Astronomy: Galaxies and Cosmology

Contents of the course on Galaxies and Cosmology

W. Seggewiss, Sternwarte Bonn and

P.L. Biermann, MPIfR Bonn

(A course in the Wintersemester)

The class deals with the basic topics of galaxies, their evolution and cosmology.
Specific topics covered are:

• Star clusters: touchstones of stellar populations
• Star clusters: theory
• Galaxy: structure and kinematics of stars and gas
• Galaxy: nucleus, physical processes
• Galaxies: (nearly) normal galaxies
• Galaxies: origin and evolution
• Galaxies : from the Local Group to supercluster complexes
• Galaxies: evolution of groups and clusters
• AGN (active galactic nuclei): Seyfert galaxies and the emission line spectra
• AGN: radio galaxies
• AGN: quasares and the absorption line spectra
• AGN: physics of compact nuclei
• Cosmology: dark matter in the Universe
• Cosmology: standard models
• Cosmology: the inflationary Universe

Literature
Literature will be given and distributed during the course.
There is a write-up in English!

Tel. +49-228-735655/733655   or   Hoher List: 06592-2510
e-mail:   seggewis@astro.uni-bonn.de

Tel. +49-228-525 279      (Fax. +49-228-525 229)
e-mail:   pbiermann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

You may refer back to:   Sternwarte Bonn and Astronomische Institute der Univ. Bonn,  
Max-Plack-Institut für Radioastronomie and the Group Theory of P.L. Biermann at the MPIfR;
Fachgruppe Physik-Astronomie,  

Other BIPP courses: Stars and Stellar Evolution, W. Seggewiss and K.S. de Boer;
Interstellar Medium, K.S. de Boer and U. Mebold