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* Draw a sketch of the Milky Way?  Label distances.  What are the stellar populations and scale heights (4 of them not including globular clusters)?   
 
* Draw a sketch of the Milky Way?  Label distances.  What are the stellar populations and scale heights (4 of them not including globular clusters)?   
 
** What is the density of halo stars?
 
** What is the density of halo stars?
** What is the density of stars in the solar neighborhood?   
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** What is the density of stars in the solar neighborhood?  (AB)
  
 
[[Astrophysics]]
 
[[Astrophysics]]

Revision as of 02:43, 6 December 2008

MT

  • Draw a sketch of the galaxy edge-on
  • what's the rotation curve if there were only the supremassive BH, if it

were constant density, the one actually measured?

  • what does this imply? about the density of DM? do you know of any physical

process which would lead to this r-dependence of density

  • where are the globular clusters? how many are there?
  • Draw a sketch of the Milky Way? Label distances. What are the stellar populations and scale heights (4 of them not including globular clusters)?
    • What is the density of halo stars?
    • What is the density of stars in the solar neighborhood? (AB)

Astrophysics