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"AST 381 Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae"
Prof. Gregory A. Shields
Fall 2008
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Welcome to AST 381 "Astropysics of Gaseous Nebulae and
Active Galactic Nuclei", affectionately known as "Gasbags".
This course gives an introduction to the physical processes
in ionized nebulae and the observational techniques for
studying them. The homework will be a large part of the course,
and will involve practice in physical processes, study of
spectra, and modeling of nebulae with the CLOUDY photoionization
code. The textbook is
"Astropysics of Gaseous Nebulae and
Active Galactic Nuclei" by Donald E. Osterbrock and
Gary J. Ferland (2nd edition, University Science Books).
To get a head start, you might like to familiarize
yourself with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org),
in particular the Spectro Query Server for the latest data release.
You may also find it useful to install CLOUDY on your
computer (http://www.nublado.org). I am happy to help,
even before the start of the course. The course description
and some homework from the 2006 course are linked below.
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