Welcome to the webpage of the Galaxies course



News:

Generalities concerning the course

Program/Syllabus of the course

Link to the "werkcolleges"

  • On March 27, we will meet in room 291, to work on a set of computer exercises on rotation curves of galaxies. Have a look here
  • Some explanations of the 3rd assignment can be found here
  • Examples of past exams: 2004 , 2005 (I) , and 2005 (II) , 2006 (I) and 2006 (II)
  • The final exam will take place on Wednesday April 25 at 9 am, in room 161.


    Lecture notes

    Morphological classification of galaxies

    Stellar populations and hand-written notes on Luminosity evolution

    Cosmic distance scale

    The structure of the Milky Way

    The kinematics of stars in the Milky Way and the distribution and kinematics of its gas

    Introduction to Galactic Dynamics: Motion under gravity, important timescales in dynamics, and the orbits of disk stars

    Chemical evolution

    Disk galaxies

    Elliptical galaxies

    Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)