ASTR 406
Fall 2024 Part of Term 1
Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11
Aug 26-Dec 11
Credit: 3 hours.
Nature of the Milky Way galaxy: stellar statistics and distributions, stellar populations, spiral structure, the nucleus and halo. Nature of ordinary galaxies; galaxies in our Local Group, structure of voids and superclusters. Nature of peculiar objects: Seyfert galaxies, starburst galaxies, and quasars. Elementary aspects of physical cosmology.
3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 212, ASTR 210, and ASTR 310 (or equivalent programming experience). Recommended: PHYS 213 and PHYS 214.
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43268
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Lecture
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100
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11:00AM
-11:50AM
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MWF
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Loomis Laboratory
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French, D
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