Astrophysics Seminar - Previous Quarters

Fall 2007: Essential Papers in Astronomy

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Greg Rudnick, NOAO: Galaxies in Normal Intermediate Redshift Clusters

Spring 2007: Topics in Astro- and Nuclear Physics

Guest Astro Speakers:

Dr. Greg Sivakoff, Ohio State University: Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies

Dr. Karen Leighly, University of Oklahoma: The Quasar Continuum Spectral Energy Distribution and Broad-line Region Emission and Kinematics

Winter 2007: Ethics in Astronomy

Fall 2006: Neutrino Astrophysics

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum: The Filamentation Instability in Magnetized Astrophysical Plasmas

Dr. Chris Impey, University of Arizona: The COSMOS Survey

Spring 2006: Topics in Astro- and Nuclear Physics

Joint ApI/INPP Seminar

Spring 2005: Topics in Astro- and Nuclear Physics

Joint ApI/INPP Seminar

Winter 2005: Ground-based Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Gerard Williger, Johns Hopkins University: The D/H Ratio in the Interstellar Medium toward the White Dwarf PG 0038+199

Dr. Wei Cui, Purdue University: A Multiwavelength View of Mrk 421

Dr. Brian Mason, National Radio Astronomy Observatory: Beyond the First Peak: Microwave Background Cosmology

Fall 2004: Science with the MDM Telescope

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Rita Sambruna, George Mason University: The X-Ray View of Radio-Loud AGN

Dr. Steve Zepf, Yale University:

Dr. Darren DePoy, Ohio State University: Observing with the MDM Observatory

Spring 2004: Astrophysical Black Holes

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Timothy Hamilton, Shawnee State University: The Fundamental Plane of Quasars

Dr. Lowell Boone, College of Wooster: The Solar Tower Air Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE)

Winter 2004: Current Topics in Astrophysics

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Paul Nulsen, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Outbursts in M87

Fall 2003: Astrophysical Hydrodynamics

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Jay Lockman, NRAO/Green Bank: The Hydrogen at the Edge of the Galaxy

Dr. Paul Ricker, University of Illinois: Hydrodynamic Simulations of Galaxy Clusters

Dr. Chris DePree, Agnes Scott College: High-Mass Star Formation

Spring 2003: Gamma-Ray Bursts

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Dirk Petry, NASA/Goddard: Recent Results from Cherenkov Telescopes and Prospects for Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Dr. Karen Leighly, University of Oklahoma: The Highs and Lows of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Dr. Nancy Levenson, University of Kentucky: An X-Ray View of Obscured AGN and the Starburst Connection

Winter 2003: The Hubble Deep Fields

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Jim Ulvestad, NRAO "VLBA Imaging of Seyfert Galaxy Nuclei."

Dr. Marco Fatuzzo, Xavier University "Gamma-ray emission from Sgr A East."

Dr. Charles Nelson, Drake University "Black Holes, Bulges, and Active Galactic Nuclei."

Fall 2002: Topics in Stellar Astrophysics

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Jim Chiang, SLAC "Multiwavelength Observations, Black Hole Masses, and Accretion Rates in Seyfert Galaxies."

Dr. Dave DeYoung, NOAO "Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters: A New Look."

Dr. Dirk Grupe, Ohio State University "X-Ray Studies of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies."

Other Activities: Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory tour

Spring 2002: Science with SIRTF - the Space Infrared Telescope Facility

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Fred Hamann, University of Florida, "Probing the Link Between Quasars, Star Formation, and Galaxy Evolution."

Dr. Steve Alexander, Miami University of Ohio, "Planetary Formation in the Outer Solar System: New Ideas."

Winter 2002: Dark Energy and the New "Standard" Cosmology

Statler, T. 2002, "Homogeneous Cosmological Models: A Primer," unpublished.

Riess et al. 1998, "Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant," AJ, 116, 1009.

Riess et al. 2001, "The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration," ApJ, 560, 49.

Hu et al. 2002, "The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies," astro-ph/9604166.

Netterfield et al., "A measurement by BOOMERANG of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background," astro-ph/0104460.

de Bernardis et al. 2002, "Multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background: Significance and consequences for cosmology," ApJ, 564, 559.

Caldwell, Dave, & Steinhardt 1998, "Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation of State," Phys Rev Lett 80, 1582.

