PS 195G course web page (Fall 2009; Prof. Rachford)

Main information

• Syllabus

Homework

• "Chapter 0": Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 1/2: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 3/4: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 5/6: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 7/8: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 9/10: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 11/12: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 13/14: Questions | Solutions
• Chapter 15/16/17: Questions | Solutions (not yet!)

Lecture notes

• "Chapter 0"
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Exoplanets
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17 (not yet!)

General links

• Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

Links related to specific lecture notes

Chapter 1

• Chapter 1 Explorations images
• Page 4 - Stonehenge
• Page 4 - Stonehenge - National Geographic
• Page 4 - Enuma Anu Enlil
• Page 5 - Aristotle
• Page 8 - Celestial sphere demo
• Page 11 - Eratosthenes
• Page 12 - Hipparchus
• Page 13 - Ptolemy
• Page 16 - Copernicus
• Page 18 - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
• Page 19 - The Galileo Project
• Page 19 - Galileo Galilei
• Page 20 - Tycho Brahe
• Page 21 - Johannes Kepler
• Page 25 - Moon phase animation

Chapter 2

• Chapter 2 Explorations images
• Page 2 - Isaac Newton
• Page 2 - Principia Mathematica
• Page 10 - Gravity map of the Earth
• Page 10 - Feather vs. hammer on the Moon
• Page 10 - Hopping on the Moon
• Page 10 - Gravity wells

Chapter 3

• Chapter 3 Explorations images
• Page 6 - Electromagnetic spectrum
• Page 6 - Electromagnetic spectrum
• Page 6 - Radio frequency allocation chart
• Page 10 - Table of Isotopes
• Page 19 - APOD: Solar spectrum
• Page 24 - Atmospheric transmission

Chapter 4

• Page 2 - Timeline of observing technology
• Page 3 - World's largest telescopes
• Page 3 - Our national optical observatory
• Page 3 - Space observatory (Wikipedia)
• Page 3 - Orbiting astronomical observatories
• Page 6 - Adaptive optics tutorial
• Page 7 - "Worlds largest single CCD"
• Page 7 - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Chapter 5

• Chapter 5 Explorations images
• Page 2 - The Nine Planets: Earth
• Page 3 - Deepest drilled hole
• Page 3 - Recent earthquakes
• Page 3 - Overall interior structure of the Earth
• Page 9 - Volcanoes and tectonic plates
• Page 9 - Plate tectonics animations
• Page 9-13 - This dynamic Earth
• Page 9-13 - This dynamic planet viewer
• Page 13 - Hawaiian hotspot
• Page 13 - San Francisco Volcanic Field
• Page 15 - Atmospheric structure
• Page 17 - Magnetosphere overview
• Page 18 - Real-time solar wind data
• Page 18 - SOHO/LASCO coronal imaging
• Page 18 - My aurora page
• Page 18 - Aurora movie
• Page 18 - Another aurora movie
• Page 18 - Another aurora movie

Chapter 6

• Chapter 6 Explorations images
• Page 1 - The Nine Planets: Moon
• Page 2 - Moon phase animation
• Page 4-5 - NASA eclipse site
• Page 5 - 1979 solar eclipse (most recent one in Lower 48 states; 6:00)
• Page 6 - NASA Moon page
• Page 7 - Breccia
• Page 7 - Anorthosite
• Page 9 - Giant Impact Theory
• Page 9 - Giant impact simulation
• Page 10 - A meteorite impact on the Moon
• Page 14 - Top Ten Apollo discoveries

Chapter 7

• Chapter 7 Explorations images
• Page 2 - Solar system overview
• Page 2 - Solar system object discovery history
• Page 2 - Solar system data
• Page 2 - Naming information
• Page 4 - Bok globules
• Page 5 - Solar nebula (artist's conception)
• Page 6 - Condensation temperature as a function of solar distance

