| M W F | 10 - 14 Jan | ** no class -- AAS meeting |
| Mon | 17 Jan | ** no class -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday | |
| Wed | 19 Jan | Milky Way - basic structure {pp.1-19} | |
| Fri | 21 Jan | Milky Way - disk & bulge {pp.26-50} |
| Mon | 7 Feb | Normal Galaxies - computer modeling | |
lab |
modeling with synthetic stellar spectra | ||
| Wed | 9 Feb | Normal Galaxies - stellar dynamics (disk vs. bulge) | |
| Fri | 11 Feb | Normal Galaxies - luminosity, velocity, and mass |
| Mon | 14 Feb | Normal Galaxies - formation and evolution | |
lab |
modeling interactions between gas and stars | ||
| Wed | 16 Feb | Normal Galaxies - starbursts | Homework #2 due |
| Fri | 18 Feb | Normal Galaxies - unsolved problems |
| Mon | 21 Feb | Active Galaxies - the AGN zoo | |
lab |
Gamma Ray Bursts - observations and models | ||
| Wed | 23 Feb | Active Galaxies - discovery of quasars | |
| Fri | 25 Feb | Active Galaxies - radio galaxies | 1st paper due |
| Mon | 28 Feb | Active Galaxies - supermassive black holes | |
| lab | multiwavelength observations of AGN | ||
| Wed | 2 Mar | Active Galaxies - optical line emission | Homework #3 due |
| Fri | 4 Mar | Active Galaxies - Seyfert Galaxies |
| Mon | 7 Mar | Active Galaxies - iron lines and black hole spin | |
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| Wed | 9 Mar | Active Galaxies - accretion and the Eddington limit | |
| Fri | 11 Mar | Active Galaxies - unified model |
| Mon | 14 Mar | Active Galaxies - iron lines and black hole spin | |
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| Wed | 16 Mar | Active Galaxies - evolution | |
| Fri | 18 Mar | Active Galaxies - unsolved problems | Homework #4 due |
| M W F | 21-25 Mar | ** no class -- Spring Break |
| Mon | 28 Mar | Clusters of Galaxies - distribution of galaxies | |
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| Wed | 30 Mar | Clusters of Galaxies - Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect | |
| Fri | 1 Apr | Clusters of Galaxies - mergers and dynamical friction |
| Mon | 4 Apr | General Relativity - | |
lab |
Homework #5 due | ||
| Wed | 6 Apr | General Relativity - | |
| Fri | 8 Apr | General Relativity - gravitational redshift |
| Mon | 11 Apr | Cosmology - basic models | |
lab |
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| Wed | 13 Apr | Cosmology - cosmic microwave background | Homework #6 due |
| Fri | 15 Apr | Cosmology - key parameters |
| Mon | 18 Apr | Cosmology - primordial nucleosynthesis | |
lab |
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| Wed | 20 Apr | Cosmology - large scale structure | |
| Fri | 22 Apr | Cosmology - critical density |
| Mon | 25 Apr | Cosmology - accelerating expansion | 2nd paper due |
lab |
cosmological observations and measurements | ||
| Wed | 27 Apr | Cosmology - the end of all things | Homework #7 due |
| Fri | 29 Apr | Cosmology - unsolved problems |