GALAXIES

Spring 2009 Astronomy 626 Wed, Fri at 14:00 — 15:15

This course discusses the properties, structure, stability, and evolution of galaxies. The goal is to interpret observations of galaxies within a consistent theoretical framework.

Class Schedule

  Date Topic Links
 
1. 01/14 Introduction notes
 
PROPERTIES
 
2. 01/21 Populations & components of the MW notes
3. 01/23 Morphology & environment notes — slides
4. 01/28 Elliptical galaxies. I notes — slides
5. 01/30 Elliptical galaxies. II notes — slides
6. 02/04 Disk galaxies. I notes — slides
7. 02/06 Disk galaxies. II notes — slides
8. 02/11 Distances notes — slides
 
DYNAMICS
 
9. 02/13 Gravitational fields notes
10. 02/18 Orbits, integrals, & chaos notes — slides
11. 02/20 Collisionless stellar dynamical systems notes
12. 02/25 Solving the CBE notes — slides
13. 02/27 Not solving the CBE notes
 
EQUILIBRIA
 
14. 03/04 Shapes and rotation of elliptical galaxies notes
15. 03/06 Dark matter in elliptical galaxies? notes — slides
16. 03/11 Dark matter in disk galaxies notes — slides
17. 03/13 Kinematics of the Solar Neighborhood notes
 
STABILITY
 
18. 03/18 Local stability of disk galaxies
19. 03/20 Theories of spiral structure slides
20. 04/01 The bar instability
21. 04/03 Warped disk galaxies
 
EVOLUTION
 
22. 04/08 Interactions & dynamical friction
23. 04/15 Mergers & starburst galaxies
24. 04/17 Spectrophotometric evolution
25. 04/22 Chemical evolution
26. 04/24 Evolution of star clusters
 
27. 04/29 Presentations. I
28. 05/01 Presentations. II
29. 05/06 Presentations. III

Course Information

Problem Sets

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Joshua E. Barnes      (barnes at ifa.hawaii.edu)
Updated: 30 March 2009
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