Andrew R. Zentner

 
 

Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy


 

Astronomy 2580

  1. Bullet Textbooks:  Galactic Astronomy by Binney & Merrifield and Galactic Dynamics by Binney & Tremaine

  2. Bullet Syllabus

 

Topics


  1. Bullet Introduction & Overview

  2. Bullet Overview of the Properties of Stars

  3. Bullet Galaxy Morphologies & Scaling Relations

  4. Bullet Gravitational Dynamics

  5. Bullet Equilibria of Collisionless Systems

  6. Bullet Stellar Populations

  7. Bullet An Introduction to Cosmology

  8. Bullet The Cosmic Distance Scale

  9. Bullet Galactic Interstellar Media

  10. Bullet Galactic Evolution & Environments

  11. Bullet An Introduction to Galaxy Clustering Statistics

  12. Bullet Dark Matter in Galaxies

  13. Bullet The Growth of Cosmological Structure

  14. Bullet Nonlinear Cosmological Structure Growth

  15. Bullet Dark Matter Halos and the Halo Model of Clustering

  16. Bullet Interpreting Observed Clustering Using the Halo Model