Department of Physics

18304 Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS322

Course Content

• Introduction: Stars, galaxies.
• Galaxy morphology: Photometry, connection between morphological and dynamical phenomena.
• Mapping the Galaxy: Dynamics of stars, gas and dust, rotation of the Galaxy, dark matter, rotation curves.
• Potential theory: Spherical systems, flattened systems.
• Galactic systems: Groups, clusters, dark matter in clusters, gravitational lenses.
• Distribution of Galaxies in the Universe: Large scale distribution, observations of primordial galaxies, formation and evolution of galactic structures.
• Evolution of galaxies: Gas accretion, bars, supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, pseudo-bulges.