Dynamics of galaxies
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Edition: | 2nd, 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Scales
- Observational windows
- Classifications
- Photometry, kinematics, and dark matter
- Basic questions, semiempirical approach, and the dynamical window
- Physical models
- Self-gravity and relation to plasma physics
- Relaxation times, absense of thermodynamical equilibrium
- Models
- Basic phenomenology
- Equilibrium and stability : symmetry and symmetry breaking
- Classical ellipsoids
- Introduction to dispersive waves
- Jeans instability
- Spiral galaxies
- Orbits
- The basic state : vertical and horizontal equilibrium of the disk
- Density waves
- Roles of gas
- Global spiral modes
- Spiral structure in galaxies
- Bending waves
- Dark matter in spiral galaxies
- Elliptical galaxies
- Orbits
- Stellar dynamical models
- Stability
- Dark matter in elliptical galaxies
- In perspective
- Selected aspects of formation and evolution
- Galaxies and gravitational lensing
- Self-gravitating accretion disks.
Galaxies