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Galaxies
  • (From Seeds Ch. 12-14)
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The Milky Way
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First Studies of the Galaxy
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Strategies to explore the structure of our Milky Way
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Determining the Structure of the Milky Way
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Measuring Distances:
The Cepheid Method
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The Cepheid Method
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Exploring the Galaxy Using Clusters of Stars
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Globular Clusters
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Locating the Center of the Milky Way
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The Structure of the Milky Way
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Infrared View of the Milky Way
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Orbital Motions in the Milky Way (I)
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Orbital Motions in the Milky Way (II)
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Mass determination from orbital velocity:
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The Mass of the Milky Way
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The Mass of the Milky Way (II)
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The History of the Milky Way
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Modifications of the Traditional Theory
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Exploring the structure of the Milky Way with O/B Associations
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Radio Observations
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The Structure of the Milky Way Revealed
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Star Formation in Spiral Arms (I)
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Star Formation in Spiral Arms (II)
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Self-Sustained Star Formation in Spiral Arms
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Grand-Design Spiral Galaxies
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The Whirlpool Galaxy
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The Galactic Center (I)
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Radio View of the Galactic Center
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Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
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X-Ray View of the Galactic Center
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Distance Measurements to Other Galaxies (I)
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Cepheid Distance Measurement
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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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Mergers of Galaxies
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Active Galaxies
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Line Spectra of Galaxies
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Seyfert Galaxies
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Interacting Galaxies
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Cosmic Jets and Radio Lobes
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Radio Galaxies
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Radio Galaxies (II)
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Formation of Radio Jets
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The Jets of M87
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The Dust Torus in NGC4261
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Model for Seyfert Galaxies
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Other Types of AGN and
AGN Unification
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The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes
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Quasars
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The Spectra of Quasars
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Quasar Red Shifts
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Studying Quasars
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Probing Dark Matter with High-z Quasars:
Gravitational Lensing
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Gravitational Lensing of Quasars
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Gallery of Quasar Host Galaxies