QUASAR ABSORPTION LINES
Volume 2 Exercises
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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.
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.
Problem Sets by Chapter
PART 4. IONS AND PHOTONS IN THE COSMOS
Chapter 20 Hydrogen and Hydrogenic Ions
Chapter 21 Transitions of Hydrogenic Ions
Chapter 22 Multi-Electron Ions and Transitions
Chapter 23 Atomic Properties and Spectra
Chapter 24 The Lambda-CDM Cosmological Paradigm
Chapter 25 Applied Cosmology
Chapter 26 Cosmological Radiative Transfer
PART 5. ANALYZING QUASAR SPECTRA
Chapter 27 Spectrographs and Spectra
Chapter 28 Absorption Lines and Ionization Breaks
Chapter 29 Absorption Line Analysis
Chapter 30 Profile Fitting and Column Densities
Chapter 31 Absorption Line Surveys
Chapter 32 Absorber Population Statistics
PART 6. MODELING ABSORBERS
Chapter 33 Macro Properties of Astrophysical Gas
Chapter 34 The Microphysics of Ionized Gas
Chapter 35 Introduction to Ionization Modeling
Chapter 36 Modeling Absorbers
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