curves, Galaxy Masses | SG 5.3.2, BM8.2.4(p 507-510) |
| Mon Sept 20 |
6. Disk Kinematics:Tully-Fisher Relationship
| SG 5.3.3 ,BM7.3.4 |
| Wed Sept 22 |
7. Disk Kinematics: Tully-Fisher Relationship & the LSB mystery & Spiral Structure
| McGaugh 2005a,b |
| Mon Sept 27 |
8. Spiral Structure
| SG5.4, 5.5.0-5.5.2 ,BM4.4.6 |
| Wed Sept 29 |
9.Bars
| SG5.5.3, BM4.4.7, 8.2.4(p 510-513) |
| Mon Oct 4 |
10. Bulges, Pseudobulges & Warps
| SG 6.0-6.1 ; BM 4.3.0-4.3.3 ; Kormendy 2013 |
| Wed Oct 6 |
11.
Ellipticals: Photometry
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| Mon Oct 11 |
12.
Ellipticals: Kinematics
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SG 6.2.0-6.2.4; BM 4.3.4, 7.3.4
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| Wed Oct 13 |
13. Ellipticals: Evidence for Mergers & Accretion, Fundamental Plane
| BM 11.2.2 (p 716) |
| Mon Oct 18 |
MIDTERM EXAM
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| Mon Oct 25 |
14. ISM & HI in galaxies
| SG 1.2.1, 2.3.2, 5.2 ;BM 3.7, 8.1 (some), 8.2-8.2.3 ; Condon & Ramson 2.2-2.2.2, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.8-7.8.2 |
| Wed Oct 27 |
15. HI in galaxies, pt 2
| SG 1.2.1, 2.3.2, 5.2 ;BM 3.7, 8.1 (some), 8.2-8.2.3 ; Condon & Ramson 2.2-2.2.2, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.8-7.8.2 |
| Mon Nov 1 | 16. Molecular Gas in galaxies | Heyer & Dame 2015 |
| Wed Nov 3 | 17. Measuring Star Formation Rates in Galaxies |
BM 8.2.8, Kennicutt & Evans (2012) |
| Mon Nov 8 | 18. Star Formation Histories in Galaxies & Relation Between Star Formation and Gas Content | SG 1.1.1-1.1.4, 6.3 (stellar pops) BM 5.4, Leroy etal. 2015 |
| Wed Nov 10 | 19. Starbursts, Feedback & Winds | |
| Mon Nov 15 | 20. X-Ray Emission & Hot Gas in Galaxies | SG 6.3 (gas), 6.4.1, BM 8.3, 8.4 |
| Wed Nov 17 | 21. Chemical Evolution -- Closed Box Model |
SG 4.3, BM 5.2-5.3, 8.2.6
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| Mon Nov 29 | 22. Chemical Evolution -- Leaky & Accreting Box Models | |
| Wed Dec 1 | 23. Luminosity Functions | BM 4.1.3 SG pp 44-46 |
| Mon Dec 6 | 24. Mergers & Tidal Interactions | SG 5.6.2 ; BM 4.6.0-4.6.1 |
| Wed Dec 8 | 25. Environments of Galaxies: Groups, Clusters, Superclusters | SG 4.2.4, 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 6.5-6.5.2, BM 4.1.2, 4.1.4 |
notation on reading assignments:
"0" means 1st part of section or chapter, before sub-sections start
Errata! please check Sparke & Gallagher Errata and Binney & Merrifield Errata
key to other readings:
McCracken, "An Introduction to photometry and photometric measurements", PPT slides
Condon & Ramson "Essential Radio Astronomy" https://science.nrao.edu/opportunities/courses/era
Conselice, C. 2014 Annual Reviews of A&A
Heyer, M. & Dame, T. 2015, Annual Reviews of A&A
Leroy, A. etal. 2015, ApJ, 801, 25
McGaugh, S. 2005a, ApJ, 632, 859
McGaugh, S. 2005b, PRL, 95, 171302
Kennicutt & Evans (2012), Annual Reviews of A&A
Kormendy, John 2013, SECULAR EVOLUTION IN DISK GALAXIES Published in "Secular Evolution of Galaxies", by J. Falcón-Barroso, and Johan H. Knapen, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013, p.1 http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2609
Guidelines for HW problems in Astro430/530
- write down given & other relevant information
- write down relevant equations
- draw diagrams when helpful or relevant
- show all work
- explain all steps, using words as well as equations
- leave plenty of space for yourself, and for me to write corrections & comments
- solve problem as far as you can analytically
- if you solve something numerically, say how you did it (e.g. calculator, mathematica, computer program that you wrote)
Homework Assignments (on canvas)
- Homework 1 due Wed Sep 8
- Homework 2 due Wed Sep 15
Galaxy Image Websites