PS 222 course web page (Fall 2018; Prof. Rachford)

Main information

• Syllabus - see Canvas

Exam review topics

Exam 1

Topic notes

• Topic 1 | Topic 1 supplemental notes
• Topic 2
• Topic 3 | Topic 3 supplemental notes
• Topic 4
• Topic 5
• Topic 6
• Topic 7
• Topic 8
• Topic 9 | Topic 9 supplemental notes
• Topic 10 | Topic 10 supplemental notes
• Topic 11 | Topic 11 supplemental notes
• Topic 12 | Topic 12 supplemental notes
• Topic 13 | Topic 13 supplemental notes
• Topic 14 | Topic 14 supplemental notes
• Topic 15

Class links

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Spaceweather.com
• Astrophysics Data System

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
• Stellar parameters for various spectral types

Chapter 9

• A bunch of eclipsing binary light curves
• Some other eclipsing binary light curves
• The interesting case of VW Cephei
• Eclipsing binary simulator
• One example of binary star evolution
• Sample binary star radial velocity curves
• Visual binary orbit

Chapter 10

• Solar interior model
• Nuclear binding energy
• Solar neutrino Nobel Prize
• Neutrino detectors
• Quantum tunneling animation
• Proton-proton chain
• Proton-proton chain animation
• CNO cycle

Chapter 11

• Schaller et al. stellar evolution paper
• Jeans instability
• Herbig-Haro objects
• T Tauri stars
• Planetary nebula page
• More planetary nebulae
• Supernova Cosmology Project
• Supernova light curves
• Core collapse supernova simulation

Chapter 12

• Convection criterion for thunderstorms
• Convection in the Sun
• Solar granulation movie
• Coronal spectra
• Space Weather Prediction Center
• Ionosphere (Stanford)
• Ionosphere (Wikipedia
• Current solar activity from a radio communications perspective
• My aurora page
• Aurora movie from Scotland
• Aurora movie from Iceland
• Aurora from a plane
• SOHO CME movies
• Baliunus et al. paper on stellar activity
• Fast CME speeds in 2003

Chapter 13

• Variable stars
• Stellar pulsation animations
• Multi-period Delta Scuti variable
• Cepheid period-luminosity relation for the Milky Way
• Cepheid period-luminosity relation for LMC
• Cepheid period-luminosity relation for another galaxy
• Variable stars discovered while looking for exoplanets
• Superflares on solar-type stars
• Superflares observed with Kepler
• Recent superflare observations
• Nova

Chapter 14

• Pauli exclusion principle
• Bosons vs. Fermions
• Iron peak
• Crab Nebula
• Core of Crab Nebula
• Expanding Crab Nebula
• Expanding Crab Nebula
• Lucky imaging
• The physics of neutron stars
• Neutron star merger
• Black hole FAQs
• Black hole movie
• Hawking radiation
• Gamma-ray burst "discovery" paper
• Gamma Ray burst distribution
• Bright gamma ray burst paper
• Ruh-ro
• 3D galaxy map

Chapter 15

• Extinction map of the sky
• The Coalsack
• Bok Globules
• Cosmic nucleosynthesis

Chapter 16

• Life of a star
• Scorpius-Centarus Association
• Evolution of the Big Dipper
• Schaller et al. stellar evolution paper
• WEBDA open cluster database
• The Sun's big brother
• M55 color-magnitude diagram
• NGC 5986 color-magnitude diagram
• Leo IV dwarf spheroidal galaxy color-magnitude diagram

Chapter 17

• Milky Way (visible light)
• Milky Way (visible light)
• Milky Way (infrared light)
• Milky Way (X-rays)
• Milky Way (gamma rays)
• Artist's conception of Milky Way from outside
• The local universe
• Galaxy images
• 21 cm line example
• One of Shapley's papers on the distribution of Milky Way globular clusters
• Milky Way rotation curve
• 360-degree view of Milky Way
• Galactic center (visible)
• Galactic center (radio waves)
• Arches cluster near Galactic center
• Galactic center close-up (infrared)
• Galactic center close-up (radio and far-infrared)
• "The Swarm"
• Galactic center close-up (X-rays)
• Evidence for Milky Way black hole
• Same evidence for Milky Way black hole
• Flares from central black hole

Chapter 18

• Galaxy images
• Cartwheel Galaxy
• One new M31 satellite
• Another new M31 satellite
• Rotation curves of other galaxies
• Compact galaxy groups
• A starburst galaxy
• Galactic cannibalism
• New information on Sagittarius dwarf
• We're next?
• Star formation histories
• Globular clusters in M31
• Star formation in M32 (Andromeda satellite galaxy)
• Central black hole in M81
• Seyfert galaxy NGC 5985
• Seyfert galaxy NGC 7742
• Seyfert galaxy NGC 4945
• Seyfert galaxy M106
• Science page on AGNs, including Seyfert galaxies
• Synchrotron radiation
• M87 jet
• Multi-wavelength observations of M87 jet
• Superluminal motion graph
• Superluminal motion in M87 jet
• NGC 1097 jet
• Schematic diagram of an AGN
• Quasar 3C 273
• Binary AGNs
• Neighbors of AGNs
• Paper on brightness changes due to relativistic beaming

Chapter 19

• History of the Universe graphic
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Wikipedia: Cosmic Background Radiation
• CMB paper 1
• CMB paper 2
• Picture of Penzias and Wilson
• NPR story on Penzias and Wilson
• Cosmic Background Explorer
• Some COBE results
• More COBE results
• Wilkerson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
• Planck mission
• Stress-energy tensor
• Einstein field equations
• Seven-year WMAP results
• Supernova Cosmology Project
• The High-Z Supernova Search
• Supernova/Acceleration Probe
• False vacuum paper
• Big bang
• Timeline of the far future