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1.
Summary of the lectures
2.
Celestial coordinates (1.3)
3.
Telescopes and angular resolution (6.1)
4.
Parallax distance (3.1)
5.
Flux, luminosity, apparent and absolute magnitudes, colors (3.2, 3.3, 3.6)
6.
The Black Body (3.4, 3.5)
7.
The Hydrogen atom, eccitation an the Boltzmann equation,
ionization and the Saha equation (8.1)
8.
The Hertzsprung-Russel diagram (8.2)
9.
The Transfer Equation, color excess (9.2, 9.3, 12.1)
10.
Spectroscopic measures of velocity, temterature and density
11.
The curve of growth and abundance measures (9.5)
12.
Internal structure of stars. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (10.1-4)
13.
The hydrogen nuclear reactions (10.3)
14.
Jeans mass. Collapsing clouds. Free Fall time. Initial Mass Function (12.2, 12.3)
15.
Open and globular clusters: stellar populations and HR diagrams (13.3)
16.
The Milky Way and the Local Group (24.1, 24.2)
17.
Metallicity (24.2)
18.
The rotation curve of galaxies and the dark matter (24.3)
19.
Galaxy classification (25.1)
20.
Collision/merging probability among galaxies and among stars

In parenthesis are the paragraphs from “An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, II ed. - B.W. Carrol, D.A.
Ostlie - Ed. Pearson, Addison Wesley ”.

“An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, II ed. - B.W. Carrol, D.A.
Ostlie - Ed. Pearson, Addison Wesley ”