Galaxies and Cosmology

Galaxies and Cosmology
ISBN-10
3540419276
ISBN-13
9783540419273
Category
Science
Pages
444
Language
English
Published
2004-08-11
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Francoise Combes, Alain Mazure, Alain Blanchard

Description

Unique in its breadth of coverage and level of presentation, this revised textbook provides more on the nature of galaxies, extragalactic objects, the large-scale structure of the Universe, and cosmology than is available in general textbooks on astronomy. It remains, however, accessible to advanced undergraduate students. One or more chapters are devoted to each of the following: the classification and morphology of galaxies; the galactic interstellar medium; galactic kinematics; elliptical, spiral, and barred spiral galaxies; the interactions between galaxies; extragalactic radio sources, quasars and their line spectra, and other active galactic nuclei; the formation of galaxies; the Universe as a whole; and cosmology.

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