Galaxies

Galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, and stellar populations.

Textbooks

• Dynamics and Astrophysics of Galaxies by Jo Bovy
• The Circumgalactic Medium (Chen & Zahedy), Cosmic quenching (De Lucia et al.), The Milky Way Bulge (Zoccali & Valenti), Milky Way Disk (Kawata et al.), Morphological Classification of Galaxies (Masters), 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

• Lectures and tutorials from the 10-week KITP program Building a Physical Understanding of Galaxy Evolution with Data-Driven Astronomy led by Tjitske Starkenburg, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Peter Behroozi, and John Wu (overall program here)

Lecture Notes + Materials

• Yale’s graduate ASTR 610: Theory of Galaxy Formation by Frank van den Bosch – notes + lecture videos and just notes
• GISM2 2023 International Summer School on the ISM of Nearby Galaxies
• ISM of Galaxies (from GISM)
• Interstellar medium lecture notes from the University of Maryland’s ASTR 670: The ISM and Gas Dynamics by Benedikt Diemer
• Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) PH 365: Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium – lecture videos and slides + assignments – by Prateek Sharma at IISc Bangalore
• The multiphase circumgalactic medium and its relation to galaxies: an observational perspective lecture notes by Michele Fumagalli from “The Circum-Galactic Medium Across Cosmic Time: An Observational and Modeling Challenge: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 52”
• The Multi-Scale Multi-Phase Circumgalactic Medium: Observed and Simulated lecture notes by Celine Peroux and Dylan Nelson for the 52nd Saas-Fee Advanced School

Visualizations

• Galaxy Map by Kevin Jardine – includes many different view 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

Additional Resources

• “A Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology”
• Galaxy formation from a timescale perspective by Peter Laursen – “aimed at non-astronomer scientists, but also of interest to students of astronomy”
• The IA Guide: A Breakdown of Intrinsic Alignment Formalisms – Lamman et al. (2023), an introduction to intrinsic alignment of galaxies