Lecture Schedule

#	Title	OpenStax Astronomy 2e Reading	Paired Lab/PS
01	The Multiphase Interstellar Medium: Phases and Pressure Balance	Ch. 20.1 (The Interstellar Medium, descriptive only)	Lab 01 / PS 01
02	Heating, Cooling, and Thermal Instability	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles (Field 1965; McKee & Ostriker 1977)
03	The 21 cm Hyperfine Line: Spin Temperature and Radiative Transfer	Ch. 20.2 (Interstellar Gas, descriptive only)	Lab 02 / PS 02
04	HI Column Density: From Spectra to the Atomic Gas Budget	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles
05	Interstellar Dust I: Extinction and Reddening	Ch. 20.3 (Cosmic Dust, descriptive only)	Lab 03 / PS 03
06	Interstellar Dust II: Polarization and Thermal Emission	Ch. 20.3 (Cosmic Dust, descriptive only)
07	The Molecular Interstellar Medium: H2 Formation and CO as a Tracer	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles	Lab 04 / PS 04
08	Molecular Cloud Structure: Larson's Laws and the Virial Theorem	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles
09	The Jeans Instability: When Does a Gas Cloud Collapse?	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles	Lab 05 / PS 05
10	Gravitational Collapse: Free-Fall Time and the Star-Formation Efficiency Problem	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles
11	H II Regions I: Photoionization Equilibrium and the Stromgren Sphere	Ch. 20.2 (Interstellar Gas, descriptive only)	Lab 06 / PS 06
12	H II Regions II: Emission-Line Diagnostics	Not in OpenStax; derived from first principles
13	Interstellar Shocks: The Rankine-Hugoniot Jump Conditions	Ch. 20.5 (The Life Cycle of Cosmic Material, descriptive only)	Lab 07 / PS 07
14	Cosmic Rays, Magnetic Fields, and Multiwavelength ISM Synthesis	Ch. 20.4 (Cosmic Rays, descriptive only)

Lab Schedule

Lab	Title	Real Data Source
01	ISM Phase Pressure Balance and Thermal Equilibrium	Six real ISM phase parameters (standard published, McKee & Ostriker 1977; Draine 2011)
02	The 21 cm Line: Spin Temperature and HI Column Density	Real CNM/WNM spin temperatures and linewidths, and real 3C 273/Cygnus X-1 HI column densities (standard published, HI4PI Collaboration 2016 and X-ray absorption studies)
03	Interstellar Extinction and Dust Emission: Cygnus OB2 No. 12	Cygnus OB2 No. 12's real E(B-V)/R_V (standard published, Massey & Thompson 1991) and the Cardelli, Clayton & Mathis (1989) parametrization
04	Molecular Cloud Mass: Orion and Taurus Compared	Real Orion Molecular Cloud and Taurus Molecular Cloud parameters (standard published, Genzel & Stutzki 1989; Goldsmith et al. 2008)
05	Jeans Mass, Jeans Length, and Free-Fall Time	OMC-1 dense-core parameters and Barnard 68's real measured mass/size (standard published, Bergin & Tafalla 2007; Alves, Lada & Lada 2001)
06	The Stromgren Sphere: The Orion Nebula	Real theta1 Orionis C ionizing-photon rate and Orion Nebula electron density/temperature (standard published, Vacca, Garmany & Shull 1996; Baldwin et al. 1991)
07	Capstone: Shocks, Cosmic Rays, and Magnetic Fields in Cassiopeia A	Real Cassiopeia A shock velocity (standard published, Vink 2004), the PDG cosmic-ray spectrum, and the Crutcher (2012) molecular-cloud B-n relation