Useful Readings
I will post here links to useful references as appropriate.
The purpose of this list is to give you a guide to topics
that might not be easy to find in the reserve textbooks or otherwise.
- Galaxy morpholgy (Buta 2011)
- Notes on surface brightness
profiles (Dubinski 2006)
- Review of disk galaxy
dynamics (Sellwood 2011)
- The bar instability remains
problematic (Sellwood 2016)
- Radio astronomy & the interstellar medium
- HI emission
- Molecular lines
(e.g., CO as a proxy for H2)
- Laws of Galactic Rotation (McGaugh et al. 2020)
- Mass modeling (Athanassoula)
- Fitting a model to data (Hogg, Bovy, & Lang)
- Orbits & integrals of motion
(Barnes 2005)
- Galaxy modelling using actions
& angles (McMillan 2013)
- Enclosed mass and cosmic
overdensities (McGaugh 2011)
- NFW halos (Sellwood 2010)
- A brief but thorough description of the Coma Cluster (Colless 2006)
- Gravitational Lensing (Kuijken 2003)
- The WIMP
miracle (Feng et al. 2009 - also here)
- Introduction to WIMPs (Drees 2011)