Astronomical distances
Prof. Alexey Rastorguev (Moscow Univ.) lecture series December 7th-18th, 2008.
Course contents
- Lecture 1 : Stellar parallax
- Lecture 2 : Moving clusters - convergent point methods
- Lecture 3 : Photometric distances
- Lecture 4 : Normal stars as "standard candles"
- Lecture 5 : Main sequence fitting - distance scale of star clusters
- Lecture 6 : Statistical parallax
- Lecture 7 : Baade-Wesselink method
- Lecture 8 : Cepheid parallaxes and the period-luminosity relation
- Lecture 9 : RR Lyrae distance scale
- Lecture 10 : Globular cluster luminosity functions
- Lecture 11 : Supernova Type Ia
- Lecture 12 : Galaxy dynamical properties - Tully-Fisher and Faber-Jackson methods
Power point files
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