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33-777: Introductory Astrophysics

Welcome to the Spring 2020 semester graduate level introduction to astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon University. This repository will serve as the course website.

Please see the syllabus for further course details.

Lecture Schedule

Lecture Date Unit Topics
1 1/14/2020 Introduction Celestial Coordinates, Time
2 1/16/2020 Introduction Luminosity, Flux, SEDs
3 1/21/2020 Telescopes Optics, Telescope Design
4 1/23/2020 Exoplanets Kepler's Laws, Detection Methods
- 1/28/2020 Telescopes Student Presentations
5 1/30/2020 Stars The Sun, H-R Diagram, Stellar Spectral Types, Radiative Transfer
6 2/4/2020 Stars Radiative Transfer, Thermal Equilibrium, Stellar Atmospheres
7 2/6/2020 Stars Scattering Processes, Line Formation
8 2/11/2020 Stars Stellar Interriors, Hydrostatic Equilibrium, Virial Theorem
9 2/13/2020 Stars Stellar Interriors, Equations of Stellar Structure, Scaling Relations
10 2/18/2020 Stars Energy Generation in Stars, Nuclear Reaction Rates
11 2/20/2020 Stars Stellar Nucleosynthesis, Main Sequence Stellar Evolution
- 2/25/2020 - No Class
12 2/27/2020 Stars Post-Main Sequence Stellar Evolution
13 3/3/2020 Stars Degenerate Matter in Stars
14 3/5/2020 Stars Massive Stellar Evolution, Supernovae, Neutron Stars
- 3/17/2020 - Lecture Cancelled
15 3/19/2020 Galaxies The Milky Way, The ISM
16 3/24/2020 Galaxies The Distance Ladder, Hubble's Law, The Galaxy Population
17 3/26/2020 Galaxies Galaxy Dynamics, Galaxy Clusters, Dark Matter, Population Statistics
18 3/31/2020 Cosmology Riemannian Geometry, FRW Metric, Distances
- 4/2/2020 - No Class
19 4/7/2020 Cosmology General Relativity, The Friedmann Equations
20 4/9/2020 Cosmology FRW cosmologies, The Age of the Universe
21 4/14/2020 Cosmology The CMB, BBN, The Early Universe
- 4/16/2020 Cosmology Cosmology Summary and Discussion
- 4/21/2020 - Open Office Hours
- 4/23/2020 - Open Office Hours
24 4/28/2020 Galaxy Evolution Simulations of Galaxy Formation