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Solar System/Milky Way relative extent
Galactic coordinates
More Galactic coordinates
Standard Candle
Cepheid light curve
Cepheids in M31 and M100
Cepheid period-Luminosity relation
Animation of P-L relation
Hubble's discovery of Cepheids in M31
Light Curve Comparison
RR Lyrae light curve
Shapley's globular cluster distribution
Neutral H in the Milky Way
Spiral Structure in H I
Milky Way components
Vertical structure
ISM structure
Local Bubble
Local Chimney (polar)
Local Chimney (planar)
Windblown Bubble/H II region NGC 2359
Windblown Bubble/H II region NGC 6888
Windblown Bubble/ H II region NGC 7635
Rotation curve schematic
Southern Sky in Hα
Milky Way Panorama (galactic coordinates)
Annotated Equatorial Milky Way
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Photometric filters
Spectral classes
Stacked spectra
Line Strengths
HR Diagram
Parallax
Mass-Luminosity relation
Evolutionary track of the sun
Pillars of Creation
Proplyds
Cluster HR diagram montage
Evolutionary tracks for different masses
Summary of stellar evolution
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Gas-dust correlation
Possible spectroscopic manifestations of interstellar gas
Average extinction curve
Specific extinction curves
Depletion of refractory elements
Interplanetary dust particle
NASA Stardust mission
Graphical model of an interstellar grain
2/14
Images are from the reading.
2/18
Blackbody definition
Blackbody applet
Blackbody guessing game
Another blackbody applet
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
Ideal Gas Law page with downloadable applet
2/21
images
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Spectroscopic notation
Selection rules (van Dishoeck)
H I
2-photon continuum (van Dishoeck)
He I notation
low levels & transitions in He I
more complete He I levels & transitions (van Dishoeck)
[O I] energy levels (van Dishoeck)
[O I] transitions (van Dishoeck)
[O III], [N II] levels (van Dishoeck)
[O II], [S II] levels (van Dishoeck)
A
good page summarizing spectroscopic notation, selection rules for
allowed transitions, and some thermodynamics
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H ground state splitting
Radio telescope
Beam pattern
Keplerian rotation
Galactic rotation
Galactic rotation
Galactic rotation
Galactic rotation
Galactic rotation
Galactic rotation
Galactic rotation
H I profiles
Milky Way's warped H I disk
Thermal vs. Non-thermal Spectra
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lecture figures
4/7
HH object: optical-IR
Mass loss on the RGB
Radius evolution on the RGB
NCGC 6543 & shells
PN Sampler
Spindown of a pre-MS star (same idea for PN central stars)
The PN Binary Issue
The "Egg in polarized reflected light
Egg movie
Abell 39 old PN
Abell PNe mosaic
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Crab - optical
Crab - IR
Crab - radio
Crab - X-rays
Cas A - optical
Cas A - IR
Cas A - radio
Cas A - X-rays
Cygnus Loop - optical
Cygnus Loop - IR
Cygnus Loop - radio
Cygnus Loop - X-rays
LMC superbubble
Gamma Gem info
Gamma Gem magnitudes
Gamma UMa info
Gamma UMa fluxes (download)
Diagnostics calculator from STScI
Ionic Abundance calculator from STScI
John Mathis's Annual Reviews Article, "Interstellar Dust and Extinction"
Forbidden Line Temperature Calculator
Ionization Equilibrium notes from Robin Ciardullo at Penn State
Good Stromgrem Sphere Notes from Robin Ciardullo at Penn State
Common emission lines in planetary nebulae
Many good applets by J. Koppen
Alyssa Goodman's ISM course notes
General ISM Images from U. Calgary
The Multi-Wavelength Milky Way
Links from the Astrophysics Data Center
Nice website about the Schrodinger Equation
useful spectroscopic references
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