Physics Department
ASTR 1P02
Outline
Unit 8: Stellar Evolution
Unit 9: Stellar Remnants
Unit 10: The Milky Way Galaxy
Unit 11: Galaxies
Unit 12: Cosmology
Unit 13: The Solar System
Unit 14: Small Bodies Orbiting the Sun
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The Milky Way Galaxy
Dr. Mitrović's Lecture Clips (audio + video, mp4)
Introduction
(7:22)
Globular Clusters and Distance Determinations Within the Milky Way
(18:20)
Structure and Content of the Milky Way
(15:08)
Stellar Motions within the Milky Way
(23:48)
Dark Matter
(17:59)
The Milky Way's Spiral Arms
(6:29)
The Milky Way's Centre
(8:12)
Dr. Mitrović's Lecture Notes (pdf)
The Milky Way
Globular Clusters and Distances in the Milky Way
The Content of the Milky Way
Motions of Stars in the Milky Way
Dark Matter
Spiral Arms and the Galactic Centre
Additional Sources of Information
Overview:
Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
(click "Next" to see subsequent pages of the overview);
J. Schombert (University of Oregon), Part 1
and
Part 2
;
R. O'Connell (University of Virginia)
Stars of the Milky Way
Stellar populations:
N. Strobel (Bakersfield College)
;
University of Maryland
Star clusters:
open star clusters
and
globular star clusters
, H. Frommert and C. Kronberg (SEDS)
Shape of the Milky Way:
P. Ghosh, BBC News
Measuring the Milky Way: N. Strobel (Bakersfield College),
Part 1
and
Part 2
;
NASA
Distance determinations within the Milky Way:
A.M. Larson (University of Washington)
;
M. Rieke (University of Arizona)
;
Carnegie Institution of Science
Gas and dust in the Milky Way:
Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
;
University of New Hampshire
;
NASA
Motion of stars and gas in the Milky Way:
N. Strobel (Bakersfield College)
;
Swinburne University
Dark matter:
NASA
;
M. White (UC Berkeley)
;
Yost and Daunt (University of Tennessee)
;
Sudbury SNOLab dark matter detection experiment
;
Why almost all of the universe is invisible (BBC)
The galactic centre:
A.M. Tanner (Mississippi State University)
;
M. Rieke and G. Rieke (University of Arizona)
Spiral arms:
S. Naoz (Harvard University)
;
J. Imamura (University of Oregon)
Evolution of the Milky Way:
C. Chiappini (New Scientist, pdf)
Summary:
E.G. Blackman (University of Rochester, ppt)
;
J. Imamura (University of Oregon)
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