Formation and Evolution of Galaxies

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Literature

Galaxy Formation and Evolution.
Houjon Mo, Frank van den Bosch, and Simon White
Cambridge University Press, 2010 (MBW)
Review papers

Presentations

Part of your grade (60%) will be based on oral presentations. To allow sufficient time for discussion and introduction to the next topic, the presentations should not be longer than 20-25 minutes.

Each student must choose one topic from the list below and give the presentation on the indicated date.

List of topics

Schedule of presentations

Computer projects

Stellar population models: data
Chemical evolution
Galaxy interactions

Schedule

Week 1

Lecture, Tuesday 06.02.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Lecture:	Introduction - classical and modern theories for galaxy formation Observational facts
-	Literature:	MBW chapter 1, 2.3, 2.4

Tutorial, Fri 09.02.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG01.029

Fill in the presentation schedule.
List of topics
Assignments: PDF file

Week 2

Lecture, Tuesday 20.02.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Lecture:	Basics of cosmology (redshift, distances) Development and growth of density perturbations
-	Literature:	MBW chapter 3.1, 3.2 MBW chapter 4.1.6, 5.1, 5.4

Tutorial, Fri 23.02.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG01.029

Assignments: PDF file

Week 3

Lecture, Tuesday 27.02.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Presentations:	Press-Schechter theory (Joris Kersten) Merger trees (Luc IJspeert)
-	Lecture:	Stellar populations
-	Literature:	MBW chapter 7.2; Press & Schechter 1974, ApJ 187, 425 MBW chapter 7.3; Lacey & Cole 1993, MNRAS 262, 627; Fakhouri et al. 2010, MNRAS 406, 2267 MBW chapter 2.1, 10.2, 10.3

Computer practicum, Thu 01.03.2018, 10:45 - 12:30, HG03.761

Assignments: Assignment 1 - Stellar population synthesis
Data and examples

Week 4

Lecture, Tuesday 06.03.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Presentations:	Extremely metal-poor stars (Michelle Wassink) Stellar populations of dwarf galaxies (Niek Gerfen)
-	Lecture:	Chemical evolution
-	Literature:	Frebel & Norris 2015, ARA&A 53, 631 Tolstoy et al. 2009, ARA&A 47, 371; McConnachie 2012, MNRAS 356, 979 MBW chapter 10.4, 11.8

Computer practicum, Thu 08.03.2018, 10:45 - 12:30, HG03.761

Assignments: Assignment 1 - Stellar population synthesis Continued
Data and examples

Week 5

Lecture, Tuesday 13.03.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Presentations:	Young massive clusters (Gerard Hillebrink)
-	Lecture:	Star formation in galaxies
-	Literature:	Portegies Zwart et al. 2010, ARA&A 48, 431 MBW chapter 9.1-9.5

Computer practicum, Thu 15.03.2018, 10:45 - 12:30, HG03.761

Assignments: Assignment 2 - Chemical evolution
Data and source code

Week 6

Lecture, Tuesday 20.03.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Presentations:	The Initial Mass Function (Thomas Wijte)
-	Lecture:	Gaseous halos
-	Literature:	MBW Chapter 9.6; Bastian et al. 2010, ARA&A 48, 339 MBW Chapter 8.1 - 8.5

Computer practicum, Thu 22.03.2018, 10:45 - 12:30, HG03.761

Assignments: Assignment 2 - Chemical evolution cont'd
Data and source code

Week 7

Lecture, Tuesday 27.03.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Presentations:	Observational tests, cooling flows (Sofia Athanasiadou)
-	Lecture:	Disc galaxies
-	Literature:	MBW Chapter 8.8; Fabian 1994, ARA&A 32, 277 MBW Chapter 11.1 - 11.5

Computer practicum, Thu 29.03.2018, 10:45 - 12:30, HG03.761

Assignments: Assignment 2 - Chemical evolution cont'd
Data and source code

Week 8

Lecture, Tuesday 17.04.2018, 13:45 - 15:30, HG00.058

-	Presentations:	Bulges & Pseudobulges (Patrick Willemsen) Spiral structure (Danielle Pieterse)
-	Lecture:	Galaxy interactions and transformations
-	Literature:	MBW Chapter 11.5.4; Kormendy & Kennicutt 2004, ARA&A 42, 603 MBW Chapter 11.6; Shu 2016, ARA&A 54, 667 MBW Chapter 12

Computer practicum, Thu 19.04.2018, 10:45 - 12:30, HG03.761

Assignments: Assignment 3 - Galaxy interactions
Toomre code

Last updated: 14.04.2018 by Søren S. Larsen