Special
Topics
in Astrophysics 29:235 - Fall 2012
Extragalactic
Astronomy
Information:
Instructor: Prof.
Philip Kaaret
Lectures: Monday and
Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 pm, 358 Van Allen Hall
Office: 702 Van Allen Hall
Lab: 626 and 608 Van Allen
Hall
Phone: 335-1985
E-mail: philip-kaaret [at]
uiowa.edu
Office hours:
10:00–11:00 pm Monday, 1:00–3:00 pm Tuesday, or just drop by.
Research projects:
"Identifying TeV Blazar Sources using WISE Color-Color Data", M. G.
Brorby and S. T. Griffiths, paper and talk.
"A New Look at Compact Groups in WISE Mid-Infrared", N.
Butterfield and A. H. Savage, paper and talk.
"Examining Supernovae Remnants/Interstellar Medium Interactions in
the Large Magellanic Cloud with WISE", S. De Pascuale and C. DeRoo,
paper and talk.
"A Mid-Infrared study of the properties of Blue Compact Dwarf
galaxies using the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer", D. A.
Ludovici and J. Toomey, paper and talk.
"Using Infrared Colors to Identify Obscured AGN", H. Marlowe and R.
Allured, paper and
talk.
"Correlations between the Cosmic Microwave Background and Infrared
Galaxies", B. Scheiner and J. McCoy, paper and talk.
Sample papers that could
form the basis for a research projects:
Active
Galactic Nuclei
High
redshift, dusty Lyman-alpha emitters
Blue
compact dwarf galaxies
Star-forming
galaxies with hot dust emission
Star
Formation in Local Galaxy Clusters
Spatial
distribution of star formation in galaxies
Links:
Wide-field
Infrared
Survey Explorer All-Sky Data Release
NASA ADS Search form
NASA HEASARC
ApJ
manuscript preparation
Emulateapj
latex
class
Web site
for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology by Peter Schneider
Ned
Wright's cosmology calculator
Python programming language
Code Academy
NumPy
tutorial
Matplotlib
tutorial
Stack Overflow (question and answer site for programming)
PyFits