Balbi, Baccigalupi, Matarrese, Perrotta, & Vittorio 2001, "Implications for Quintessence Models from MAXIMA-1 and BOOMERANG-98," ApJL, 547, L89.

Turner, M. S. 2002, "The New Cosmology," astro-ph/0202007.

Disney, M. J., 2000, "The Case Against Cosmology," astro-ph/0009020.

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Sally Oey, Lowell Observatory, "Massive Star Feedback and Consequences for Chemical Evolution."

Fall 2001: Radio Galaxies

Spring 2001: Galaxy Clusters

Winter 2001: Globular Clusters

Binney, J. & Merrifield, M., Galactic Astronomy, (Princeton Univ. Press), section 6.1.

Bedin, L. R., Piotto, G., Zoccali, M., Stetson, P. B., Saviane, I., Cassisi, S., & Bono, G. 2000, "The Anomalous Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 2808: Mosaic Wide-Field Multi-Band Photometry," A&A, 363, 159

Lynden-Bell, D. & Eggleton, P. P. 1980, "On the Consequences of the Gravothermal Catastrophe," MNRAS, 191, 483

Zinn, R. 1985, "The Globular Cluster System of the Galaxy. IV. The Halo and Disk Subsystems," ApJ, 293, 424

Gebhardt, K. & Kissler-Patig, M. 1999, "Globular Cluster Systems. I. V-I Color Distributions," AJ, 118, 1526

Zepf, S. E., Beasley, M. A., Bridges, T. J., Hanes, D. A., Sharples, R. M, Ashman, K. M., and Geisler, D. 2000, "Dynamical Constraints on the Formation of NGC 4472 and its Globular Clusters," AJ, 120, 2928

King, I. R., Sosin, C., & Cool, A. M. 1995, "Mass Segregation in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397," ApJL, 452, L33; King, I. R., Anderson, J., Cool, A. M., & Piotto, G. 1998, "The Luminosity Function of the Globular Cluster NGC 6397 Near the Limit of Hydrogen Burning," ApJL, 492, L37

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Gus Evrard, University of Michigan, "Galaxy Clusters in Hubble Volume Simulations."

Fall 2000: Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei

Ferrarese, L., & Merritt, D. 2000, "A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies," ApJ, 539, L9

Ghez, A. M., Klein, B. L., Morris, M., & Becklin, E. E., 1998, "High Proper-Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sagittarius A*: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy," ApJ, 509, 678

Ho, L. C., Filippenko, A. V., & Sargent, W. L. W., 1997, "A Search for Dwarf Seyfert Nuclei. V. Demographics of Nuclear Activity in Nearby Galaxies," ApJ, 487, 568

Miyoshi, M., et al., 1995, "Evidence for a Black-Hole from High Rotation Velocities in a Sub-Parsec Region of NGC 4258," Nature, 373, 127

Rees, M. J., 1990, "Dead Quasars in Nearby Galaxies?" Nature, 247, 817

Soltan, A., 1982, "Masses of Quasars," MNRAS, 200, 115

van der Marel, R. P., 1998, "Relics of Nuclear Activity: Do All Galaxies Have Massive Black Holes?" in IAU Symposium 186

Wandel, A., 2000, "The Black Hole-Host Galaxy Relation in Active Galactic Nuclei," astro-ph/0009357

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Jim Braatz, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, "Megamasers in Galaxy Nuclei."

Dr. Stefan Collier, Ohio State University, "The Inner Structure of Active Galaxies."

Spring 2000: Starbursts

Hernquist, L., & Barnes, J. E., 1994, "Dynamics of Gas in Major Mergers," in Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies, ed. I. Shlosman (Cambridge U. Press), 313

Kennicutt, R. C., 1998, "The Global Schmidt Law in Star-Forming Galaxies," ApJ, 498, 541

Lehnert, M. D., 1999, "Superwinds and the Nature of Starburst Galaxies," astro-ph/9904140

Mirabel, I. F., & Duc, P. A., 1994, "Induced Starbursts in Mergers," in Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies, ed. I. Shlosman (Cambridge U. Press), 313

Moffat, A. F. J., 1997, "Stellar Content of Resolved Starbursts," RevMexAA (Serie de Conferencias), 6, 108

Sanders, D. B., 1999, "The Great Debate: The Case for AGNs," astro-ph/9908297

Steidel, C. C., 1996, "Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Normal Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z>3," ApJ, 462, L17

Weedman, D. W., 1981, "NGC 7714: The Prototype Star-Burst Galactic Nucleus," ApJ, 248, 105

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Donald Terndrup, Ohio State University, "Star-Formation History of the Galactic Bulge."

