Andrew R. Zentner
Andrew R. Zentner
Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
Astronomy 2580
Textbooks: Galactic Astronomy by Binney & Merrifield and Galactic Dynamics by Binney & Tremaine
Topics
Introduction & Overview
Overview of the Properties of Stars
Galaxy Morphologies & Scaling Relations
Gravitational Dynamics
Equilibria of Collisionless Systems
Stellar Populations
An Introduction to Cosmology
The Cosmic Distance Scale
Galactic Interstellar Media
Galactic Evolution & Environments
An Introduction to Galaxy Clustering Statistics
Dark Matter in Galaxies
The Growth of Cosmological Structure
Nonlinear Cosmological Structure Growth
Dark Matter Halos and the Halo Model of Clustering
Interpreting Observed Clustering Using the Halo Model