"The Distant Universe"
F3147, Spring 2003

About these Pages

Course Documents

Lecture Notes

Problem Sheets

Asignment

The Morphological Evolution of Galaxies

• "Morphological Studies of the Galaxy Populations in Distant 'Butcher-Oemler' Clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope. II. AC 103, AC 118, and AC 114 at z = 0.31" Couch et al. 1998, ApJ 1998, 497, 188
• "The Evolution of the Galactic Morphological Types in Clusters" Fasano et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 542:673-683, 2000 October 20
• "Constraints on the Evolution of S0 Galaxies in Rich Clusters at Moderate Redshift Lewis et al." 2000 ApJ, 528, 118
• "A Catalog of Morphological Types in 10 Distant Rich Clusters of Galaxies 1" Smail et al. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES, 110:213225, 1997 June
• "Evolution since Z = 0.5 of the Morphology-Density Relation for Clusters of Galaxies" Dressler et al. 1997ApJ...490..577D Alt. Link
• MORPHS's Home Page - UK Mirror
• "THE EFFECT OF THE CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT ON GALAXIES" Whitmore B.C. Project
• Simon Driver et al.'s Analysis of HDF galaxies

Formula Sheets

Links

• Seb Oliver's Distant Universe WWW page
• Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
• Cosmology links
• High Redshift Supernova Search
• High-z Supernova Search
• The Expansion Rate and Size of the Universe: Magnificient Cosmos: March 1998
• 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
• 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• The MPA Cosmology Homepage
• Lyman alpha systems and cosmology
• Expanding Universe
• Chandra X-ray Survey of the Hubble Deep Field North and its Vicinity

The Exam

The exam is on Wednesday 28th May 2003 at 14:00 and will be one and a half hours in which you should attempt two out of three questions

Questions could take a number of different forms

1. "Written"
e.g. short notes, notes or short essays. The mark allocation should give you an indication of how much material is expected on questions such as these. Notes could be written as a sequence of points, essays would be a more carefully constructed argument. Topics for these could come from anywhere in the lectured material.
2. "Book-work"
by this I mean questions which recreate an argument or show understanding of information given in the lectures, for example deriving a formulae. You would also be expected to show some physical understanding of arguments, e.g. to explain how a formulae might be used in practice.
3. "Calculations"
You would be expected to be able to perform calculations using the material from the lectures. Such calculations are likely to be very similar to problems encountered in the work sheets

Combinations of some of those ingredients may be used in a single question.

Past Papers

If you haven't already found them then you can get copies of past exam papers from The Past Exam Papers Project page.

Acknowledgments

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