Dr. Margaret Hanson, University of Cincinnati, "Infrared Observations of Massive Star-Forming Regions."

Winter 2000: Great Papers in Astrophysics II

Keeler, J. E. 1895, "A Spectrocopic Proof of the Meteoric Constitution of Saturn's Rings," ApJ, 1, 416.

Trumpler, R. J., 1930, "Absorption of Light in the Galactic System", PASP, 42, 214; Sandage, A. 1988, "Comment on the 1930 Trumpler Paper on Interstellar Extinction", PASP, 100, 310.

Shapley, H. 1919, "Studies Based on the Colors and Magnitudes in Stellar Clusters. XII: Remarks on the Arrangement of the Sidereal Universe," ApJ, 49, 311.

Hubble, E. & Humason, M. L. 1931, "The Velocity-Distance Relation Among Extra-Galactic Nebulae," ApJ, 74, 43.

Dicke, R. H., Peebles, P. J. E., Roll, P. G., & Wilkinson, D. T. 1965, "Cosmic Black-Body Radiation", ApJ, 142, 414; Penzias, A. A. & Wilson, R. W. 1965, "A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s", ApJ, 142, 419.

Klebesadel, R. W., Strong, I. B., & Olson, R. A. 1973, "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin," ApJ, 182, L85; Cline, T. L., Desai, U. D., Klebesadel, R. W., & Strong, I. B. 1973, "Energy Spectra of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts," ApJ, 185, L1; Wheaton, W. B., Ulmer, M. P., Baity, W. A., Datlowe, D. W., Elcan, M. J., Peterson, L. E., Klebesadel, R. W., Strong, I. B., Cline, T. L., & Desai, U. D. 1973, "The Direction and Spectral Variability of a Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst," ApJ, 185, L57.

Toomre, A. & Toomre, J. 1972, "Galactic Bridges and Tails," ApJ, 178, 623.

Fall 1999: X-ray Astronomy

Panzera, M. R., Tagliaferri, G., Pasinetti, L, & Antonell, E. 1999, "X-ray Emission from A0-F6 spectral Type Stars," A&A, 348, 161.

George, I. M., Turner, T. J., Mushotzky, R., Nandra, K., & Netzer, H. 1998, "ASCA Observations of the Ionized Gas in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3783," ApJ, 503, 174.

Gotthelf, E. V. 1998, "Radio-Quiet X-ray Pulsars in Supernova Remnants and the 'Missing' Pulsar Problem," preprint (astro-ph/9809139).

Matsumoto, H., et al. 1997, "X-ray Properties of Early-Type Galaxies as Observed with ASCA," ApJ, 482, 133.

Moran, E. C., & Lehnert, M. D. 1997, "The Complex Broadband X-ray Spectrum of the Starburst Galaxy M82," ApJ, 478, 172.

Mulchaey, J. S., & Zabludoff, A. I. 1999, "The Isolated Elliptical NGC 1132: Evidence for a Merged Group of Galaxies?" ApJ, 514, 133.

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Michael Eracleous, Pennsylvania State University, "Searching for the Difference Between Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Active Galaxies Through X-Ray Observations."

Dr. Adrian Melott, University of Kansas, "The Bull's-Eye Effect and the Mass Density of the Universe."

Spring 1999: Dark Matter

Bothun, G. 1998, Modern Cosmological Observations and Problems (Taylor & Francis), Ch. 4.

Reid, I. N., Kirkpatrick, J. D., Liebert, J., Burrows, A., Gizis, J. E., Burgasser, A., Dahn, C. C., Monet, D., Cutri, R., Beichman, C. A., & Skrutskie, M. 1999, "L Dwarfs and the Substellar Mass Function," preprint.

Miralda-Escude, J. 1991, "Gravitational Lensing by Clusters of Galaxies: Constraining the Mass Distribution," ApJ, 370, 1.

Fischer, P. & Tyson, J. A. 1997, "The Mass Distribution of the Most Luminous X-Ray Cluster RXJ 1347.5-1145 from Gravitational Lensing," AJ, 114, 14.

Boehringer, H., Tanaka, Y., Mushotsky, R. F., Ikebe, Y., & Hattori, M. 1998, "An ASCA-ROSAT Study of the Distant, Lensing Cluster A 2390," A&A, 334, 789.

