Astronomy 505: Galaxies

Course outline and useful information.

Lecturers and titles: click on link to access pdf versions of lecture slides (where available).

Please note that this course is now offered on UVic Brightspace. These course materials may be out of date and are offered here for interest only.

Lecture 1: Introduction	Lecture 1: slides
Lecture 2: A Universe of Galaxies	Lecture 2: slides
Lecture 3: The Local Group	Lecture 3: slides
Lecture 4: Elliptical Galaxies	Lecture 4: slides
Lecture 5: Spiral Galaxies	Lecture 5: slides

Assignments:

Four assignments will be issued through the semester.

Suggested readings: pdf copies of papers recommended throughout the course.

Edwin Hubble: A biographical retrospective by Gale Christianson

The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey Large Program: The Infrared Excess of z=1.5-10 UV-selected Galaxies and the Implied High-Redshift Star Formation History

Quantifying the impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the structure of the Milky Way's dark matter halo using Basis Function Expansions

The role of the elaphrocentre in low surface brightness galaxy formation

Broad-band selection, spectroscopic identification, and physical properties of a population of extreme emission line galaxies at 3<z<3.7