Lectures: Galactic Astronomy
AS2001: Galactic Astronomy
Course Text: "Galactic Astronomy" by Binney and Merrifield
This course aims to explore the basics of
Galactic Astronomy in order to construct a model of our Galaxy based on our
knowledge of the individual components, the stars, gas and dust.
Starting from the distribution of stars in the sky, the lectures explore how we
determine stellar positions and kinematics from the observables.
Lecture notes are available as 6 slides per page postscript or PDFs
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Star Counting and Dust
Lecture 3: Stellar Census
Lecture 4: Stellar Dynamics
Lecture 5: The Disc Stars
Lecture 6: Peculiar Velocities
Lecture 7: The Halo Stars
Lecture 8: Oort's Constants
Lecture 9: HI Rotation Curve
Lecture 10: Gravitational Lensing
Lecture 11: The Galactic Nucleus