Little, B. & Tremaine, S. 1987, "Distant Satellites as Probes of Our Galaxy's Mass Distribution," ApJ, 320, 493.

Alcock, C. et al. (The MACHO Collaboration) 1996, "The MACHO Project: Limits on Planetary-Mass Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo from Gravitational Microlensing," ApJ, 471, 774.

Freese, K., Fields, B., & Graff, D. 1999, "Limits on Stellar Objects as the Dark Matter of Our Halo: Nonbaryonic Dark Matter Seems to be Required," preprint (astro-ph/9904401).

Hogg, D. W., Quinlan, G. D., & Tremaine, S. 1991, "Dynamical Limits on Dark Mass in the Outer Solar System," AJ, 101, 2274.

Guest Speaker: Dr. James Liebert, Steward Observatory, "Low-Mass Stars and Dark Matter."

Winter 1999: Infrared Astronomy

Infrared Panel Working Papers (1991), Astronomy & Astrophysics Survey Committee, National Academy Press.

Helou, G., 1986, "The IRAS Colors of Normal Galaxies," ApJ, 311, L33.

Sturm, E., et al. 1996, "ISO-SWS Spectroscopy of Arp 220: a Highly Obscured Starburst Galaxy," A&A, 315, L133

Smail, I., Ivison, R. J., & Blain, A. W. 1997, "A Deep Submillimeter Survey of Lensing Clusters: A New Window on Galaxy Formation and Evolution," ApJ, 490, L5

McLean, I. S., 1997, Electronic Imaging in Astronomy (Wiley), Ch. 8.

Jayawardhana, R., et al. 1998, "A Dust Disk Surrounding the Young A Star HR 4796A," ApJ, 503, L79.

Sellgren, K., Tokunaga, A. T., & Nakada, Y. 1990, "The 3.3 Micron Feature, H_2, and Ionized Gas in the Orion Bar," ApJ, 349, 120.

Hanson, M. M. 1998, "ZAMS O Stars," in Properties of Hot Luminous Stars, ed. I. Howarth (ASP), 1.

Ghez, A. M., Klein, B. L., Morris, M., & Becklin, E. E. 1998, "High Proper-Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sagittarius A*: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy," ApJ, 509, 678.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Darren DePoy, Ohio State University, "Infrared Instrumentation."

Fall 1998: Extrasolar Planets

Dick, S. J., The Biological Universe (Cambridge U. Press), Ch. 4.

Mayor, M. & Queloz, D. 1995, "A Jupiter-Mass Companion to a Solar-Type Star," Nature, 378, 355; Marcy, G. W. & Butler, R. P. 1996, "A Planetary Companion to 70 Virginis," ApJL, 464, L147.

Butler, R. P., Marcy, G. W., Williams, E., McCarthy, C., & Dosanjh, P. 1996, "Attaining Doppler Precision of 3 m/s," PASP, 108, 500.

Wolszczan, A. & Frail, D. A. 1992, "A Planetary System Around the Millisecond Pulsar PSR1257+12," Nature, 355, 145; Rasio, F. A., Nicholson, P. D., Shapiro, S. L., & Teukolsky, S. A. 1992, "An Observational Test for the Existence of a Planetary System Orbiting PSR1257+12," Nature, 355, 325; Wolszczan, A. 1994, "Confirmation of Earth-Mass Planets Orbiting the Millisecond Pulsar PSR1257+12," Science, 264, 538.

Pollack, J. B. 1984, "Origin and History of the Outer Planets: Theoretical Models and Observational Constraints," ARAA, 22, 389.

Boss, A. P. 1998, "Evolution of the Solar Nebula. IV. Giant Gaseous Protoplanet Formation," ApJ, 503, 923.

Lin, D. N. C., Bodenheimer, P., & Richardson, D. C. 1996, "Orbital Migration of the Planetary Companion of 51 Pegasi to its Present Location," Nature, 380, 606; Rasio, F. A. & Ford, E. B. 1996, "Dynamical Instabilities and the Formation of Extrasolar Planetary Systems," Science, 274, 954; Murray, N., Hansen, B., Holman, M., & Tremaine, S. 1998, "Migrating Planets," Science, 279, 69.

Marcy, G. W. & Butler, R. P. 1998, "Detection of Extrasolar Giant Planets," ARAA, 36, 57.

