Next Semester: advanced cosmology

• ASTR 507: Physical Cosmology
  ASTR 596PC (same course, old number) website from Spring 2010
• ASTR 596 and 496 RJF: Supernovae and Dark Energy

Cosmodynamics I

• Hubble Law
• Hubble's original diagram
• modern Hubble diagram from Hubble Telescope Key Project
• Hubble visualized

Active Galaxies

• discovery: image and spectrum of 3C 273 Schmidt (1963); modern images by Hubble and Chandra
• spectra of >47,000 QSOs from van den Berk et al (2001)
• current recordholder and spectrum (Mortlock et al 20111)
• AGN gallery
• gravitationally lensed quasar: the Einstein cross
• QSOs and host galaxies ... but also without hosts
• variability: example--movie of the Fermi sky
• Supermassive black holes
• Jets and superluminal motion
  • radio lobes
  • 3C175
  • 3C273; zoom into central engine and multiwavelength jet
  • M87 jet and superluminal movie and explanation
  • supercool simulation courtesy of Charles Gammie; simulation by Illinois alum John McKinney
• Unification models: one artist's cartoon and another cartoon and from the textbook

Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

• black hole correlations with bulge properties