AY230 Low Density Astrophysics

Instructor: Jason X. Prochaska
Fall Quarter, 2008

• Email: xavier at ucolick.org
• Office: ISB 359
• Phone: 459-2135

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Texts:

(None required, *=Recommended)

• *Osterbrock & Ferland, "AGN2"
• *Tielens, "Physics and Chemistary of the ISM"
• Spitzer, "Physical Processes in the ISM"
• Shu, "Radiation"
• Rybicky & Lightman, "Radiative Processes"
• AY204b Notes

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Syllabus:

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Lecture Notes:

• Intro
• Radiative Processes (A.-H.)
• HII Regions: Ionization Structure
• HII Regions: Temperature
• HII Regions: Diagnostics
• HI: 21cm
• HI: Lya
• Dust
• Molecules
• Two Phase ISM
• Hot Diffuse Gas

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Recommended Readings:

• Intro material
  • Fukugita, Peebles, & Hogan, 1998, ApJ, 503, 518
  • Prochaska & Tumlinson, 2008, in press, (astro-ph)
  • Tielens, Chapter 1
  • Spitzer, Chapter 1
  • References within the lecture notes
• HII Regions (Ionization structure)
  • AGN2: Chapter 2
  • Tielens: Chapter 7
  • Cloudy's "Hazy"
  • Garnett 1999, ASPC, 192, 61
• HII Regions (Temperature structure)
  • AGN2: Chapter 3
  • Tielens: Chapter 2.4, 3.2
  • Cloudy's "Hazy"
  • Peimbert & Peimbert 2002, RMxAC, 14, 47 [in-class]
  • Peimbert et al. 2002, ApJ 565, 668
• HII Regions (Diagnostics)
  • AGN2: Chapter 4,5
  • Tielens: Chapter 7.5
  • Skillman (1998)
  • Kewley & Ellison 2008, ApJ 681, 1183 [in-class]
  • Pettini & Pagel 2004, MNRAS, 384, 59L
  • Liu et al. 2008, ApJ, 678, 758
• HI 21cm
  • Madau, Meiksin, & Rees 1997 (21cm reionization)
  • Furlanetto et al. 2006, PhR, 433, 181 (21cm Reionization)
  • Briggs 1990, AJ, 100, 999 (HIMF)
  • Zwaan et al. 2005, MNRAS, 359, L30 (HIPASS HIMF)
  • Giovanelli et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 2598 (ALFALFA Survey)
  • Walter et al. 2008, astro-ph/0810.2125 (THINGS Survey)
  • Zwaan et al. 2008, astro-ph/0810.2304 [in-class]
• HI Lya
  • Spitzer: Chapter 3
  • Tielens: Sections 2.1.4, 8.9.4
  • Savage & Sembach 1991, ApJ, 379, 245
  • Savage & Sembach 1996, ARA&A, 34, 279
  • Gould & Weinberg 1996, ApJ, 468, 462 [in-class]
  • Jenkins 1986, ApJ, 304, 739
  • Prochaska 2006, ApJ, 650, 272
• Dust
  • Spitzer: Chapter 3
  • Tielens: Chapters 5,6
  • Savage & Sembach 1996, ARA&A, 34, 279
  • Fitzpatrick & Massa 1990, ApJS, 72, 163
  • Liang & Li 2008, astro-ph/0811.1867 [in-class]
• Molecules
  • Shu, "Radiation": Chapters 28-30
  • Tielens: Chapters 2,10
  • Shull \& Beckwith, 1982, ARAA
  • Morton \& Noreau 1994, ApJS, 95, 301
  • Tumlinson et al. 2002, ApJ, 566, 857
  • Walter et al.\ 2003, Nature, 424, 406 [in-class]
• Two Phase Medium
  • Tielens:
  • Spitzer: 6.2
  • Wolfire et al. 2003, ApJ, 587, 278
  • Field, Goldsmith & Habing 1969, ApJ, 155, L149
  • McKee & Ostriker 1977, ApJ, 218, 148
  • Wolfe et al. 2003, ApJ, 593, 215
• Hot, diffuse gas
  • Tielens:
  • Spitzer: 6.2
  • Wolfire et al. 2003, ApJ, 587, 278
  • Field, Goldsmith & Habing 1969, ApJ, 155, L149
  • McKee & Ostriker 1977, ApJ, 218, 148
  • Wolfe et al. 2003, ApJ, 593, 215

Problem Sets:

• Assignment 1 (Due October 14, 2008)
• Assignment 2 (Due October 23, 2008)
• Assignment 3 Spectrum (Due November 4, 2008)
• Assignment 4 Normalized Quasar Spectrum (Due November 20, 2008)
• Assignment 5 (Due December 4, 2008)

Solutions:

• Solution 1
• Solution 2
• Solution 3
• Solution 4
• Solution 5

Presentations:

• Planetary Nebula (Arnold paper)
• Reionization (Cheung paper)
• Reionization (Cheung presentation)
• Proximity Effect (Fumagalli paper)
• Proximity Effect (Fumagalli presentation)
• Dust Destruction (Guillochon report)
• Dust Destruction (Guillochon presentation)
• Quasar pair? (Medling present)
• Shocks (Ruhlen report)
• Shocks (Ruhlen presentation)