ASTR 620
Galaxies

Fall 2001 MW 2:00-3:15 PM CSS 0201 Prof. Stacy McGaugh Office: CSS 1251 Phone: (301) 405-7897

Textbooks

Galactic Astronomy Binney & Merrifield Errata

Galactic Dynamics Binney & Tremaine Errata

Course News

Final Grades

Course Links

Course Outline

Course Work

Useful Reading

Suggested topics for talks and term papers.

Useful Links

NASA's ADS (Astrophysical Data System), an excellent way to search the literature.

XXX e-print archive (astro-ph). Most astronomy papers appear here first as preprints.

e-Journals: ApJ | AJ | MNRAS | A&A | PASP

Level 5, an Extragalactic Kowledgebase at NED.

Google: a good search engine.

Merging galaxy simulation created for the IMAX movie Cosmic Voyage.
Warning - this is a very large (24 Mb) MPEG movie. It may require excessive down load time.
Courtesy of Chris Mihos (CWRU).

Check out the Mihos JavaLab.
Note: most of the Applets perform better on the PCs than on the SUNs.