ASTROPHYSICS II, 5 hp, Spring Term 2008. Time plan and preliminary course contents

Date Time TMT:Pages Review papers to read Themes
Mon 21/1 15:15-17:00 Registration
Tues 29/1 15:15-17:00 TMT 1-10* Livio (2006)*, Musser (2007)* Introduction and Overview
Tues 5/2 15:15-17:00 TMT 11-19* Krauss & Turner (2004)*, Concelice (2007), Barrow & Webb (2005)*, Atwood et al. (2007) Fundamental Physics and Cosmology
Tues 12/2 15:15-17:00 TMT 20-29* Burgess & Quevedo (2007)*, Frank (2006)*, Frank (2007), Veneziano (2004) The Early Universe
Tues 19/2 15:15-17:00 TMT 30-45* Lineweaver & Davis (2005)*, Loeb (2006), Larson & Bromm (2001), Nadis (2007a)*, Dorminey (2007) Galaxy Formation and the Interagalactic Medium
Tues 26/2 15:15-17:00 TMT 46-50* Tucker et al. (2007)*, Lemonick (2007)*, Nadis (2007b), Jacobson & Parentani (2005) Black Holes
Tues 4/3 15:15-17:00 TMT 51-62* Combes (2005)*, Ibata & Gibson (2007)*, Barger (2005) Exploration of Nearby Galaxies
Tues 11/3 15:15-17:00 TMT 63-74* Zimmerman (2007), Balick & Frank (2004), Hillebrandt et al. (2005)*, Nelemans (2006)*, Reddy (2007) Life of Stars
Tues 18/3 15:15-17:00 TMT 75-8 Gaidos et al. (2007), Marcy (2007?)*, Boss (2006)*, Osorio (2006), Ardila (2004), Warmflash & Weiss (2005) Exo-planets and Our Solar System

Reading

"*" denotes mandatory reading. Students are, however, encouraged to exchange mandatory papers to others listed after agreement by BG

Papers are available as paper copies for copying in a blue folder in BG's mailbox in the Astronomy corridor
or in journals in the Astronomy Library in the Astronomy corridor.

Papers from Scientific American may also be downloaded via www.ub.uu.se/journal/print/index.cfm.

Ardila (2004): "The hidden members of planetary systems", Scientific American, April 2004, 34
Atwood, Michelson & Ritz: "Window on the Extreme Universe", Scientific American, December 2007, 54
Balick & Frank (2004): "The extraordinary Death of ordinary Stars", Scientific American, July 2004, 27
Barger (2005):" The midlife Crisis of the Cosmos", Scientific American, Jan 2005, 33
Barrow & Webb (2005)*: "Inconstant constants", Scientific American, June 2005, 33
Boss (2006)*:"How do you make a giant exoplanet?", Astronomy, October 2006, 38
Burgess & Quevedo (2007)*: "The great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, 53
Combes (2005)*: "Ripples in the Galactic Pond", Scientific American Oct 2005, 25
Conselice (2007): "The Universe's Invisible Hand", Scientific American, Feb 2007, 35
Dorminey (2007): "What lurks between galaxies", Astronomy Sept 2007, 28
Frank (2006)*: "A Wrinkle in Space Time", Astronomy, Sept 2006, 36
Frank (2007): "How the Big Bang Forged the first Elements", Astronomy, October 2007, 32
Ibata & Gibson (2007)*: "The Ghosts of Galaxies Past", Scientific American 2007, 40
Hillebrandt, Janka & Mueller (2006)*: "How to blow up a Star", Scientific American, October 2006, 42
Jacobson & Parentani (2005): "An Echo of Black Holes", Scientific American 2005, December 2005, 48
Krauss & Turner (2004)*: "A Cosmic Conundrum", Scientific American, Sept 2004, 53
Larson & Bromm (2001): "The first Stars in the Universe", Scientific American, December 2001, 52
Lemonick (2007)*: "The truth about black holes", New Scientist 2007, Oct 6, 36
Lineweaver & Davis (2005)*: "Misconceptions about the Big Bang", Scientific American, March 2005, 24
Livio (2006)*: "Hubble's Top 10", Scientific American, July 2006, 43
Loeb (2006): "The Dark ages", Scientific American, November 2006, 46
Marcy (2007?)*: "The new search for distant planets", Astronomy ?? (copy by BG)
Musser (2007)*: "5 essential things to do in space", Scientific American, Oct 2007, 69
Nadis (2007a)*: "How to make 20 million Galaxies", Astronomy, May 2007, 34
Nadis (2007b): "Black holes, seeing the unseeable", Astronomy, April 2007, 26
Nelemans (2006)*: Ultracompact binary stars", Physics Today, July 2006, 26
Osorio (2006): "Planets without Suns", Astronomy, Oct. 2006, 44
Reddy (2007): "The supernova next door", Astronomy, June 2007, 32
Tucker, Tananbaum & Fabian (2007)*: "Black hole blowback", Scientific American, March 2007, 42
Veneziano (2004): "The myth of the beginning of time", Scientific American, May 2004, 30
Warmflash & Weiss (2005): "Did life come from another world", Scientific American, Nov 2005, 40
Zimmerman (2007): "What makes Mira tick?", Astronomy, February 2007, 42
TMT: Thirty Meter Telescope. Detailed Science Case: 2007*, see www.tmt.org/science/index.html

Department responsible for the Course:
Department for Physics and Astronomy, Division for Astronomy and Space Physics, Box 515, 751 20 Uppsala.
Visiting address: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala.

Teacher: Professor Bengt Gustafsson. Room: Tammsalen, end of Astronomy Corridor in Ångströmlaboratoriet, House 6, 3:rd floor

Studierektor: Rolf Paulsson Tel. 471 3249 (Rolf.Paulsson@teorfys.uu.se). Rum 73412.
Studievägledare: Elisabet Leitet, Tel. 471 59 55 mån, ons, fre kl. 13.30-14.30 (studievagledningen@astro.uu.se). Rum 73404.
Homepages for Division of Astronomy: www.astro.uu.se

*Participation required at at least 7 lectures, if not otherwise agreed with BG*.
No formal exam but a 5 pages essay on a topic in relation to the course is required before the ending lecture.

More course information is available here
"Info on Astrophysics II course"