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Galaxies and cosmology

By Alain Blanchard , Francoise Combes , Patrick Boisse , Alain Mazure , M. Seymour

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1998
ISBN
9783540589334, 3540589333
LCC
QB857 .G3913 1995
Open Library ID
OL799032M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6543465 bytes)
Series
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
Pages
447\447
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2010-07-29 05:14:56

Description

Unique in its breadth of coverage and level of presentation, this 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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