Chapter 8

• Chapter 8 Explorations images
• Page 3-5 - The Nine Planets: Mercury
• Page 3 - NASA Mercury page
• Page 3 - Mercury Unveiled
• Page 6-10 - The Nine Planets: Venus
• Page 6 - NASA Venus page
• Page 6-10 - Other Magellan images
• Page 10 - Earth's radiation budget
• Page 11-22 - The Nine Planets: Mars
• Page 11 - Mars sketch
• Page 11-22 - NASA Mars page
• Page 11-18 - Google Mars
• Page 11 - Labeled maps
• Page 13 - Olympus Mons
• Page 13 - Olympus Mons
• Page 13 - Recent volcanism
• Page 14 - Valles Marineris fly through
• Page 18 - Water ice in a crater
• Page 21-22 - Life on Mars?

Chapter 9

• Chapter 9 Explorations images
• Page 2 - The Nine Planets: Jupiter
• Page 2 - The Nine Planets: Saturn
• Page 2 - The Nine Planets: Uranus
• Page 2 - The Nine Planets: Neptune
• Page 3 - Voyager mission
• Page 3 - Voyager "Grand Tour" path
• Page 3 - Many planets in the sky, November 30th, 1997
• Page 3 - Galileo mission
• Page 3 - Cassini-Huygens mission
• Page 6-9 - NASA Jupiter page
• Page 6-9 - Jupiter approach movie
• Page 7-9 - NASA Saturn page
• Page 7-9 - NASA Uranus page
• Page 7-9 - NASA Neptune page
• Page 10 - Jovian thunderstorms
• Page 10 - More jovian lightning
• Page 10 - Great Dark Spot movie
• Page 10 - Saturn's aurora
• Page 11 - Jupiter's moons
• Page 12-14 - Galileo mission
• Page 12 - The Nine Planets: Ganymede
• Page 12 - The Nine Planets: Callisto
• Page 13 - The Nine Planets: Europa
• Page 13-14 - The Nine Planets: Io
• Page 16 - Saturns's moons
• Page 17 - Titan
• Page 17 - Cassini-Huygens images of Saturns moons
• Page 18 - Uranus' moons
• Page 19 - Neptune's moons
• Page 20-21 - Planetary Rings Node

Chapter 10

• Chapter 10 Explorations images
• Page 3 - The Nine Planets: Pluto
• Page 3 - NASA Pluto page
• Page 3 - Pluto discovery photos
• Page 3 - Hubble pictures of Pluto
• Page 3 - Discovery of Pluto's atmosphere
• Page 3 - Pluto/Charon eclipses
• Page 4 - The Nine Planets: Kuiper Belt
• Page 4 - Eris page
• Page 4 - Kuiper Belt page
• Page 5 - NASA Oort clouds page
• Page 6 - The Nine Planets: Comets
• Page 9 - NASA comet page
• Page 9 - My comet photos
• Page 10 - NASA asteroid page
• Page 11 - My meteor shower page
• Page 11-13 - NASA meteor page
• Page 12 - SL-9 animations
• Page 13 - Earth impact database

Exoplanets

• Exoplanet Encyclopedia
• Page 17 - XO Project
• Page 24 - Fomalhaut planet image
• Page 24 - HR 8799 planetary system image
• Page 24 - NASA Kepler mission

Chapter 11

• Page 2-17 - Solar science at NASA
• Page 2 - The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas
• Page 2 - Nine Planets: Sun
• Page 3 - Current solar images
• Page 3 - More current solar images
• Page 5 - Real-time solar corona images
• Page 7 - Solar granulation quiz
• Page 7 - Solar granulation images
• Page 7 - Solar granulation movies
• Page 7 - Galileo's sunspot movie
• Page 8 - Solar cycle page
• Page 8 - Space Weather Prediction Center
• Page 9 - SOHO/LASCO coronal imaging
• Page 9 - SOHO movies

