- Course Information and syllabus
(handout at first class)
- Homework 1, due Thursday, September 21.
- Solutions to Homework 1.
- Homework 2, due Friday, September
29.
- Homework 3, due Friday, October 6.
- Solutions to Homework 3.
- Homework 4, due Friday, October
13.
This homework depends on a variety of data files, including:
- Data on the radio-loud fraction of quasars, from a paper by Jiang et al.
- Spectrum of an A05 star, from Pickles (1998).
- The
SDSS filter curves.
- Solutions to Homework 4.
- Homework 5, due Friday, October
20.
- Homework 6, due Friday, November
10.
- Solutions to Homework 6.
- Homework 7, due Friday, December 1.
- Solutions to Homework 7,
(Problem 1 only for the moment).
- Homework 8, due Friday, January 19.
- Suggested topics for the final
presentation, to be given during the reading period.
- Why isn't every physicist a
Bayesian? (Cousins 1995, American Journal of Physics, 63, 5), a
paper distributed in class on October 12.
- Useful astronomical
links. These are from AST 203, and so tend to the elementary...
- A brief introduction to Unix at
Princeton, by Robert Lupton and Jill Knapp.
- An introduction to X windows,, by Robert Lupton.
- Useful
IDL documentation from Carl Heiles at Berkeley.
- Guide
to IDL for Astronomers, by Robert O'Connell at Virginia. Here
are more links from O'Connell.
Professors: Michael Strauss and David Spergel