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Preface | p. 1 |
Galaxies: an overview | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
A brief history of galactic astronomy | p. 2 |
Photometric models of the Milky Way | p. 5 |
The nature of the spiral nebulae | p. 0 |
Kinematic models of the Milky Way | p. 15 |
Stellar populations | p. 20 |
More recent developments | p. 212 Astronom |
Positions, motions and coordinate systems | p. 27 |
The equatorial system | p. 27 |
Galactic coordinates | p. 30 |
Parallax | p. 31 |
Proper motions | p. 34 |
Precession and nutation | p. 35 |
Astrometric systems | p. 37 |
Distances determined from velocities | p. 38 |
Radial velocities | p. 39 |
Distances from the movingcluster method | p. 40 |
Secular parallaxes | p. 42 |
Statistical parallaxes | p. 45 |
Magnitudes and colors | p. 46 |
Apparent magnitudes | p. 47 |
Colors | p. 52 |
Absolute magnitudes | p. 56 |
Absolute energy distributions | |
and bolometric magnitudes | p. 58 |
Mass-to-light ratios | |
Surface brightness and isophotal radii | |
Gravitational lensing | p. 62 |
Archival data and catalogs | p. 67 |
On-line resources | p. 71 |
Problems | p. 743 The Prop |
The masses of stars | p. 76 |
The Mass of the Sun | p. 77 |
Masses of binary stars | p. 78 |
Visual binaries | p. 78 |
Spectroscopic binaries | p. 79 |
The radii of stars | p. 82 |
Phase interferometry | p. 82 |
Intensity interferometry | p. 83 |
Speckle interferometry | p. 83 |
Lunar occultations | p. 84 |
Eclipsing binaries | p. 84 |
Astrophysical estimates | p. 86 |
Classification of stars | p. 87 |
Novae | p. 87 |
Pulsars | p. 87 |
Classification of stellar spectra | p. 88 |
The MK system | p. 90 |
Physical interpretation of stellar spectra | p. 94 |
Color-magnitude diagrams | p. 102 |
Observed Cm-diagrams | p. 103 |
Luminosity and color as functions of spectral class | p. 104 |
The physical properties of stars on the MS and RGB | p. 109 |
The stellar luminosity function | p. 109 |
Malmquist bias | p. 111 |
Lutz-Kelker Bias | p. 115 |
The general luminosity function | p. 119 |
Cluster luminosity functions | p. 119 |
Photometrically complete surveys | p. 119 |
Proper-motion selected surveys | p. 20 |
The luminosity function of a given MK spectral class | p. 127 |
Catalogs of the nearby stars | p. 130 |
Interstellar dust | p. 131 |
Extinction and reddening | p. 133 |
Reddening-free indices | p. 138 |
Polarization of starlight by dust | p. 140 |
Extinction of sightlines out of the Galaxy | p. 140 |
Problems | p. 1434 Morphol |
Morphological classification of galaxies | p. 146 |
The Hubble sequence | p. 149 |
Effects of environment | p. 157 |
The galaxy luminosity function | p. 162 |
The field galaxy luminosity function | p. 162 |
The cluster galaxy luminosity function | p. 165 |
The luminosity function divided by morphological type | p. 167 |
The Local Group | p. 169 |
Surface Photometry of Galaxies | p. 172 |
The night sky | p. 173 |
Effect of seeing | p. 176 |
Deprojecting galaxy images | p. 179 |
Photometry of Elliptical Galaxies | p. 85 |
Radial surface-brightness profiles of elliptical galaxies | p. 185 |
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