Galaxies
Galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, and stellar populations.
Textbooks + Longer Articles
- Dynamics and Astrophysics of Galaxies by Jo Bovy
- The Chemical Evolution of Galaxies (Curti), The Circumgalactic Medium (Chen & Zahedy), Cosmic quenching (De Lucia et al.), Cosmological Simulations of Galaxies (Feldmann & Bieri), The Formation of Globular Clusters (Kruijssen), The initial mass function of stars (Kroupa et al.), The Intergalactic Medium (Tejos), The Interstellar Medium (Saintonge), Gas in Galaxies (Leroy & Bolatto), Mergers of galaxies (Kaviraj), The Milky Way Bulge (Zoccali & Valenti), Milky Way Disk (Kawata et al.), Morphological Classification of Galaxies (Masters), Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Enrichment (Kobayashi), Observations of the First Galaxies in the Era of JWST (Stark et al.), The satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and Andromeda (Doliva-Dolinsky, Collins, & Martin), Semi-empirical Models of Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Lapi, Boco, & Shankar), and The Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies (Iyer et al.) chapters in the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
Tutorials + Notebooks
Lecture Notes + Materials
Visualizations + Interactives
- Galaxy Map by Kevin Jardine – includes many different views of the Milky Way using various references (may require some poking around to find all of the different maps)
- Video of the Lyman alpha forest in an expanding universe
pipes_vis
(Leung et al. 2021) – interactive SED modeling
gaiacmds
– good enough simple membership selection to recover color-magnitude diagrams with easy overplotting of isochrones for use in the classroom (by Ava Polzin)
Additional Resources