| Today: Reminders/Assignments | |
| MAP! | |
| Next Wed: Longair, Ch. 3-Galaxies | |
| Unless noted, all figs and eqs from Longair. | |
| Astro-ph preprints: | ||
| http://xxx.lanl.gov/astro-ph | ||
| SDSS, 2dF Surveys (Darnel) | ||
| Spacegrant applications due Tuesday: | ||
| http://wyomingspacegrant.uwyo.edu/ | ||
| Anyone applying can get a HW extension | ||
| The textbook is rather weak when it comes to observational properties like spectra – as budding young observers you need to know more! | |
| Find and download the galaxy spectra templates of Kinney et al. (1996) – and read the paper! | |
| Find and download the spectral synthesis population models of Bruzual and Charlot. | |
| “Fit” the elliptical template and one spiral galaxy. | |
| Show some plots indicating how broad-band colors change with redshift assuming not evolution (up to z=2). | |
| Write up your results like you would for publication with clarity, citations, etc. |
| NASA press conference: | |
| Ho=71 T=13.7 Gyr Omega=1.00 Omega_baryon=0.04 Omega_dm=0.23 Omega_lambda=0.73 First stars at z~16 |
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| http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html |
| We’re going to devote this class to MAP. We’ll go through (begin. and int.) Wayne Hu webpages Mike Pierce suggested: | |
| http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/physics/physics.html | |
| Advanced Mathematical description is in Chapter 15 of Longair – we’re not quite ready for that yet. | |
| HW: Technical paper Bennett et al. 2003 |