AST 513: Stellar Systems

Fall 2007

All this information is subject to change!

For current version see http://www.sns.ias.edu/~tremaine/ast513/

Schedule

Monday, Wednesday 2:00-3:20, Library seminar room (Room 140), Peyton Hall

A few makeup lectures will be held Fridays at 2:00 (see below)

Textbooks

for the observations:

Binney, J., and Merrifield, M. 1998, Galactic Astronomy (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
            - errata here

for the theory:

Binney, J. and Tremaine, S. 1987,  Galactic Dynamics (Princeton: Princeton University Press)
             
A new edition should be coming out early in 2008, which unfortunately is too late for this course.
A pdf file (58 MB) containing a near-final copy of the new edition, is available here.
I am planning to get copies made for the registered students in the course.

Elmegreen, D. 1998, Galaxies and Galactic Structure (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall)
Heggie, D., and Hut, P. 2003, The Gravitational Million-Body Problem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Sparke, L., and Gallagher, J. 2000, Galaxies in the Universe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Spitzer, L. 1987, Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters (Princeton: Princeton University Press)

Course requirements and grading

•   five problem sets (50% of grade)
•   final written examination (50% of grade); held 

Scott Tremaine, 734-8191, tremaine@ias.edu
 

Schedule

Date                     Topic                                            Reading