Astrophysics of Galaxies


Pavel Kroupa

Usually Fridays 14:00-17:00, sometimes Thursdays, 15:15-18:15; HS Astronomie





Thursday 16.04.26
I. Introduction - Relaxation vs virialisation time (ApGal_I_introd.pdf)
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Friday 24.04.
II. Observables, galaxy parameters, scaling relations (ApGal_II.pdf)
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Thursday 30.04.
III. Observables, CBE, Jeans equations systems (ApGal_III.pdf)
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Friday 08.05.
IV. Spheroidal systems, virial equations, satellite galaxies (ApGal_IV.pdf)
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Friday 15.05. (via zoom)
V. Simple phase-space distribution functions, E galaxies, disk galaxies and their formation / movies (ApGal_V.pdf)
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Friday 22.05.
VI. Chandrasekhar dynamical friction. Using it to test for dark matter (ApGal_VI.pdf)
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Friday 29.05.
no lecture (lecture free week) ---
Friday 05.06. (via zoom)
VII. Chandrasekhar dynamical friction and the Milky Way satellites, their substructures, gravitational potentials around galaxies, tidal tails of star clusters as tests of gravitation (ApGal_VII.pdf)
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Friday 12.06.
VIII. The Disks-of-Satellite-Galaxies Problem, the Structure of the Local Group, the KBC Void and Hubble Tension, The El Gordo and Bullet Clusters of galaxies and the formation and evolution of tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs)(ApGal_VIII.pdf)
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Friday 19.06.
IX. Dual Dwarf Galaxy Theorem, dynamics of the Local Group, implications of apparent dark matter content of satellite galaxies for gravitational theory, galaxies obey Milgromian gravitation (ApGal_IX.pdf 16MB)
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Friday 26.06.
X. The transition function, Lagrangian, why exponentisal galactic disks, calculation of rotation curves, Lindblad resonances, propertiesof disk galaxies, asymmetric drift (ApGal_X.pdf, 6MB)
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Friday 03.07.
XI. .... (ApGal_XI.pdf)
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Friday 10.07.
XII. ....(ApGal_XII.pdf)
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Friday 17.07.
XIII. .... (ApGal_XIII.pdf)
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Friday 24.07.
XIV. .... (ApGal_XIV.pdf)
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Friday 07.08. 1st EXAM (14:00-17:00, HS AIfA)
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Friday 09.10. Repeat EXAM (14:00-17:00, HS AIfA)
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