AST4001 - Extragalactic Astronomy

Material for the AST4001 course at the University of Porto.

This repository contains:

• Slipshow presentation and reproducible plots for a presentation on how spinning supermassive black holes affect active galactic nuclei.

Build plots

The raw SDSS catalogue used by the current plots is included under data/. Presentation artwork is included under presentation/images/.

python3 scripts/build_sdss_efficiency_plot.py
python3 scripts/build_fe_k_plots.py
python3 scripts/build_spin_intuition_animation.py

The catalogue scripts are cache-aware for their remote inputs: they only download a catalogue if the corresponding raw/processed file is missing. The spin-intuition script generates a local animated SVG presentation asset.

Build the presentation

With slipshow available:

slipshow compile presentation/README.md

The source deck is presentation/README.md. Bibliographic entries are tracked in presentation/references.bib.