Galaxies and Cosmology

by Francoise Combes; Patrick Boisse; Alain Mazure; Alain Blanchard

• ISBN13: 9783540589334
• ISBN10: 3540589333
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2019-06-12
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Unique in its breadth of coverage and level of presentation, this textbook provides more on the nature of galaxies, extragalactic objects, the large-scale structure of the Universe, and cosmology than is available in general textbooks on astronomy. It remains, however, accessible to advanced undergraduate students. One or more chapters are devoted to each of the following: the classification and morphology of galaxies; the galactic interstellar medium; galactic kinematics; elliptical, spiral, and barred spiral galaxies; the interactions between galaxies; extragalactic radio sources, quasars and their line spectra, and other active galactic nuclei; the formation of galaxies; the Universe as a whole; and cosmology.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	p. 1
The Classification and Morphology of Galaxies	p. 5
The Galactic Interstellar Medium	p. 29
The Kinematics and Masses of Galaxies	p. 63
Elliptical Galaxies	p. 83
The Spiral Structure of Galaxies	p. 101
Barred Galaxies	p. 137
Interactions between Galaxies	p. 167
Extragalactic Radio Sources	p. 207
Quasars and Other Active Nuclei	p. 239
The Absorption-Line Systems of Quasars	p. 269
The Universe on a Large Scale	p. 293
The Formation of Galaxies and Large Structures in the Universe	p. 333
Cosmology	p. 357
List of Constants, Notation, and Units Used	p. 397
Index	p. 399
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