School of Science
Department of Physics
18304
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.