Astro 154 = Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy, Winter 1989

=================== "Intended" course outline ===================
          (but don't take the timeline too seriously)


Part I.  The Galaxy.
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Week 1  (Jan. 9, 10, 11):
	Overview.  Stellar distribution, structure.  
	Populations, kinematics, metallicity.
	Distance determinations within the Galaxy.  Catalogs.

Week 2  (Jan. 16, 17, 18):
	Stellar dynamics, models, orbits.
	Jeans thm., Liouville thm., Boltzman eq., Vlasov eq.
	Large-scale distrib. of the gas.

Week 3  (Jan. 23, 24, 25):
	Rotation properties.  Solar motion.
	Spiral density wave theory, stability, bars.
	Mass distribution in the Galaxy.

Week 4  (Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1):
	K(z), Local density, missing mass.
	Galactic Bulge, and the Halo.
	Galactic center.

Week 5  (Feb. 6, 7, 8):
	Dynamical time scales.  Star clusters and their evolution.
	Dynamical friction.  Ages of globular clusters and the disk.

Week 6  (Feb. 13, 14, 15):
	Stellar luminosity and mass functions.
	Star formation history, bimodal star formation, IMF.
	Chemical evolution of the Galaxy.


Part II.  Extragalactic Astronomy.
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Week 7  (Feb. 20, 21, 22):
	Classification, morphology, Hubble seq.  Catalogs.
	Variation of properties along the Hubble seq.
	Galaxy luminosity function.

Week 8  (Feb. 27, 28, Mar. 1):
	Manifold of galaxies, parameter correlations, scaling laws.
	Galaxy clusters.  X-ray gas.
	Large-scale distribution of matter.

Week 9  (Mar. 6,7,8):
	Elements of galaxy evolution.
	Mergers and starbursts.  IRAS galaxies.
	Active galactic nuclei.