Chapter 12

• Chapter 12 Explorations images
• Page 3 - Early radar measurement of the AU
• Page 4-5,17 - Hipparcos mission
• Page 7 - Apparent magnitude
• Page 7 - A simple star chart
• Page 7-9 - Brightest stars (sorted)
• Page 9 - World electricity consumption
• Page 9 - Other electricity consumption numbers
• Page 12 - Solar spectrum
• Page 12-13 - Digital spectral atlas
• Page 15 - Interferometric imaging of a star
• Page 15 - Lunar occultation examples
• Page 15 - A bunch of eclipsing binary light curves
• Page 15 - Eclipsing binary movie
• Page 15 - Variable star types
• Page 15 - Variable star naming schemes

Chapter 13

• Chapter 13 Explorations images
• Page 3 - APOD H II regions
• Page 6 - APOD dark nebulae
• Page 6 - APOD reflection nebulae
• Page 7 - Star cluster formation simulation
• Page 8 - Orion molecular cloud
• Page 8 - My Orion photos
• Page 9 - Cocoon Nebula
• Page 12 - Stellar lifetimes (technical!)
• Page 15 - Omega Centauri (globular cluster)
• Page 15 - 47 Tucana (globular cluster)
• Page 15 - Evolution of a globular cluster
• Page 16 - APOD open clusters

Chapter 14

• Chapter 14 Explorations images
• Page 2 - APOD planetary nebulae
• Page 6 - 1054 AD supernova remnant
• Page 7 - SN 1987A before and after
• Page 9 - Crab Nebula pulsar
• Page 9 - Pulsar beacon animation
• Page 9 - Pulsar speeding up
• Page 12-13 - Cygnus X-1
• Page 12-13 - Gamma-ray burst animations
• Page 12-13 - Gravitational distortion of light near black holes and neutron stars
• Page 13 - Gravitational wave shapes
• Page 13 - Listening to gravitational waves from a black hole merger

Chapter 15

• Chapter 15 Explorations images
• Page 2-3 - Milky Way (visible light)
• Page 2-3 - Milky Way (visible light)
• Page 2-3 - Milky Way (infrared light)
• Page 2-3 - Milky Way (X-rays)
• Page 2-3 - Milky Way (gamma rays)
• Page 2-3 - Artist's conception of Milky Way from outside
• Page 10 - Milky Way rotation curve (technical paper)
• Page 10 - Galaxy rotation curves (technical paper)
• Page 13 - Galactic center (visible)
• Page 13 - Galactic center (radio waves)
• Page 13 - Arches cluster near Galactic center
• Page 13 - Galactic center close-up (infrared)
• Page 13 - Galactic center close-up (radio and far-infrared)
• Page 13 - "The Swarm"
• Page 13 - Galactic center close-up (X-rays)
• Page 15 - Evidence for Milky Way black hole
• Page 15 - Same evidence for Milky Way black hole

Chapter 16

• Chapter 16 Explorations images
• Page 2 - Galaxies with the unaided eye
• Page 4 - Period-luminosity relationship for Milky Way Cepheids (technical paper)
• Page 4 - Historic paper by Edwin Hubble on Cepheids in other galaxies
• Page 5 - A supernova light curve (technical paper)
• Page 5 - Supernova types
• Page 5 - A supernova in a nearby galaxy
• Page 7-9 - Ground-based galaxy images
• Page 7-9 - Hubble Space Telescope galaxy images
• Page 11 - Galactic cannibalism
• Page 11 - We're next?
• Page 12 - Hubble's Hubble Law paper (technical paper)
• Page 12 - Modern Hubble Law data from the Hubble Space Telescope (technical paper)
• Page 13 - Bright quasar 3C 273
• Page 13 - Quasar pictures
• Page 13 - Red-shifted quasar emission lines
• Page 17 - Radio galaxy Centaurus A
• Page 17 - M87 galaxy
• Page 17 - M87 jet
• Page 17 - M87 jet close-up
• Page 18 - Schematic diagram of an AGN
• Page 19 - The local universe
• Page 19 - Compact galaxy groups