Università Roma Tre

1.
Summary of the lectures
2.
Celestial coordinates (1.3)
3.
Telescopes and angular resolution (6.1)
4.
Parallax distance (3.1)
5.
Flux, luminosity, apparent and absolute magnitudes, colors (3.2, 3.3, 3.6)
6.
The Black Body (3.4, 3.5)
7.
The Hydrogen atom, eccitation an the Boltzmann equation,
ionization and the Saha equation (8.1)
8.
The Hertzsprung-Russel diagram (8.2)
9.
The Transfer Equation, color excess (9.2, 9.3, 12.1)
10.
Spectroscopic measures of velocity, temterature and density
11.
The curve of growth and abundance measures (9.5)
12.
Internal structure of stars. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (10.1-4)
13.
The hydrogen nuclear reactions (10.3)
14.
Jeans mass. Collapsing clouds. Free Fall time. Initial Mass Function (12.2, 12.3)
15.
Open and globular clusters: stellar populations and HR diagrams (13.3)
16.
The Milky Way and the Local Group (24.1, 24.2)
17.
Metallicity (24.2)
18.
The rotation curve of galaxies and the dark matter (24.3)
19.
Galaxy classification (25.1)
20.
Collision/merging probability among galaxies and among stars

In parenthesis are the paragraphs from “An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, II ed. - B.W. Carrol, D.A.
Ostlie - Ed. Pearson, Addison Wesley ”.

Second part
1.
The measure of the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The Venus transit
2.
The distance scale ladder (27.1)
3.
The Hubble law of the expansion of the Universe (27.2)
4.
The center of the Milky Way and the central supermassive black hole (24.4)
5.
Active Galactic Nuclei and matter accretion on supermassive black holes (28.1, 28.2, 28.3)
6.
Star formation measures
7.
Galaxy evolution
8.
Cluster of galaxies and dark matter measures (27.3)
9.
Large scale structure of the Universe (27.3)
10.
The Big Bang an the cosmic background radiation (29.2)

“An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, II ed. - B.W. Carrol, D.A.
Ostlie - Ed. Pearson, Addison Wesley ”

1.
Summary of the lectures
2.
Celestial coordinates (1.3)
3.
Telescopes and angular resolution (6.1)
4.
Parallax distance (3.1)
5.
Flux, luminosity, apparent and absolute magnitudes, colors (3.2, 3.3, 3.6)
6.
The Black Body (3.4, 3.5)
7.
The Hydrogen atom, eccitation an the Boltzmann equation,
ionization and the Saha equation (8.1)
8.
The Hertzsprung-Russel diagram (8.2)
9.
The Transfer Equation, color excess (9.2, 9.3, 12.1)
10.
Spectroscopic measures of velocity, temterature and density
11.
The curve of growth and abundance measures (9.5)
12.
Internal structure of stars. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (10.1-4)
13.
The hydrogen nuclear reactions (10.3)
14.
Jeans mass. Collapsing clouds. Free Fall time. Initial Mass Function (12.2, 12.3)
15.
Open and globular clusters: stellar populations and HR diagrams (13.3)
16.
The Milky Way and the Local Group (24.1, 24.2)
17.
Metallicity (24.2)
18.
The rotation curve of galaxies and the dark matter (24.3)
19.
Galaxy classification (25.1)
20.
Collision/merging probability among galaxies and among stars

In parenthesis are the paragraphs from “An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, II ed. - B.W. Carrol, D.A.
Ostlie - Ed. Pearson, Addison Wesley ”.

Second part
1.
The measure of the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The Venus transit
2.
The distance scale ladder (27.1)
3.
The Hubble law of the expansion of the Universe (27.2)
4.
The center of the Milky Way and the central supermassive black hole (24.4)
5.
Active Galactic Nuclei and matter accretion on supermassive black holes (28.1, 28.2, 28.3)
6.
Star formation measures
7.
Galaxy evolution
8.
Cluster of galaxies and dark matter measures (27.3)
9.
Large scale structure of the Universe (27.3)
10.
The Big Bang an the cosmic background radiation (29.2)

“An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, II ed. - B.W. Carrol, D.A.
Ostlie - Ed. Pearson, Addison Wesley ”