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Title Dynamics of galaxies / Giuseppe Bertin (Università Degli Studi di Milano).
Author Bertin, G. (Giuseppe), author.
Edition Second edition.
Publisher New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
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Description xvi, 468 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN 9781107000544 hardback
1107000548 hardback
Note Previous edition: 2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Basic phenomenology -- Scales -- Observational windows -- Classifications -- Photometry, kinematics, and dark matter -- Basic questions, semiempirical approach, and the dynamical window -- Physical models -- Self-gravity and relation to plasma physics -- Relaxation times, absense of thermodynamical equilibrium -- Models -- Equilibrium and stability : symmetry and symmetry breaking -- Classical ellipsoids -- Introduction to dispersive waves -- Jeans instability -- Spiral galaxies -- Orbits -- The basic state : vertical and horizontal equilibrium of the disk -- Density waves -- Roles of gas -- Global spiral modes -- Spiral structure in galaxies -- Bending waves -- Dark matter in spiral galaxies -- Elliptical galaxies -- Orbits -- Stellar dynamical models -- Stability -- Dark matter in elliptical galaxies -- In perspective -- Selected aspects of formation and evolution -- Galaxies and gravitational lensing -- Self-gravitating accretion disks.
Library Class Astronomy H153
Subject Galaxies.

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