Next Semester: Graduate Seminar Bonanza

• ASTR 596 AI: AI and Big Data in Astronomy
• ASTR 596/496 NPA: Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics; see version Fall 2009

Radiative Transitions

• semiclassical approximation
• transition probabilities
• dipole approximation
• selection rules

Absorption Lines and Curve of Growth

• observed absorption line spectra
  • the Sun
  • mystery star (spoiler)
  • interstellar medium lines of potassium and lithium towards zeta Ophiuchi, and in the SMC
• contributions to linewidths
• profile functions
• curve of growth
• hydrogen lines and the Lyman limit