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2020 / 2021Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Normal Galaxies and the Milky Way

GRS AS 753

Credits:
4
Graduate Prerequisites:
GRS AS 701 ; GRS AS 710 ; GRS AS 712 ; GRS AS 725 ; GRS AS 726.

Normal galaxies and the Milky Way as systems. Stellar components and clusters, elliptical and disk galaxies. Luminosity functions, radial distributions, distance indicators, triaxial spheroids, and central bars. Motions near the sun, asymmetric drift, velocity ellipsoid, galactic rotation, Oort formulae, gas distributions, galactic center.

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