Extragalactic Astronomy UVa ASTR 5630

Spiral galaxies:

• Physical effects and mechanisms
• Milky Way galaxy
• Rotation of spiral galaxies
• Surface brightness of spiral galaxies
• Barred galaxies

Other types of galaxies: ellipticals, dwarf irregular, dwarf spheroidals:

• Local Group of galaxies
• Elliptical galaxies I
• Elliptical galaxies II

Statistics of galaxies:

• Luminosity function
• Large-scale structure
• Large-scale structure II
• Clusters of galaxies

High redshifts:

• Galaxies at high redshifts I
• Galaxies at high redshifts II

Cosmology:

• Introduction: main events in the history of the Universe. Second lecture on cosmology
• Expansion laws of the Universe: Friedmann equation
• Different fluctuations. Waves longer than horizon. Linear growth of fluctuations: waves shorter than horizon
• Power spectrum, correlation functions. Transfer functions. Spectrum of velocities.
• Dependance of power spectrum and correlation function on cosmological parameters.

Non Linear regime:

• Spherical Infall Model
• Zeldovich Approximation
• Halo mass function
• Halo properties
• Large-scale distribution of galaxies and Dark matter
• Correlation functions and Power spectra of galaxies.