Astronomy 8300 - The Interstellar Medium

Prof. Michael Crenshaw (Georgia State University)

Course Materials - Syllabus, Lectures

• Syllabus (in PDF)

• 1. Introduction (in PDF)

• 2. Diffuse ISM (in PDF)

• 3. Dust (in PDF)

• 4. Ionization (in PDF)

• 5. Thermal Equilibrium (in PDF)

• 6. Emitted Spectrum (in PDF)

• 7. Emission-Line Diagnostics (in PDF)

• 8. Photoionization Models (in PDF)

• 9. Gas Dynamics (in PDF)

• 10. H II Regions (in PDF)

• 11. Planetary Nebulae (in PDF)

• 12. Novae (in PDF)

• 13. Supernovae (in PDF)

• 14. Introduction to AGN (in PDF)

Course Homework, Midterm, Project, Final

• Homework Set 1 (in PDF)

• Homework Set 1 Answers (in PDF)

• Homework Set 2 (in PDF)

• Homework Set 2 Answers (in PDF)

• Homework Set 3 (in PDF)

• Homework Set 3 Answers (in PDF)

• Midterm (in PDF)

• Midterm Answers (in PDF)

• Planetary Nebula Project (in PDF)

• Emission Lines in Seyferts (in PDF)

• IDL Analysis (in PDF)

• Running Cloudy (in PDF)

• Revalski Tutorial on CLOUDY (in PDF)

Useful web sites, etc.:

• Cloudy Web Page

• Atomic Line List

• Textbooks

• Grotrian Diagrams

• Error Propagation(in PDF)