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Chapter Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 The stars
- 1.2 Our Milky Way
- 1.3 Other Galaxies
- 1.4 Galaxies in the expanding universe
- 1.5 The pregalactic era: a brief history of matter
- MAPPING OUR MILKY WAY
- 2.1 The solar neighborhood
- 2.2 The stars in the Galaxy
- 2.3 Galactic rotation
- THE ORBITS OF THE STARS
- 3.1 Motion under gravity
- 3.2. Why the Galaxy isn't bumpy: two-body relaxation
- 3.3. Orbits of disk stars: epicycles
- 3.4 The collisionless Boltzmann equation
- OUR BACKYARD: THE LOCAL GROUP
- 4.1 Satellites of the Milky Way
- 4.2 Spirals of the Local Group
- 4.3 How did the Local Group galaxies form?
- 4.4 Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group
- 4.5 Past and future of the Local Group
- SPIRAL AND S0 GALAXIES
- 5.1 The distribution of starlight
- 5.2 Observing the gas
- 5.3 Gas motions and the masses of disk galaxies
- 5.4 Spiral arms and galactic bars
- 5.5 Bulges and centers of disk galaxies
- 5.6 Groups: the homes of disk galaxies
- ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES
- 6.1 Photometry
- 6.2 Motions of the stars
- 6.3 Stellar populations and gas
- 6.4 Dark matter and black holes
- 6.5 Galaxy clusters: the domain of elliptical galaxies
- LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES
- 7.1 Observations of large-scale structure
- 7.2 Expansion of a homogeneous Universe
- 7.3 Growth of structure: peculiar motions
- 7.4 Growth of structure: clusters, walls, and voids
- ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF GALAXIES
- 8.1 Active galactic nuclei
- 8.2 Quasar absorption lines
- 8.3 The first galaxies
- APPENDIX
- A. Units and conversions
- B. Bibliography
- C. Hints for problems
- Index