PS 340 course web page (Fall 2009; Prof. Rachford)
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Syllabus
Homework
Chapter 3a:
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Chapter 3b:
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Chapter 6:
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Chapter 8:
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Chapter 7:
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Chapter 10:
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Chapter 11:
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Chapter 12:
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Chapter 13:
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Chapter 16:
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Chapter 25:
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Chapter 27:
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Chapter 28:
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Lecture notes
"Chapter 0"
Chapter 3
Chapter 6
Chapter 8
Chapter 7
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 16
Chapter 25
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Class links
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Astrophysics Data System
Chapter 3
Hipparcos mission
Brightest stars
Brightest stars (sorted)
A simple star chart
Several photometric systems
Chapter 6
Timeline of observing technology
World's largest telescopes
Our national optical observatory
Space observatory (Wikipedia)
Orbiting astronomical observatories
Adaptive optics tutorial
Infrared atmospheric transmission
Chapter 7
Variable star types
Variable star naming schemes
A bunch of eclipsing binary light curves
The interesting case of VW Cephei
Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia
California Planet Search
Limb-darkening and exoplanet transit observations
Chapter 8
Digital spectral atlas
Solar spectrum
Example of a spectrum of a star with a chromosphere
Example of a planetary nebula spectrum
Example of an interstellar absorption spectrum
Boltzmann equation example (N4/N1, N3/N1, and N2/N1 for hydrogen)
Boltzmann-Saha equation example
Chapter 11
Convection criterion for thunderstorms
Convection in the Sun
Coronal spectra
Space Weather Prediction Center
My aurora page
Aurora movie
Another aurora movie
Another aurora movie
Chapter 12
Extinction map of the sky
Nebulae
More planetary nebulae
The Coalsack
Bok Globules
Technical paper on OB associations
T Tauri
A Herbig-Haro object
A pair of Herbig-Haro objects
Chapter 13
Schaller et al. stellar evolution paper
WEBDA open cluster database
M55 color-magnitude diagram
NGC 5986 color-magnitude diagram
Leo IV dwarf spheroidal galaxy color-magnitude diagram
Stellar pulsation animations
Cepheid period-luminosity relation for LMC
Cepheid period-luminosity relation for the Milky Way
Cepheid period-luminosity relation for another galaxy
Variable stars discovered while looking for exoplanets
Chapter 16
Pauli exclusion principle
Bosons vs. Fermions
Gamma-ray burst "discovery" paper
BATSE satellite
Iron peak
Expanding Crab Nebula
Expanding Crab Nebula
Black hole FAQs
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
Artist's conception of a black hole tearing apart a star
Chapter 25
Galaxy images
Cartwheel Galaxy
21 cm line example
The local universe
Compact galaxy groups
A starburst galaxy
Galactic cannibalism
We're next?
Star formation histories
Link for information on the globular cluster M22 for the homework problem
Chapter 28
Schematic diagram of an AGN
Stars near the Galactic center
X-ray view of the Galactic center
A swarm of black holes?
Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars