Galactic Astronomy

這本書取代了詹姆斯·賓尼與迪米特里·米哈拉斯寫下的經典文本銀河天文學，並補充了賓尼和斯科特·崔邁因的銀河動力學。這對於研究人員來說是無價的，並且對於任何具​​有大學生物理背景的學生都是可以接受的。

本書吸取了我們自己的銀河系，銀河系和外部星系的觀察資料。這兩個來源是互補的，因為前者往往非常詳細但難以解釋，而後者通常質量較差，但在概念上更易於理解。 Binney和Merrifield介紹了理解星係屬性所需的所有天文學概念，包括坐標系，量級和顏色，恆星現象學，恆星和化學演化理論以及天文距離測量。

This is the definitive treatment of the phenomenology of galaxies--a clear and comprehensive volume that takes full account of the extraordinary recent advances in the field. The book supersedes the classic text Galactic Astronomy that James Binney wrote with Dimitri Mihalas, and complements Galactic Dynamics by Binney and Scott Tremaine. It will be invaluable to researchers and is accessible to any student who has a background in undergraduate physics.

The book draws on observations both of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and of external galaxies. The two sources are complementary, since the former tends to be highly detailed but difficult to interpret, while the latter is typically poorer in quality but conceptually simpler to understand. Binney and Merrifield introduce all astronomical concepts necessary to understand the properties of galaxies, including coordinate systems, magnitudes and colors, the phenomenology of stars, the theory of stellar and chemical evolution, and the measurement of astronomical distances.

  James Binney (Editor)  (Autor)

Publisher: Princeton University Press 

ISBN:    978-0691025650 

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