LA FRANCA FABIO
(syllabus)
1. Principles of Stellar Evolution 2. Principles of Observational Astronomy 3. The Milky Way 4. The central Black Hole of the Milky Way 5. Galaxy classification 6. Mass distribution, potentials, and isophotes 7. Rotation curves 8. Scaling relations in galaxies 9. Astrophysical Spectroscopy: cold gas, hot gas and molecular gas 10. Velocity, temperature and density measures 11. Active Galactic Nuclei: the structure and the central engine 12. The measure of the supermassive black hole masses 13. The evolution of the Active Galactic Nuclei 14. AGN/galaxy coevolution 15. Measure and history of the Star Formation Rate of galaxies 16. Luminosity and mass functions evolution of AGN and galaxies. Synthesis of the cosmic backgrounds. 17. Metallicity 18. Clusters of galaxies
(reference books)
Testo: L.S. Sparke and J.S. Gallagher Galaxies in the Universe - An Introduction. Cambridge University Press
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