Astronomy 218 - Stellar Dynamics and Galactic Evolution

This covers many aspects of galaxies, including:

  • Fundamental properties, statistics, observations
  • Stellar populations, gas & star formation, chemical evolution, dark matter halos
  • Galaxy formation models and simulations
  • Elliptical and disk galaxies: dynamics, scaling relations etc.
  • Active galactic nuclei
  • Groups and galaxy clusters, Interactions and mergers, large scale structure, and clustering
  • The first galaxies, galaxy evolution

Past Instructors: Mariska Kriek

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