Tuesday Jan 18:
Reading:
Pages 1-37 of Galactic Dynamics by Binney & Tremaine for some
background and context on studying the Milky Way galaxy.
Thursday Jan 20:
Reading:
First half of Chapter 2 of Galaxies in the Universe by
Sparke and Gallagher (pages 58-85).
(Supplementary) Pages 102 - 115 of
Galactic Astronomy by Binney and Merrifield and Pages 327 - 361 of
Binney and Merrifield.
Tuesday Jan 25:
Reading:
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. I. Stellar Number
Density Distribution - Juric et al. 2008, ApJ, 673, 864
Thursday Jan 27:
Reading:
The Accretion Origin of the Milky Way's Stellar
Halo, by Bell et al., 2008 ApJ, 680, 295
Solving Mysteries about the birth and growth of our
galaxy -Astronomy magazine article about mapping the distribution
of metals in the Milky Way (May 29, 2008)
Thursday Feb 3:
Project Set 1 due Thursday Feb 3. Please type as much
of your work as possible.
Tuesday Feb 8:
Reading: Galactic Astronomy, pages 306-308 (Closed box model of
Chemical Evolution)
Supplementary reading: A Comparison
of Elemental Abundance Ratios in Globular Clusters, Field Stars, and
Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. We will discuss a figure from this
paper in class. You may like to puruse the paper's introduction and
summary before class.
Thursday Feb 10:
Reading: Chapter 3 from Sparke and Gallagher, through the end of
Section 3.1 (pg. 124).
Project Set 2 due Thursday Feb 17.
Please type as much of your work as is reasonable.
Tuesday Feb 15:
Reading: Same as last Thursday - Chapter 3 from Sparke and Gallagher,
through the end of Section 3.1 (pg. 124).
Thursday Feb 17 and Tuesday Feb 22:
Reading: Sparke and Gallagher, Section 3.2; Section 4.1.4
Thursday Feb 24:
Reading: Sections 2 and 3 of Bahcall and Tremaine (1981)
Tuesday March 1 and Thursday March 3:
Reading: Two papers by Ghez et al. about the Milky Way's black
hole. Ghez
et al (1998) and Ghez et al
(2008).
Project Set 3 due Tuesday March 15.
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