Here is a directory listing with a brief description of each item: 00. README (this file) 01. Overview.pdf (overview of the tutorial) 02. PressReleases.html (press release on the discovery of an age-velocity dispersion relation in the Andromeda galaxy) 03. SciencePpr-Dorman_etal_2015_ApJ_803_24.pdf (journal article on the discovery of an age-velocity dispersion relation in the Andromeda galaxy) 04. Getting Started with Jupyter & Tutorial Instructions.pdf (instructions for Anaconda Python 3.6 installation) 05. AstronomyLite.zip (archive of blank and partially completed Jupyter notebooks, but with minimal Astronomy content) 06. JupyterNotebooksBlank.zip (archive of blank Jupyter notebooks) 07. JupyterNotebooksCompleted.zip (archive of partially completed Jupyter notebooks) 08. ZoomConf1_ipynb123.mp4 (video recording of workshop session #1 covering notebooks 1, 2, and 3) 09. ZoomConf2_ipynb45.mp4 (video recording of workshop session #2 covering notebooks 4 and 5) 10. ZoomConf3_ipynb6.mp4 (video recording of workshop session #3 covering notebooks 6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lecture topics to set the broader context of the research and explain some of the technical details: - Introduction: The Andromeda galaxy; Hubble Space Telescope imaging; Keck DEIMOS spectroscopy - Magnitude system: an inverse logarithmic system for measuring stellar brightness - Black body spectrum; color as the difference between magnitudes in two different filters - Basics of stellar evolution; stellar lifetimes as a function of stellar mass and evolutionary phase - Spectral absorption (and emission) lines; Doppler shift - Rotation of a disk galaxy - Velocity dispersion (spread) - Conclusion: galaxy mergers (cannibalism); bombardment of Andromeda's disk; impending Milky Way-Andromeda collision --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------