Course | ASTR-650 |
Course Title | GALACTIC STRUCTURE & EVOL |
Section | 01 |
Schedule # | 20367 |
Units | 3.0 |
Session | SPRING CAMPUS |
Seats | 13/25 |
Meetings | |
Full Title | Galactic Structure and Evolution |
Description | Stellar and gaseous structures of the Milky Way and external galaxies. Properties to include chemical evolution, color distributions, luminosity functions, mass-to-light ratios, scaling relations, and surface brightness profiles. Dark matter halos, gravitational collapse models, and hierarchical structure formation. Contents and physical state of interstellar and circumgalactic media. |
Prerequisite | Astronomy 680. |
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