Milky Way Galaxy
Review of basic properties of MW.
Spiral Galaxies
Rotation. Surface brightness. Barred galaxies
Local Group
What is the Local Group.
Different morphological types of galaxies in the LG. Properties of dwarf irregular and dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
Elliptical Galaxies
Shapes. Surface brightness.
Clusters of Galaxies
Sizes. Galaxy content. Velocities. X-ray properties.
Luminosity Function of galaxies
Shape. Abundances of galaxies of different types. Methods of estimation.
Large-Scale structure of the Universe.
Examples of distributions of galaxies in space. Place of our Milky Way and Local Group in LSS. Voids. Superclusters. Filaments. Clustering statistics: correlation functions and power spectra. Dark matter: cosmic web.
Galaxies at high redshifts
Evolution of galaxy properties. Evolution of the luminosity function. Clumpy disks at high Z.
Cosmology
Main events in the history of the Universe. Friedmann law: expansion of the Universe.
Linear growth of fluctuations
Different modes and different regimes of the linear growth.
Transfer functions.
Power spectrum and correlation function.
Statistics of fluctuations.
Nonlinear evolution of fluctuations.
Spherical collapse model.
Zeldovich approximation.
Halo mass function.
Properties of dark matter halos.
Redshift distortions.
Galaxy clustering.
Comparison with observations.