TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bertin,G.
TI  - Dynamics of galaxies
SN  - 9781107000544 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - QB857 .B47 2014
U1  - 524.882 BAA 23
KW  - Galaxies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
ER  -