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Galaxies
  • Chapter 13:
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Galaxy Classification
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Gas and Dust in Galaxies
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Barred Spirals
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Irregular Galaxies
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Distance Measurements to Other Galaxies (I)
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Cepheid Distance Measurement
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The Most Distant Galaxies
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Distance Measurements to Other Galaxies (II): The Hubble Law
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The Extragalactic Distance Scale
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Galaxy Sizes and Luminosities
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Rotation Curves of Galaxies
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Determining the Masses of Galaxies
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Supermassive Black Holes
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Dark Matter
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Clusters of Galaxies
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Hot Gas in Clusters of Galaxies
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Gravitational Lensing
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Our Galaxy Cluster:
The Local Group
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Starburst Galaxies
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Interacting Galaxies
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Tidal Tails
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Simulations of Galaxy Interactions
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Galactic Interaction Simulations
  • Joshua Barnes: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/barnes/transform.html
  • John Dubinksi:
  • http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/nbody/
  • Chris Mihos:
  • http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/models/models.html
  • Bob Berrington (Wyoming):
  • http://physics.uwyo.edu/~rberring/
  • There are others…
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What this might look like
  • Movie simulation of galaxy formation via assembly of small pieces (courtesy of Space Telescope Science Institute):
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Mergers of Galaxies
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The Furthest Galaxies