AST 308

Galaxies & Cosmology

Spring 2004

MWF 11:30-12:20, Room 1420 BPS

Instructor: Jack Baldwin

(baldwin@pa.msu.edu), Room 3270 BPS, 355-9200 ext. 2411

Office Hours: Catch me in my office whenever you can… I’m usually there from 9AM – 5 PM.

Prerequisites: (AST 307) and (PHY 184 or PHY 184B or PHY 294H) and (MTH 234 or concurrently or MTH 254H or concurrently or LBS 220 or concurrently)

Textbook: Carroll & Ostlie, Modern Astrophysics.

Astronomy papers on the web:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html (ADS abstract service)

http://xxx.lanl.gov/form/astro-ph?MULTI=form+interface (astro-ph eprint archive)

Grading:

MIDTERM 1 (Feb 16)

MIDTERM 2 (Mar 29)

FINAL EXAM Tuesday May 4, 10-12AM

Syllabus

TERM PAPER GUIDELINES:

Audience is your fellow classmates, assuming they already know what I have covered and will cover in lectures.
Review paper style, bringing the reader up to date on your topic.

Similar in style to review articles by Steigman, Turner or Weinberg.
Not just a book report about a single paper, but rather a synthesis of what is going in the field.

10 pages minimum, double spaced, not counting figures.
OK to write in equations by hand, tape in figures etc.
Give references in ApJ style, such as (Baldwin 2004) in text, then reference list at end. Reference list does not count among the 10 pages. Steigman and Weinberg followed this style, but Turner did not.