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	- Course schedules - 622: Interstellar medium - 623: Interiors & evolution - 626: Galaxies - 627: Cosmology - 630: Solar system - 631: Radiative transfer - 633: Techniques - 635: Astrophysics - 640: General relativity - 641: Active galaxies - 657: Astrochemistry - 699: Directed research - 700: MS thesis - 73x: Seminars - 740: Astrobiology - 777: Star formation - 800: PhD dissertation

Modified by JEB on May 03, 2007

Astronomy 626: Galaxies

Galaxies: introduction, morphology and classification, elliptical galaxies, disk galaxies, Milky Way, chemical evolution, photometric evolution
Mechanics: gravitational potentials, orbits, stellar dynamical systems, collisionless N-Body methods
Spheroids: Jeans theorem, dispersion, mass profiles, rotation and velocity anisotropies, axisymmetric and triaxial models

Disks: kinematics of solar neighborhood, local stability, spiral structure, bar instability, warped disks
Halos: giant galaxies, dwarf galaxies
Transformations: tidal interactions, orbit decay, violent relaxation
Dense Stellar Systems: globular clusters, galactic nuclei

This outline is representative only, and is likely to change from instructor to instructor and from year to year.

Recent instructors

Len Cowie — 2007
Joshua Barnes — 2005 [notes], 2003, 2001 [notes]
Ken Chambers — 2003 [notes]