AS7007 Galaxies, 7.5 hp, Spring 2012
Literature:	L.S. Sparke & J. S. Gallagher III, 2007, “Galaxies in the Universe”,  Cambridge University Press, ISBN 139780521671866 (paperback) or 139780521855938 (hardback)
Contents:	Extragalactic astronomy, with emphasis on the origin and evolution of galaxies.
Prerequisites:	Knowledge corresponding to a Bachelor's degree in physics, or similar. In addition, basic knowledge about spectra, stellar physics, galaxies and cosmology corresponding to the courses Introduction to galaxies and cosmology (AS3001), Astrophysical spectra (AS7006), Stellar structure and evolution (AS7010) and Cosmology (AS7009) is required.
Examination:	Seminars, literature report and hand-in exercises.
Teacher:	Erik Zackrisson, ez(at)astro.su.se, phone: 08-5537 8556
Time:	March-June 2012
If you are interested in participating, please notify Erik Zackrisson as soon as possible!

Schedule
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Date	Time	Room	Lecture/ Exercise session/ Seminar	Topics	To read	To turn in/prepare
March 26	10-12	FC61	Lecture 1	Course outline, historical background, the extragalactic distance scale, galaxy classification	1.1-1.3, 1.4-1.5, 2.1.1, 2.2.3, 4.1.2
March 27	10-12	FC61	Lecture 2	The Milky Way and the Local Group	2.1, 2.2-2.4.2, 4.1-4.1.1, 4.2-4.3.1, 4.5
March 29	10-12	FC61	Lecture 3	Dark matter in galaxies	Not covered well in the textbook
April 10	13-15	FC61	Lecture 4	Disk galaxies and elliptical galaxies,	1.3.1., 5.1-5.6.2, 6.1-6.4.2
April 16	10-12	FC61	Exercise session I	Exercises 1-6
April 19	10-12	FC61	Lecture 5	Dwarf galaxies and starbursts, the stellar intial mass function, the galaxy luminosity function, surface brightness, star formation, the interstellar medium, chemical evolution, interactions & mergers, integrated vs. resolved photometry	1.3.1, 2.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.3.2, 4.4, 7.1.2
April 20	13:30-15	FC61	Seminar I			See instructions for seminar I
April 24	10-12	FC61	Lecture 6 Exercise session II	Active galaxies, Lyman-alpha absorption Exercises 7-12	9-9.3	Hand-in exercises 1-3
April 26	10-12	FC61	Lecture 7	Galaxy groups, galaxy clusters, graviational lensing	7.1-7.4.3, 8.1
May 14	13-16	Aina Elvius	Lecture 8	The high-redshift Universe: Reionization, the first stars and galaxies	8.3, 9.4-9.4.4	Hand-in exercises 4-6
May 16	10-12	FC61	Exercise session III	Exercises 13-18
May 18						Written report
May 29	10-12	FC61	Seminar II			See instructions for seminar II
May 31	10-15	FC61	Oral presentations
June 7						Hand-in exercises 7-9

Examination

· Two seminars

· Three sets of hand in-exercises

· Written essay (minimum 3 pages) + oral presentation (10 minutes)

Course material

· Seminar instructions: I, II

· Dataset for seminar II

· Exercises (including hand-ins)

· Solutions to exercise sets I, II, III

· Lecture notes: L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8

Errata

· None so far