Rolf-Peter Kudritzki

Teaching Spring Semester 2017

This page offers the manuscript of my 2017 spring semester course in PDF format.

Each chapter of the course is in a different file. The manuscript will me modfied during the course. Thus, check whether you use the actual version.

Measuring the Size of the Universe: Galaxy Distance Determinations in Astronomy

• "Description of the course"
  

• "1. Introduction"
  

• "2. Stellar Evolution"
  

• "3. Stellar Pulsation"
  

• "4. Cepheids"
  

• "5. Baade-Wesselink Method"
  

• "6. Detached Eclipsing Binaries"
  

• "7. Blue and Red Supergiant Stars"
  

• "8. Surface Brightness Fluctuations"
  

• "9. Virial Theorem Distances of Spirals and Ellipticals"
  

• "10. Megamasers"
  

• "11. General Relativity and Distances"
  

• "12. Gravitational Lensing and Time Delay Distances"
  

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Last revision: March 16, 2017