Astronomy 350
Lecture 22, Oct 14
Fall 2011
Lecture Notes:
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Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter in External Galaxies
gallery
of lensing by individual galaxies
lensing
by clusters of galaxies:
Abell 1689
,
Abell 2218
,
0024+1654
,
Abell 370
,
SDSS J1004+4112
using lensing to
map the dark mattter
the
bullet cluster
and dark matter
General Relativity
Black Holes
Size and recipe
Black holes from afar, near, and
inside
Black hole
inspiral
and
collisions
Evidence for Black Holes
X-ray
binaries
:
Cygnus X-1
Milky Way center:
Radio
overview
The power of
adaptive optics
Stellar orbits:
Munich group
,
UCLA group
possibly related: gamma-ray
bubbles
other galaxies
active galaxies:
M87
; AGN
gallery
gravitationally lensed quasar: the
Einstein cross
quasar and
host galaxies
supermassive black holes
black holes and galaxies somehow
know about each other
an important clue?
a binary supermassive black hole pair!
Gravitational radiation
Hulse & Taylor's
award-winning
binary pulsar
gravity-wave observatories:
LIGO
(operational) and
LISA
(future)
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
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