Whittle : EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY


 
     
 
1 : Preliminaries   6 :   Dynamics I 11 : Star Formation  16 : Cosmology
2 : Morphology   7 :   Ellipticals 12 : Interactions 17 : Structure Growth 
3 : Surveys 8 :   Dynamics II 13 : Groups & Clusters  18 : Galaxy Formation 
4 : Lum. Functions  9 :   Gas & Dust   14 : Nuclei & BHs 19 : Reionization & IGM  
5 : Spirals 10 : Populations    15 : AGNs & Quasars 20 : Dark Matter



 

18.   GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION


 
           

This Topic has not yet been prepared. Maybe next time (Spring 2007)

   

(1) Introduction

     

(2) Non-linearity, Turnaround & Collapse

     

(3) Press-Schechter Formalism

     

(4) Hierarchical Merging

     

(5) Cooling & The First Stars

     

(6) N-Body Simulations

     

(7) Halo Models

     

(8) High-z Galaxies

a) Finding high-z galaxies

i) Steep spectrum radio sources

ii) drop-outs

iii) emission lines

iv) QSO absorption lines

v) help from lenses

b) Lyman-Break (Ly-B) Galaxies

c) Lyman alpha Emission Galaxies

d) Sub-mm (SCUBA) galaxies

     

(9) Damped Ly-A & Metal Line Systems

     

(10) Galaxy Evolution