and Cosmology

Subject Index
458
reverberation mapping 198, 204
right ascension 35
ROSAT 31, 104, 255, 258, 322, 380
ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) 31,
255, 324
rotation measure 52
rotational flattening 93
RR Lyrae stars 44, 56
S
Sachs–Wolfe effect 337, 339
Sagittarius dwarf galaxy 6, 227, 392
Saha equation 167
satellite galaxies see galaxies
scale factor see Universe
scale-height of the Galactic disk 46,
47
scale-length of the Galactic disk 47
Schechter luminosity function 118,
230, 323
SCUBA 22
secondary distance indicators
116–117, 319
seeing 19, 25, 37
self-shielding 377
service mode observing 29
Seyfert galaxies see active galaxies
SgrA ∗ see Galactic center
shape parameter Γ 288, 314, 319,
324, 336
shells and ripples 96
shock fronts 53, 180, 214, 251
Silk damping 337, 339
singular isothermal sphere 232, 261
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
217, 239, 313, 319, 351
SOFI camera 26
softening length 294
sound horizon 337, 339, 340
source counts in an Euclidean universe
144
source function 418
specific energy density of a radiation
field 417
specific intensity 156, 417
spectral classes 425–426
spherical collapse model 289–290
spiral arms 98, 103
– as density waves 103
spiral galaxies see galaxies
Spitzer Space Telescope 24
Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 410
standard candles 49, 116, 324–325
star formation 51, 374, 383,
387–389, 392
– and color of galaxies 136, 274,
363, 390
– cosmic history 387–390
– quiescent star formation 390
– star-formation rate 89, 133, 203,
333, 361, 387
starburst galaxies see galaxies
Stefan–Boltzmann law 420
stellar evolution 392
stellar populations 46, 47
Subaru telescope 27, 362
Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect 338, 341
– distance determination 253
– Hubble constant 254
superclusters 277, 322
superluminal motion 188–191, 207,
210
supernovae 47, 429
– as distance indicators 49, 116,
324–329
– at high redshift 325–326
– classification 48
– core-collapse supernovae 48
– evolutionary effects 328
– metal enrichment of the ISM
47–49, 385
– SN 1987A 48, 115
– supernovae Type Ia 49
surface brightness fluctuations 116
surface gravity 426
SWIFT 405
synchrotron radiation 52, 179–181,
196, 212, 214
synchrotron self-absorption 181
synchrotron self-Compton radiation
214
T
tangent point method 61–63
tangential velocity 38
thermal radiation 419
Thomson scattering 193, 337, 341
three-body dynamical system 85
tidal tails 370, 393
time dilation 328
transfer function 285–288, 314
trigonometric parallax 37–38
Tully–Fisher relation 319
– baryonic 106
Two-Degree Field Survey 217, 277,
314, 316
Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
259, 321
two-photon decay 167
U
ultra-luminous compact X-ray sources
(ULXs) 371
ultra-luminous infrared galaxies
(ULIRGs) see galaxies
Universe
– age 144, 153, 154
– critical density 148, 171, 298
– density 15, 17, 351, 353
– density fluctuations 17, 277
– density parameter 155, 165, 171,
322, 323, 330
– Einstein–de Sitter model 17, 155,
159, 281, 292
– expansion 8, 146, 147, 161, 279
– scale factor 146, 152
– standard model 3, 169–173, 302,
309, 346
– thermal history 160–169
V
vacuum energy see dark energy
velocity dispersion 46
– in clusters of galaxies 232
– in galaxies 93, 113, 123
Very Large Array (VLA) 21, 212,
376
Very Large Telescope (VLT) 28
Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
21
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
(VLBI) 21
violent relaxation 235, 290
Virgo Cluster of galaxies 12, 114,
116, 117, 228
virial mass 256
virial radius 256, 298