Normal Galaxies and the Milky Way

Graduate Prerequisites: CAS AS 701, CAS AS 704, CAS AS 706, and CAS AS 708, or consent of instructor. - Normal galaxies and the Milky Way as systems. Stellar components and clusters, elliptical and disk galaxies. Luminosity functions, radial distributions, distance indicators, triaxial spheroids, and central bars. Motions near the sun, asymmetric drift, velocity ellipsoid, galactic rotation, Oort formulae, gas distributions, galactic center.