Lecture Slides

Lecture Slides for the Vatican Observatory Summer School 2025

• Introduction

  •  Welcome (Guy Consolmagno) 

  •  VOSS 2025 Introduction (Eiichi Egami, Roberto Maiolino & Almudena Alonso Herrero)

• •  JWST Introduction

    1.  Telscope and Observatory + Backstage View of Testing & Commissioning (Eiichi Egami); 127 MB)

    2.  Instrument - NIRCam (Eiichi Egami)

    3.  Instrument - NIRSpec (Roberto Maiolino)

    4.  Instrument - MIRI (Almudena Alonso Herrero)

  • JWST Tools Demo (Eiichi Egami, Almudena Alonso Herrero & Roberto Maiolino)

    1.  APT

    2.  ETC

• Distant Galaxies - Imaging (Eiichi Egami)

  1.  Astronomy Fundamentals

  2.  Pre-JWST Galaxy Surveys

  3.  High-z AGN & Power of JWST Slitless Spectroscopy

  4.  JWST Redshift Frontier

  5.  JWST Redshift Frontier (II)  and Cosmic Reionization

  6.  From Reionization to Cosmic Noon

  7.  Probing Deeper with Gravitationally  Lensed Galaxies

• Distant Galaxies - Spectroscopy (Roberto Maiolino)

  1.  JWST Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies (I)

  2.  JWST Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies (II)

  3.  JWST Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies (III)

  4.   JWST Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies (IV)

  5.  JWST Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies (V)

  6.  JWST Spectroscopy of High-z Galaxies (VI)

• Nearby Active Galaxies (Almudena Alonso-Herrero)

  1.   Mid-Infrared Features of Interest for Galaxies

  2.  Metal-Rich Star-Forming Galaxies

  3.  Low-Metallicity Star-Forming Galaxies

  4. Dust at the Torus and Surrounding regions of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)

  5. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in the local Universe

  6. Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies

  7. Compact Obscured Nuclei and Other Obscured Nuclei

• Galactic  (Maria Drozdovskaya)

  1.   Interstellar Clouds and Cores: Observations & Chemical Composition (I)

  2.  Interstellar Clouds and Cores: Observations & Chemnical Composition (II)

  3.  Interstellar Clouds and Cores: JWST (II)

  4. Protostars and Protostellar Disks: Observations and Chemical Composition

  5.  Protostars &  Outflows: JWST

  6.  Protoplanetary Disks: JWST

  7.  Comets: Unique Window on Solar System Formation

• Exoplanet  (Tom Greene)

  1.  Introduction to Exoplanets

  2.  Exoplanet Atmospheres and Architectures

  3.  Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy 

  4.  Exoplanet Emission Spectroscopy and Phase Curves

  5.  Studying Rocky Worlds with JWST

  6.  JWST Direct Exoplanet Imaging

  7.  Exoplanet Trend and the Future  

• Transients  (Eiichi Egami)

  1.   JWST as a Supernova Discovery Machine (I)

  2.  JWST as a Supernova Discovery Machine (II)

  3.  Non-Supernova Transients and Variables

• Road to JWST (Eiichi Egami/Tom Greene)

  1.  Eiichi Egami

  2.  Tom Greene

• Beyond JWST (Tom Greene/Eiichi Egami)

  1.  Tom Greene

  2.  Eiichi Egami

• How to write a good (JWST) proposal?

  1.  Eiichi Egami

  2.  Maria Drozdovskaya

  3.  Tom Greene

• Grain Growth and Planetary Formation

  1.  Maria Drozdovskaya & Tom Greene

• JWST's Amazing Discoveries

  1.  Proplyds with JWST (Maria Drozdovskaya)

  2.  (Tom Greene)

  3.  Caustic-Crossing Stars (Eiichi Egami)

• Faculty Research Talks

  1.  Eiichi Egami (I)

  2.  Roberto Maiolino

  3.  Almudena Alonso Hererro

  4.  Maria Drozdovskaya

  5.  Tom Greene

  6.  Eiichi Egami (II)

• Guest Lectures

  1.  "DAWN JWST Archive (DJA)" (Gabe Brammer)

  2. "Back where it all begins: the formation of the  first stars and black holes" (Raffaella Schneider)

  3.  "How to talk to the press" (Guy Consolmagno)

  4.  "Radiative Transfer Models for Star Formation and Active Galactic Nucleus Activity in the JWST Era" (Andreas Efstathiou)

  5. "Setting the Stage for Planet Formation: The Structure and Evolution of Planet-Forming Disks" (Anna Miotell)

  6.  "Understanding the Nature of Worlds outside Our Solar System" (Luis Welbanks)

• Student Talks (private link)