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

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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 coordinatesngc1232_vlt_bettertint
  • 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

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