'Red clump' presentation slideshows

The Galactic Bulge

The Galactic Bulge. R. Michael Rich (UCLA) , Christian Howard, David Reitzel, (UCLA), Andreas Koch (Leicester), HongSheng Zhao (St. Andrews), Roberto de Propris (CTIO), Andy McWilliam (Carnegie), Jon Fulbright(JHU), Livia Origlia (Bologna) Annie Robin (Besancon). Support: NSF AST-0709479.

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The Galactic Bulge

The Galactic Bulge. R. Michael Rich (UCLA) , Christian Howard, David Reitzel, (UCLA), Andreas Koch (Leicester), HongSheng Zhao (St. Andrews), Roberto de Propris (CTIO), Andy McWilliam (Carnegie), Jon Fulbright(JHU), Livia Origlia (Bologna) Annie Robin (Besancon). Support: NSF AST-0709479.

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Asymptotic Giant Branch

Asymptotic Giant Branch. Learning outcomes. Evolution and internal structure of low mass stars from the core He burning phase to the tip of the AGB Nucleosynthesis and dredge up on the AGB Basic understanding of variability as observed on the AGB. Pagel, 1997. RGB phase. Pagel, 1997.

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Dynamical signatures of mergers

Dynamical signatures of mergers. Amina Helmi. Dynamical signatures of mergers. In collaboration with @Groningen: Facundo Gomez , Maarten Breddels, Laura Sales, Yang-Shyang Li elsewhere: Andrew Cooper, Michelle Wilson , Alvaro Villalobos, Simon White, Anthony Brown, Heather Morrison.

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Testing dark matter with Gaia

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Modern cosmology 1: The Hubble Constant

Modern cosmology 1: The Hubble Constant. Extragalactic distance measurements Classical Cepheid calibration HST Key Project results Independent measurements. Measuring H 0. From measurements in 1970s and 80s safe to assume that 40 < H 0 < 100 km/s/Mpc

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