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Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology: An Introduction

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Subject Index<br />

459<br />

virial theorem 13, 187, 233<br />

virial velocity 298<br />

virtual observatory 411<br />

VISTA 407<br />

VLT Survey Telescope (VST) 407<br />

voids 12, 277, 311<br />

Voigt profile 221<br />

W<br />

warm-hot intergalactic medium 334<br />

wave number 284<br />

weak lensing effect see gravitational<br />

lenses<br />

wedge diagram 310, 316<br />

white dwarfs 49, 73, 328, 426, 429<br />

Wide-Field <strong>and</strong> Planetary Camera<br />

(WFPC2) 26<br />

wide-field cameras 265, 407<br />

width of a spectral line 181<br />

Wien approximation 419<br />

Wien’s law 419<br />

WIMPs 161, 165–166, 411<br />

WMAP 22, 168, 345–352, 382<br />

X<br />

X-factor 51<br />

XMM-Newton 31, 202, 248<br />

X-ray background 168<br />

X-ray binaries 188<br />

Y<br />

yield 139<br />

Z<br />

Zeeman effect 52<br />

zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) 428<br />

Zone of Avoidance 36, 223, 320

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