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This book is intended to be a course about the creation and evolution of the universe at large, including the basic macroscopic building blocks (galaxies) and the overall large-scale structure. This text covers a broad range of topics for a graduate-level class in a physics department where students...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Webb, J. R. (James R.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Astrophysics.
Galaxies.
Galaxies and Stars.
SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Stellar structure
  • 1.2. Equations of stellar structure
  • 1.3. Our Sun
  • 1.4. Stellar atmospheres
  • 1.5. Stellar evolution
  • 1.6. Galaxies
  • 2. The Milky Way Galaxy
  • 2.1. Coordinate systems, parallax and radial velocities
  • 2.2. The equatorial coordinate system
  • 2.3. Rotational transformations
  • 2.4. Stellar motions
  • 2.5. Measuring stellar parallaxes
  • 2.6. Hipparcos results
  • 2.7. Time in astronomy
  • 2.8. Inertial reference frames
  • 2.9. Galactic structure
  • 2.10. The interstellar medium
  • 2.11. Star counts
  • 2.12. Initial stellar mass function
  • 2.13. Stellar kinematics
  • 2.14. Mass of the Galaxy
  • 2.15. Milky Way formation
  • 3. External galaxies
  • 3.1. History
  • 3.2. Elliptical galaxies
  • 3.3. Spiral galaxies
  • 3.4. The Tully-Fisher relationship for spiral galaxies
  • 3.5. Spiral structures through stochastic star formation
  • 3.6. The cosmic distance ladder
  • 3.7. Dark matter
  • 4. Active galaxies, quasars and supermassive black holes
  • 4.1. Active galaxies
  • 4.2. Classifications of active galaxies
  • 4.3. Discovery and history of quasars
  • 4.4. Synchrotron emission
  • 4.5. Accreting black holes
  • 4.6. Jet acceleration
  • 4.7. Synchrotron-self-Compton jets
  • 4.8. Unified model of quasars
  • 4.9. Quasar variability
  • 5. General relativity and cosmology
  • 5.1. A brief history of cosmology
  • 5.2. Newtonian derivation of the cosmological equations
  • 5.3. General relativistic derivation of cosmology
  • 5.4. Big Bang cosmology
  • 5.5. Confirmation of the Big Bang
  • 5.6. Problems with the Big Bang theory
  • 5.7. The future evolution of the accelerating Universe
  • 5.8. Finding mass in the Universe
  • 5.9. WMAP results
  • 5.10. Age of the Universe
  • 5.11. Gravitational waves.

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