ASTRO 358/SPRING 2019
        	     GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE
                	  COURSE OUTLINE 

I will try to adhere to the course outline below as closely as possible, 
but there may be small schedule adjustments based on the learning
curve of, and feedback from, the class. The  outline will be updated regularly
and the most  current version can be found at 
   http://www.as.utexas.edu/~sj/a358-sp19/a358-sp19.calendar.txt
In-class activities and quizzes can take place  at any time in the  semester
and are not all  listed on the course outline.  A list of reference textbooks
for reading is given at  the end of the ouline.



   
January 22
-- Course Overview

January 24
-- Partial Review of Pre-requisite Material

January 29
-- Quiz on Pre-Requisite Materials

January 31, Feb 5, 7, 12
-- Review of Quiz Answers on Pre-requisite Material
-- The Diversity of Galaxy Types and Their Formation Pathways

Feb. 12, 14
-- Galaxy Luminosity Functions

February 19, 21, 26, Mar 5, 7
-- Dark Matter
- Overview: Unveiling the Dark Side  (Dark Matter and Dark Energy)
- Motion of Particles Under Newtonian Laws of Gravity
- Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxies and Local Group from Newtonian Dynamics
- Evidence for Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters  (using the Virial
- Dark Matter Alternatives: Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
- Evidence for Dark Matter from Gravitational Lensing (by MACHOS,  galaxies, 
     and cluster of galaxies)
- Candidates for Dark Matter : Baryonic (MACHOS), non-Baryonic CDM (e.g., 
     WIMPS) non-baryonic HDM  (e.g., neutrinos) 
- Candidates for Dark Matter & Implication for Structure Formation
 

March 12 
-- Review for Mid-Term Exam

March 14
-- Mid Term Exam 

Spring Break  = March 18-23  (Mon. to Sat)

March 26
-- Galaxy Interactions and Mergers

March 28 
-- Galaxy Interactions and Mergers (conid)

-- Introduction to team project : For this project, each team of
4-5 students will will give oral presentations on  a specific
facility.

--  Background lecture for the class project  on "Unveiling Galaxy 
Evolution with Current and Next-Generation Observational Facilities".

April 2, 4
-- Student teams use part of the class time to  select a team
representative, and to organize  the work among team members for
their oral presentation.

--  Background lecture for the class project  on "Unveiling Galaxy 
Evolution with Current and Next-Generation Observational Facilities"
(contd) 



April  9, 11, 16
- Star Formation: Tracers and Theoretical Framework

April  18, 23
- Black Holes and AGN

April  25, 30
- Talks by student teams for the class project "Unveiling Galaxy  Evolution with Current and Next-Generation Observational Facilities"

May 2, 7  (The topics marked with a * will NOT be on the second midterm exam)
- Black Holes and AGN (continued)
- Galaxy Transformation in Different Environments  (*)
- Outstanding challenges for hierarchical models of galaxy evolution  (*)
- Discussion of homework solution sets + Exam 2  
- Course Synopsis

May 9
- Second Mid Term Exam 

May 10
Last class day except in the School of Law.

REFERENCE TEXTBOOKS  AND  READING  MATERIAL

The lectures will include material drawn from a wide range of
textbooks, as well as from published cutting-edge research
results that have not yet made it to standard textbooks. When
 using textbooks for complementary reading, you can use the book's
 appendix to locate specific sub-topics covered in a given
 lecture. These sub-topics are often spread across several chapters
 in the books, so there is no one-to-one corresponance between the
 class lectures and the book chapters. The main book I recommend for
 complementary reading is
-  EAC = "Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology" by Peter Schneider 
        (Publisher: Spinger, copyright 2006)

Additional useful references are:
- GA  = "Galactic Astronomy, by Binney and Merrifield
        (Publisher: Princeton University Press, copyright 1998)
- GU = "Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction", by Sparke & Gallagher
        (Publisher: Cambridge University Press, copyright 2000)