AY 102 Lab Exercise 8: Cosmic Distributions and the Galactic Ecology

These are the pages for the AY 102 Lab Exercise 8: Galactic Distributions. Please consult your lab manual along with these images to answer the questions.

• Virtual sky
• Galactic coordinates
• Introduction to galactic distributions
  • Part I: Isotropic distribution
  • Part II: Halo distribution
  • Part III: Anisotropic distribution
• Isotropy vs. anisotropy
• Star cluster distributions
  • Part I: Open clusters
  • Part II: Globular star clusters
• Gas and dust clouds
• Galaxy distributions
• Pulsars
• X-ray sources
• Gamma ray bursts
• The neutrino sky
• Cosmic microwave background