Advanced Galaxies: AST616
1 Syllabus  
2 Introduction: Main events in the evolution of the Universe  
3 Rotation of Spiral galaxies  
4 Surface Brightness of Spiral galaxies  
5 Barred galaxies  
6 Elliptical galaxies  
7 Milky Way galaxy  
8 Local Group  
9 Galaxy Luminosity function  
9 Evolution of Galaxy Luminosity function  
10 Large-scale distribution of galaxies  
11 Clustering of galaxies: power spectrum and correlation function  
13 Mid term Exam  
14 Kinematics of particles.Elements of cosmology: Friedmann Equation  
15 FRW metric. Horizon. Distances.  
16 Elements of cosmology: Friedmann Equation  
17 Growth of perturbations: Modes, waves longer than horizon.  
18 Linear Growth of perturbations I: waves shorter than horizon.  
19 Linear Growth of perturbations II  
20 Transfer Functions  
21 Halo Mass Function  
22 Zeldovich Approximation  
23 Halo properties  
25 Galaxy formation.  
26 Galaxies at high z I  
27 Galaxies at high z II  
28 Galaxies at high z III  
29 COSMOparticle: Linear growth of fluctuations  
30 COSMOparticle: Non Linear growth. Biases. Distortions.  
31 COSMOparticle: connecting DM and light.  
32 COSMOparticle: halo abundances. Overabundance problems..  
33 COSMOparticle:Properties of DM halos: structure and evolution.  
XXX Review  

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