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Author Bertin, G. (Giuseppe), author.
Title Dynamics of galaxies / Giuseppe Bertin, Università Degli Studi di Milano.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Edition Second edition.



Descript 1 online resource (xvi, 468 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Edition Second edition.
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents Basic phenomenology -- 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 -- 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780511731990 (ebook)
9781107000544 (hardback)
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Author Bertin, G. (Giuseppe), author.
Subject Galaxies.
Descript 1 online resource (xvi, 468 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Edition Second edition.
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents Basic phenomenology -- 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 -- 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780511731990 (ebook)
9781107000544 (hardback)
Author Bertin, G. (Giuseppe), author.
Subject Galaxies.

Subject Galaxies.
Descript 1 online resource (xvi, 468 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents Basic phenomenology -- 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 -- 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780511731990 (ebook)
9781107000544 (hardback)

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