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Lectures

Lecture notes are provided as a courtesy and mainly serve to centralize figures and reference links. They are not a verbatim record of the material discussed in class nor are they an adequate substitution for taking notes during class lecture.

  • Astrochemistry
  • Exoplanets and Planet Formation
  • Circumstellar Disks
  • Star Formation: Observations
  • Gravitational Collapse and Star Formation: Theory
  • Supernovae Remnants and the Hot Ionized Medium
  • Fluids and Shocks
  • Molecular Clouds, Observations, Chemistry, and Ionization
  • Molecular Hydrogen
  • HI Clouds: Observations, Heating and Cooling
  • Heating and Cooling of HII regions
  • Grain Temperatures, Physics, and Dynamics
  • Telescope Proposals and Time Allocation Committees
  • Scattering and Absorption by Small Particles
  • Interstellar Dust
  • Radiative Trapping
  • Nebular Diagnostics
  • Collisional Excitation
  • Ionization in Predominantly Neutral Regions (cool + warm HI regions)
  • Photoionized Gas (HII regions)
  • Interstellar Radiation Fields, Ionization Processes, and Recombination of Ions with Electrons
  • Introduction to Radio Astronomy and ALMA
  • Propagation of Radio Waves through the ISM
  • Emission and Absorption by a Thermal Plasma
  • Absorption Lines and Curve of Growth
  • H I 21-cm Emission and Absorption
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Spontaneous Emission, Stimulated Emission, and Absorption
  • Energy Levels of Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
  • Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamic Equilibrium
  • Collisional Processes
  • Introduction and Course Overview