Astro 596G Lecture Schedule
Last update: May 18, 2007
MWF 11-12pm, Room 204
Week of Jan. 10: Wed. Organizational meeting on
Jan. 10, very basic
introduction
Friday: Pick lecture topics
Week of Jan. 15: M: no class, MLK day
W: Jill: Intro to QSO
emission lines, unified model, reverberation mapping LECTURE PPT
Reading: Aloin, Johnson & Lira (AJ&L)
Chapter by Netzer, and Chapter by Peterson
F: Coffee discussion
Week of Jan 22: Attend
Rethinking Gravity Conference, especially
Monday afternoon
http://www.physics.arizona.edu/gravity
Friday Jan 26: Gary Schmidt. Unified Models. LECTURE NOTES
1977 M. Rowan-Robinson
1977 ApJ 213, 635. On the
Unity of Activity in Galaxies
1993 ARAA by Ski Antonucci: Unified
models for AGN and quasars
1995
Meg Urry and Paolo Padovani Unified
Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei
2000
ApJ 545, 63: Martin Elvis: A Structure for Quasars
Monday Jan 29: Martin Pessah. Viscosity and alpha-disks.
Balbus & Hawley 1998 Rev. Mod. Physics. Instability,
turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks
Balbus: 2003 ARAA Enhanced
Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks
Phil Armitage: 2007 Lecture Notes on the
Formation and Early Evolution of Planetary Systems
Wednesday Jan. 31 : Xiaohui, on surveys, luminosity functions, evolution
Friday Feb. 2 : Xiaohui on surveys, luminosity functions,
evolution
Week of Feb. 5:
M: Jill -- GPS and CSS Radio sources LECTURE PPT
W: Brandon Kelly: Radio Loud/Radio quiet
dichotomy LECTURE PPT
Sikora +
astro-ph/0604095. Radio-Loudness of Active
Galactic Nuclei: Observational Facts and Theoretical Implications
Best+ 2005, MNRAS,
362,9-24: A sample of radio-loud active galactic
nuclei in the SDSS
F: Coffee Discussion
Week of Feb 12:
M: Jonathan Trump: BALs, intrinsic absorption LECTURE PPT
W: Richard Green (Magorian Reln. Demographics)
Fri: Coffee Discussion
Week of Feb 19:
M: Nathan Stock: Abundances in the BLR LECTURE PPT
Hamann, Fred & Gary Ferland: 1999 ARAA 37, 487. Elemental Abundances in Quasistellar
Objects
Nagao, Marconi & Maiolino 2006, A&A 477, 157. The evolution of the broad-line region
among SDSS quasars
Hamann, F., Craig Warner, Matthias Dietrich, Gary Ferland
astro-ph/0701503 Quasar Metal Abundances
and Host Galaxy Evolution
W: Coffee Discussion
F: Mark Besel: Gravitational Lenses
LECTURE PPT
Recommended Literature Caustic Animation
Week of Feb 26: Steward Observatory Internal Symposium
Friday: Coffee discussion
Week of March 5:
M: Paul Smith (Blazars, BL Lacs, Polarimetry)
W: Darren Croton- AGN feedback and Galaxy Formation
F: Coffee Discussion
Week of March 12: Spring Break
Week of March 19:
M: Tod Lauer: Magorian Reln., Sgr A*
W: Jarad Gabor: Host Galaxies, Environments
Fri: Dave DeYoung: Jets
Week of March 26
M, W: Dave DeYoung: Jets, Jet-Cluster interactions
Fri: Coffee discussion with Dave DeYoung
Week of April 2
M: Desika: z=2 ULIRGs
W: Brandon Kelly: Variability
Fr: Coffee discussion
Week of April 9
M: Wiphu: Clustering of QSOs
W: Kevin: Microquasars, Stellar BHs PDF
Fri: Lei Xu: NLR, Ionization cones PPT
Week of April 16
M: Shane Bussman: Fe K-alpha PPT
W: Nadia Zakamska: Physics of Compton Thick material in AGN
Fr: Alex Quintero: Galaxy-AGN connection
Week of April 23:
M,W: David Ballantyne: Accretion Theory, X-rays
Fr: Coffee Discussion with David Ballantyne
Week of April 30
M: Krystal Tyler, Observations of Masers in AGN disks