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), Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Web (Tojeiro & Kraljic), Massive black holes and their galaxies (Beckmann & Smethurst), 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
• Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Scales: Progress and Pitfalls for CR-MHD Dynamical Models (Hopkins)

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
• Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years by Richard Ellis and Galaxy formation in the first billion years by Rachel Somerville from the 54th Saas-Fee Advanced Course, “Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years as seen by JWST”

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)
• Galaxy scaling relations from SDSS data from John Wu

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
• A Spectral Atlas for Quiescent Galaxies – Hammadouche et al.