Spring 1998: Cosmology

Peebles, P.J.E., Principles of Physical Cosmology (Princeton U. Press), Sections 3, 5 & 6.

Loveday, J., et al., "Large-scale structure in the Universe: Results from the STROMLO-APM redshift survey", 1992, Astrophysical Journal, 400, L3.

Mather, J.C., et al., "Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background spectrum by the COBE FIRAS instrument", 1994, Astrophysical Journal, 420, 439.

Scott, Douglas, Silk, J. & White, Martin, "From Microwave anisotropies to Cosmology", 1995, Science, 268, 829.

Turner, M.S, "Inflation: from theory to observation and back", 1995, Summary of invited talk given at the 17th Texas Symposium in Relativistic Astrophysics (Munich, Germany, Dec. '94).

Fukugita, M., Hogan, C.J. & Peebles, P.J.E., "The cosmic distance scale and the Hubble constant", 1993, Nature, 366, 309.

Winter 1998: Radio Astronomy

Burke, B. & Graham-Smith, F, An Introduction to Radio Astronomy (Cambridge U. Press), Ch. 1 - 3.

Jansky, K. G. 1933, "Extraterrestial Disturbances Apparently of Extraterrestrial Origin", Proc. IRE, 21, 1387; Jansky, K. G. 1935, "A Note on the Source of the Interstellar Interference", Proc. IRE, 23, 1158; Reber, G. 1940, "Cosmic Static", ApJ, 91, 621; Reber, G. 1944, "Cosmic Static", ApJ, 100 279.

Burke, B. & Graham-Smith, F, Op. Cit., Ch. 4.

Hewish, A., Bell, S. J., Pilkington, J. D. H., Scott, P. F., & Collins, R. A. 1968, "Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source", Nature, 217, 709; Nice, D. J., Fruchter, A. S., & Taylor, J. H. 1995, "A Search for Fast Pulsars Along the Galactic Plane", ApJ, 449, 156.

Lerner, M. S. 1995, "Millimetre VLBI Observations - Hybrid Mapping and Model Fitting", Chalmers Univ. of Technology Tech. Report 209L, Ch. 1 & 2 (excerpts).

Burns, J. O., Christiansen, W. A., & Hough, D. H. 1982, "Multifrequency VLA Observations of 3C 388: Evidence for an Intermittent Jet?", ApJ, 257, 538.

Ewen, H. I. & Purcell, E. M. 1951, "Radiation from Galactic Hydrogen at 1,420 Mc./sec.", Nature, 168, 356; Muller, C. A. & Oort, J. H. 1951, "The Interstellar Hydrogen Line at 1,420 Mc./sec., and an Estimate of Galactic Rotation", Nature, 168, 357; Begeman, K. G. 1989, "HI Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies: I. NGC 3198", A&A 223, 47.

Dame, T. M., Ungerechts, H., Cohen, R. S., de Geus, E. J., Grenier, I. A., May, J., Murphy, D. C., Nyman, L.-A., & Thaddeus, P. 1987, "A Composite CO Survey of the Entire Milky Way", ApJ, 322, 706; Koper, E., Dame, T. M., Israel, F. P., & Thaddeus, P. 1991, "A Complete CO Survey of M31", ApJL, 383, L11.

Sault, R. J., Oosterloo, T., Dulk, G. A., & Leblanc, Y. 1997, "The First Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Celestial Object at Radio Wavelengths: Jupiter's Radiation Belts", A&A, 324, 1190; Leblanc, Y., Dulk, G. A., Sault, R. J., & Hunstead, R. W. 1997, "The Radiation Belts of Jupiter at 13 and 22 cm I. Observations and 3-D Reconstruction", A&A, 319, 274.

Fall 1997: Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei

Thorne, K. 1994, Black Holes and Time Warps (New York: Norton), Ch. 9

Netzer, H. 1990, "AGN Emission Lines", excerpts from Active Galactic Nuclei, Saas-Fee Course 20 (Berlin: Springer), 57.

Peterson, B. M. 1993, "Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei", PASP, 105, 247.

Rees, M. J. 1997, "Astrophysical Evidence for Black Holes", astro-ph/9701161v2.

Peterson, B. M. 1997, An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei (Cambridge U. Press), Ch. 1, 7, 9.

