Astronomy 490, Spring 2007
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Course Information
Reading Topic Areas
Description of Assignments
Guidelines for Oral Presentations
First-day questionnaire
Colloquium assignment
Readings and Homeworks
Date listed is date on which homework is due and paper(s) will be discussed
Feb 05
( HW1
|Brown et al. 2005
| Basri and Brown 2006 )
Feb 12
( HW2
|Remillard et al. 1992 )
Feb 19
( HW3
|Weaver et al. 2006
|Chiang et al. 2007 )
Feb 26
( HW4
| Basri and Brown 2006
|"The Inside Story of Pluto's Demotion" Gingerich 2006
|"Pluto Doesn't Care" Tresch-Fienberg 2006 )
Mar 5, 12
( HW5
|Ghez et al. 2005 )
Mar 19, 26
( HW6
|Riess 2000 )
Apr 2
( HW7
|Perlmutter et al. 1999
|Perlmutter 2003 )
Apr 16 (note change to original assignment!)
( HW8
|Perlmutter et al. 1999
|Carroll 2005
|Nadis 2005
|Naeye 2006 )
Apr 23
( HW9
|Taylor 2006 )
Apr 30
( HW10 (note change to journal article!)
|Faulkner et al. 2005
|Winn 1999 )
May 7
( HW11
|Luhman et al. 2007
|Waller 2003
|Basri 2005
|Kaler 2000 )
Resources for finding journal articles
Search engines
( ADS abstracts
|astro-ph preprints )
Professional Journals (U.S.)
( ApJ
|ApJ Letters rapid release
|AJ
|PASP
|PRD )
Professional Journals (Europe)
( A&A
|MNRAS )
Review journals
( ARAA)
|AREPS)
Yet more journals (incomplete access through SFSU)
( Nature)
|Science)
Resources for finding popular science articles
( Scientific American
|Physics Today
|Sky and Telescope Magazine )