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ASTRONOMY 386C
Properties of Galaxies
Spring 2002     Unique No. 45655 | TTH 12:30-2:00 | RLM 15.216B


INSTRUCTOR
John Kormendy
Office: RLM 15.324,
Phone: 471-8191
Office hours: TBA
kormendy@astro.as.utexas.edu
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Syllabus (pdf format)

Note: This is a draft syllabus based on my previous Galaxies course. Most (but probably not all) of the material is likely to be covered. I will be bringing the course content more up to date.

SYLLABUS

Unit 1. Morphology
Unit 2. Luminosity Functions
Unit 3. Ellipsoids: Bulges, Elliptical Galaxies, and Globular Clusters
Unit 4. Disk Galaxies
Unit 5. Stellar Populations in Galaxies
Unit 6. Dwarf Galaxies
Unit 7. Dark Matter
Unit 8. Galaxy Formation
Unit 9. Active Galactic Nuclei



 
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