Astronomy 350
Lecture 21, Oct 17
Fall 2012
Lecture Notes:
pdf file
Black Holes
Black Holes: Evidence
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
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)
The Big Picture
Modern Cosmology
The Large Scale Structure of the Universe I
cosmological principle
actual data:
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
survey geometry
clustering:
all galaxies
actual data:
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
2-D slices:
all galaxies
2-D slices:
luminous red galaxies
video:
flythrough
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
Last modified: Wed Oct 17 10:41:33 CDT 2012