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Course Planning
Lectures
- Lecture 01: The Multiphase Interstellar Medium: Phases and Pressure Balance — slides · notes
- Lecture 02: Heating, Cooling, and Thermal Instability — slides · notes
- Lecture 03: The 21 cm Hyperfine Line: Spin Temperature and Radiative Transfer — slides · notes
- Lecture 04: HI Column Density: From Spectra to the Atomic Gas Budget — slides · notes
- Lecture 05: Interstellar Dust I: Extinction and Reddening — slides · notes
- Lecture 06: Interstellar Dust II: Polarization and Thermal Emission — slides · notes
- Lecture 07: The Molecular Interstellar Medium: H2 Formation and CO as a Tracer — slides · notes
- Lecture 08: Molecular Cloud Structure: Larson’s Laws and the Virial Theorem — slides · notes
- Lecture 09: The Jeans Instability: When Does a Gas Cloud Collapse? — slides · notes
- Lecture 10: Gravitational Collapse: Free-Fall Time and the Star-Formation Efficiency Problem — slides · notes
- Lecture 11: H II Regions I: Photoionization Equilibrium and the Stromgren Sphere — slides · notes
- Lecture 12: H II Regions II: Emission-Line Diagnostics — slides · notes
- Lecture 13: Interstellar Shocks: The Rankine-Hugoniot Jump Conditions — slides · notes
- Lecture 14: Cosmic Rays, Magnetic Fields, and Multiwavelength ISM Synthesis — slides · notes
Labs
- Lab 01: ISM Phase Pressure Balance and Thermal Equilibrium
- Lab 02: The 21 cm Line: Spin Temperature and HI Column Density
- Lab 03: Interstellar Extinction and Dust Emission: Cygnus OB2 No. 12
- Lab 04: Molecular Cloud Mass: Orion and Taurus Compared
- Lab 05: Jeans Mass, Jeans Length, and Free-Fall Time
- Lab 06: The Stromgren Sphere: The Orion Nebula
- Lab 07: Capstone: Shocks, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields in Cassiopeia A
Problem Sets
- Problem Set 01: ISM Phases and Pressure Balance / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 02: The 21 cm Line and HI Column Density / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 03: Extinction, Reddening, and Dust Emission / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 04: Molecular Cloud Mass Estimators / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 05: Jeans Instability and Collapse Timescales / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 06: H II Region Diagnostics and the Stromgren Sphere / solutions / assessment
- Problem Set 07: Shocks, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields / solutions / assessment