Milky Way Galaxy

B&M = Binney & Merrifield
B&Tr = Binney & Tremaine
MBW = Mo, van den Bosch, White

  • Gross Properties
  • Radial distribution of HI and CO
  • Stellar kinematics
  • Galaxy models
  • Galaxy models

  • B&M Sec 10.1 p.609-624
  • B&M Sec 9.2.4 p.559-570
  • B&M Sec 10.3 p.625-637
  • B&M Sec 10.6 p.678-679
  • Klypin etal. ApJ, 2002,573.p597
Methods and techniques

  • Dynamical time
  • Jeans equation and virial theorem
  • Two-body relaxation
  • Dynamical friction

  • B&Tr Sec 2.2.2 p.63-64
  • B&Tr Sec 4.8 p.347-364
  • B&Tr Sec 7.1 p.554-559
  • B&Tr Sec 8.1 p.643-651
Spiral galaxies: Rotation

  • Methods, definitions, general trends


  • B&M Sec 8.2 p.488-513
Spiral galaxies: photometry

  • Trends and Bulge/Disk decomposition

  • B&M Sec 4.4.2 p.212-228
Elliptical galaxies


  • B&M Sec 4.3.1 p.185-193, 199-210
  • B&M Sec. 4.3.3-4 p.194-210
Local Group of Galaxies


  • MBW, Sec 2.5.2 p. 71-73
  • B&M, Sec. 4.1.4 p.169-172
Luminosity function


  • MBW, Sec. 2.4, p.61-67
  • B&M, Sec. 4.1.3 p.162-169
Correlation Function


  • MBW, Sec. 2.7.1 p.82-83
  • MBW, Sec. 6.5 p.283-287

Clusters of Galaxies


  • MBW, Sec. 2.5, p.67-71
  • Kravtsov, Borgani, 2012. ARA&A 50,353