Syllabus



Astrophysics Data System literature search tool
New Extragalactic database (NED) search tool
SIMBAD search tool (for stars)

Homeworks

• HW01
• HW02   A G2V spectrum   Westerlund2 Moffatt data table     A Picture of Westerlund2   A Picture of the Orion Nebula Cluster   A neat movie of stars orbitting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way"   A paper on supermassive black holes at centers of galaxies measured with maser velocities
• HW03
  • binary.dat data file
  • tar file of binary star spectra or a zip file of binary star spectra
  • A useful paper for typing stars (Silva & Cornell (1992)
  • A Julian Date converter
  • A python julian date converter
  • Chip's program to read in a spectrum from a fits file, plot it, and fit a Gaussian function
• HW04
  • tar file of galaxy spectra or a zip file of galaxy spectra
  • Coma cluster picture (pdf)
• HW05
• HW06
  • Data file for HW06

C+O Appendix G
• Appendix G on stellar data from C+O

Python STUFF
• our Python tutorial directory
• Chip's zoom tutorial using Jupyter Notebooks in python
• Python.org site
• mtplotlib pyplot example
• Yufeng's python for astronomers intro

Gravity Applets
• galactic center movie
• A binary star applet for visualizing orbits
• An eclipsing binary star applet
• 3 body movie
• Another Kepler's law applet applet
Movies involving gravity
• Kepler Supernova Movie
• Globular Cluster Virilization
• Small N-body movie of binary stars
• Star ripped apart by tidal forces
• Star Cluster Evolution movie
• Galaxy Cluster formation movie
• galaxy cluster simulation
• spiral galaxy formation simulation
• spiral galaxy merger simulation
E&M Waves from An Accelerating Charge
• EM Waves
• PHET simulation of radiating charges

another simulation of radiating charges