Spiral structure in galaxies /
How does it happen that billions of stars can cooperate to produce the beautiful spirals that characterize so many galaxies, including ours? This book reviews the history behind the discovery of spiral galaxies and the problems faced when trying to explain the existence of spiral structure within th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2017]
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| Series: | IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The discovery of spiral galaxies
- 2. The classification of galaxies
- 2.1. Elliptical galaxies
- 2.2. Lenticular galaxies
- 2.3. Spiral galaxies
- 2.4. The de Vaucouleurs Classification scheme
- 2.5. Spiral galaxy bulges
- 2.6. Spiral galaxy disks
- 2.7. Bars in spiral galaxies
- 2.8. Star formation in bars
- 2.9. Secular evolution
- 2.10. Spiral structure and the interplay between structures in disk galaxies
- 2.11. The rest of this book
- 3. Density wave theories of spiral structure
- 3.1. The winding problem
- 3.2. Spiral density wave theory
- 4. Other theories of spiral structure
- 4.1. Manifold theory
- 4.2. Magnetohydrodynamic theories
- 4.3. Driving by bars and oval distortions
- 5. Star formation in spiral galaxies
- 5.1. The large-scale shock scenario
- 5.2. Stochastic self-propagating star formation
- 5.3. Summary
- 6. Spiral structure and its connection with black holes and dark matter
- 6.1. The connection with dark matter
- 6.2. The connection with supermassive black holes
- 7. Concluding remarks.