Barlow, T. A., Hamann, F., & Sargent, W. L. W. 1997, "Partial Coverage and Time Variability of Narrow-Line Intrinsic QSO Absorption Systems", in Mass Ejection from Active Galactic Nuclei, ASP Conf. Series 128, ed. N. Arav et al., 13.

Sanders, D. B., & Mirabel, I. F. 1996, "Luminous Infrared Galaxies", ARAA, 34, 749.

Genzel, R., Hollenbach, D., & Townes, C. H. 1994, "The Nucleus of Our Galaxy", Reports on Progress in Physics, 57, 417.

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Rick Pogge, Ohio State University, "AGN Unification."

Dr. Keven Uchida, Ohio State University, "The Galactic Center."

Spring 1997: Great Papers in Astrophysics

Hubble, E. 1926, "Extra-Galactic Nebulae", ApJ, 64, 321.

Eggen, O. J., Lynden-Bell, D., Sandage, A. R. 1962, "Evidence from the Motions of Old Stars that the Galaxy Collapsed", ApJ, 136, 748.

Spitzer, L. & Schwarzschild, M. 1951, "The Possible Influence of Interstellar Clouds on Stellar Velocities", ApJ, 114, 385.

Trumpler, R. J., 1930, "Absorption of Light in the Galactic System", PASP, 42, 214; Sandage, A. 1988, "Comment on the 1930 Trumpler Paper on Interstellar Extinction", PASP, 100, 310.

Peebles, P. J. E. & Ostriker, J. P. 1973, "A Numerical Study of the Stability of Flattened Galaxies; or, Can Cold Galaxies Survive?", ApJ, 186, 467.

Hulse, R. A. & Taylor, J. H. 1973, "Discovery of a Pulsar in a Binary System", ApJ, 195, L51; Taylor, J. H. & Weisberg, J. M. 1982, "A New Test of General Relativity: Gravitational Radiation and the Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16", ApJ, 253, 908.

Spitzer, L. 1946, "Astronomical Advantages of an Extra-Terrestrial Observatory"; Spitzer, L. 1974, "History of the Large Space Telescope", both reprinted in Dreams, Stars, and Electrons.

Dicke, R. H., Peebles, P. J. E., Roll, P. G., & Wilkinson, D. T. 1965, "Cosmic Black-Body Radiation", ApJ, 142, 414; Penzias, A. A. & Wilson, R. W. 1965, "A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s", ApJ, 142, 419.

Winter 1997: X-ray Astronomy

Audley, M. D., Kelley, R. L., Boldt, E. A., Jahoda, K. M., Marshall, F. E., Petre, R., Serlemitsos, P. J., Smale, A. P., Swank, J. H., & Weaver, K. A. 1996, "A High-Resolution X-ray Spectrum of Centaurus X-3", ApJ, 457, 397.

Tragliaferri, G., Covino, S., Fleming, T. A., Gagne, M., Pallavicini, R., Haardt, F., & Uchida, Y., "Coronal X-ray Emission of HD 35850: the ASCA View", astro-ph preprint 9611160.

Blanton, E. L. & Helfand, D. J. 1996, "ASCA Observations of the Composite Supernova Remnant G29.7-0.3", ApJ, 470, 961.

Petre, R. 1993, "X-Ray Properties of Starburst Galaxies," in The Nearest Active Galaxies, ed. J. Beckman et al. (CSIC Press), 117.

Sarazin, C. L. 1997, "X-ray Emission from Elliptical Galaxies", in The Second Stromlo Symposium: The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies, M. Arnaboldi, G. S. Da Costa, & P. Saha, eds., (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), p. 375.

Pounds, K. A., Nandra, K., Stewart, G. C., George, I. M., & Fabian, A. C. 1990, "X-ray Reflection from Cold Matter in the Nuclei of Active Galaxies", Nature, 344, 132; Mushotzky, R. F., Fabian, A. C., Iwasawa, K., Kunieda, H., Matsuoka, M., Nandra, K., & Tanaka, Y. 1995, "Detection of Broad Iron K Lines in Active Galaxies," MNRAS, 272, L9.

Zabludoff, A. I. & Zaritsky, D. 1995, "A Collision of Subclusters in Abell 754", ApJL, 447, L21.

Irwin, J. A. & Sarazin, C. L. 1995, "ROSAT X-ray Observations of the 2A 0335+096 Cluster of Galaxies", ApJ, 455, 497.

Fall 1997: Elliptical Galaxies