ASTRO 620: GALACTIC STRUCTURE

SECTION 1, SCHEDULE #03124

SPRING 2008

T TH 14:00--15:15, PA 216

Professor: Jerome A. Orosz

Textbook: Galactic Dynamics, by James Binney and Scott Tremaine (Princeton University Press, 1987).

Click here for the syllabus.

Lecture notes from January 22, 2008 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from January 22, 2008 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from January 24, 2008 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Lecture notes from January 24, 2008 in HTML. Click here for a PostScript file.

Links taken from Prof. Welsh's ASTRO 680 page:

Linux and Fortran Programming:
Intro to Unix
FORTRAN Help
Starlink Guides

Graphics and Imaging (aka "data Visualization"):
PGPLOT a library of plotting subroutines.
Grace (aka "Xmgr" or "ace/gr") a standalone gui-driven plotting package.
gnuplot cenral and gnuplot FAQ (note: gnuplot is NOT affiliated with GNU nor the FSF projects)
gnuplot - brief maunal & tutorial site from Duke Univ.'s Civil & Envir. Engineering
MONGO User's Guidefrom John Tonry
Note: "SM" was formerly called "supermongo", but it is not an offshoot of "mongo", so the name has been changed.
Intro to SM (or supermongo) page from the ``Intro to Computing in Physics'' class web page at the Univ. of Utah.
SM manual the official SM manual from the authors of SM; see also the SM tutorial. And finally, more on SM.

Astronomical Literature
ADS
Los Alamos/Cornell ArXiv Preprint Server
ApJ

Astronomical Databases & Tools
Skyview
SIMBAD
NED
Spectrophotometric Standard Stars (provided by ESO)
Landolt Equatorial Standards on line BVRI photometry of standard stars near the celestial equator by A. U. Landolt (1992 AJ 104, 340)
IR standards from ESO
A simple JD/civil date conversion utility from HEASARC.
A simple Energy/wavelength/frequency Converter from HEASARC
A total galactic HI column density nH calculator from HEASARC.
IRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility:
IRAF homepage at NOAO.


Physical Constants, Time:
The CODATA Internationally recommended values of the Fundamental physical constants from the NIST site.
A simple JD-to-calendar date converter from the USNO
The current time from the US Naval Observatory & the NIST (java).

To see the current MJD, press this button: .

More Tools and Resources:
The famous National Bureau of Standards Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and Stegun
The ghostscript/ghostview home page.
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics On-line from Cambridge University Press
FITS info
HTML guide and a html template sample file (load the page then save the file). See also the Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Techniques of Observational Astronomy web pages from John Oliver's undergrad course at the Univ of Florida. Look at the "Effect of the Earth's Atmosphere" section in particular.
Observational Techniques Class Notes from Jon Holtzman @ New Mexico State Univ.
Calculation of Astronomical Refraction a wealth of information from Andy Young's site.