QUASAR ABSORPTION LINES
Review Questions and Problem Sets
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Welcome to the Problem Page. Each chapter has a set of Review Questions and a Problem Set. They can be accessed via links on this page (scroll down) or via the "Exercises" drag-down menu.
A Note to Students/Learners
The review questions are qualitative in nature. They are designed to be "high level" to direct your focus on the key concepts in the chapters and to challenge you to sussinctly explain these concepts in your own words. The problem sets range from short derivations and calculations to practical data analysis challenges.
A Note to Instructors
The Review Questions serve as a good first-order set of learning objectives. These questions may facilitate building traditional instructor lectures, developing flipped classroom plans, and/or organizing in-class think-share-pair activities.
Volume 1 Review Questions and Problem Sets by Chapter
Volume 1 chronicles six decades of quasar spectroscopy. The book details the nature of the Ly-alpha forest, Lyman limit systems, damped Ly-alpha absorbers, deuterium (D/H), 21-cm absorbers, HI and HeII Reionization, the WHIM, and the multiple ionization phases of metal line absorbers. Galaxies and their connections to these absorbers are treated in depth, as are the taxonomy and classes of AGN/quasar spectra and their associated absorption lines.
Volume 2 Review Questions and Problem Sets by Chapter
Volume 2 treats the theory and analysis of absorption lines, including the physics of atomic transitions, gas and ionization physics, the cosmological model, radiative transfer, spectrograph design, analysis of spectra, and multi-component, multiphase chemical-ionization modeling. Pragmatic approaches to conducting and assessing absorber counts in large absorption line surveys is presented. Throughout, objective analysis methods are emphasized and presented for clarity of practical application.
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