Status: Approved for review release; not yet approved for instructional use. See review-report.md for full findings and outstanding items.
Course Planning
- Syllabus: syllabus.html
- Schedule: schedule.html
- Reference log: reference-log.md
- Review report: review-report.md
- Course manifest: course-manifest.json
Lectures
- Lecture 01: Measuring the Stars: Luminosity, Temperature, and Radius — slides · notes
- Lecture 02: Reading Starlight: Spectra and Spectral Classification — slides · notes
- Lecture 03: How Far Are the Stars? Parallax, Magnitudes, and Distance — slides · notes
- Lecture 04: Inside a Star: Structure and Nuclear Energy Generation — slides · notes
- Lecture 05: Stellar Nurseries: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation — slides · notes
- Lecture 06: Life After the Main Sequence: Giants, Clusters, and Stellar Aging — slides · notes
- Lecture 07: The Death of Sun-Like Stars: White Dwarfs and the Chandrasekhar Limit — slides · notes
- Lecture 08: Cataclysmic Endings: Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Pulsars — slides · notes
- Lecture 09: Black Holes and Curved Spacetime — slides · notes
- Lecture 10: The Milky Way: Structure, Rotation, and the Case for Dark Matter — slides · notes
- Lecture 11: Sorting the Galaxies: The Hubble Tuning Fork and Galaxy Properties — slides · notes
- Lecture 12: Active Galaxies and Galaxy Evolution — slides · notes
- Lecture 13: The Cosmic Web: Large-Scale Structure and Dark Energy — slides · notes
- Lecture 14: Hubble's Law and the Big Bang: Observational Cosmology — slides · notes
Labs
- Lab 01: Building a Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram from Real Nearby and Bright Stars
- Lab 02: Distance Modulus, Parallax, and the Sun's Nuclear Energy Budget
- Lab 03: Main-Sequence Lifetimes and a Star Cluster's Turnoff Age
- Lab 04: White Dwarf Density and the Chandrasekhar Limit: Sirius B
- Lab 05: The Milky Way's Rotation Curve and the Dark Matter Budget
- Lab 06: Classifying Real Galaxies on the Hubble Tuning Fork
- Lab 07: Hubble's Law: Distance, Redshift, and the Age of the Universe
Problem Sets
- PS 01: Stellar Properties, Spectra, and Classification — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 02: Distances, Magnitudes, and Stellar Structure/Energy Generation — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 03: Star Formation, the ISM, and Post-Main-Sequence Evolution — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 04: White Dwarfs, Supernovae, and Neutron Stars — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 05: Black Holes and the Milky Way Rotation Curve/Dark Matter — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 06: Galaxy Classification, AGN, and Galaxy Evolution — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
- PS 07: Large-Scale Structure and Observational Cosmology — problem set · solutions · assessment instructions
Source Code and Data
- Generator scripts: src/generate_astr230_content.py (lectures), src/generate_astr230_labs_psets.py (labs/problem sets)
- Datasets: data/README.md