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Course Work

A guide to the pre-course work can be found here. Links and files needed to complete this work are below:

• Pre-course work #1: Background Survey

• Pre-course work #2: Links to set-up compting
  • Sublime Text Editor
  • Anconda python distribution
  • Guide to plotting in python
  • Intro to Python more resources on the computing page

• Pre-course work #3: Image puzzles
  • example.py
  • puzzle1.png
  • puzzle2.png
  • Tutorial on reading color images into python.

• Pre-Course Work #4: HST Color Images
  • Making RGB images from FITS files with python
    • Data for Object 1: Arp 194
    • Data for Object 2: Cat’s Eye Nebula
    • Data for Object 3: NGC 3949
  • A longer discussion on creating color images
  
  
• Pre-Course Work #5: Introduction to Asteroids
  • Talk by D. Trilling
  • Talk by K. Walsh

In-Course Materials

• Links for Lecture #1
  • Scale Solar system
  • Table of known exoplanets
  • bounce.py

• Links for Lecture #2
  • Rosetta Satellite Article
  • Galaxy Merger Simulations
  • List of Nearby Galaxies

• Links for Lecture #3
  • How to Find an Asteroid Problem Set
  • La Silla-QUEST Night 1 data
  • La Silla-QUEST Night 2 data
  • Additional flat fields

• Links for Lecture #4
  • LHC rap

• Links for Lecture #5
  • Toomre.py and optional problem set
  • Barnes&Hut tree code See PS#6+7 on this page.

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