Textbook. Written by a team of experts in an accessible style that avoids complex mathematics, and illustrated in colour throughout.

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Contains numerous pedagogical features including boxed summaries, brief biographies of pioneering astronomers, bulleted questions and answers throughout, over 100 exercises with full solutions, and a glossary of terms. Fully updated to reflect the latest developments, observations and space mission results By: Mark H Jones (Editor), Robert JA Lambourne (Editor), Stephen Serjeant (Editor) 450 pages, 235 colour & 85 b/w illustrations. This well-received textbook has been designed by a team of experts for introductory courses in astronomy and astrophysics. Starting with a detailed discussion of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, it goes on to give a general introduction to normal and active galaxies including models for their formation and evolution.

The second part of An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology provides an overview of cosmological models, discussing the Big Bang, dark energy and the expansion of the Universe. This second edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments and observations, while still probing the unresolved questions at the forefront of research. It contains numerous learning features such as boxed summaries, exercises with full solutions, a glossary and a supporting website hosting further teaching materials. Written in an accessible style that avoids complex mathematics, and illustrated in colour throughout, this text is suitable for self-study and will appeal to amateur astronomers as well as students.

' An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology is an impressive textbook. I found the presentation to be accessible to a wide variety of students, yet comprehensive and very up to date. The relevant mathematics and physics are introduced clearly and gently; advanced topics are explained in a pedagogically effective manner.

The style of presentation will attract and sustain the interest of a broad spectrum of readers; it involves them in the drama of search, discovery and the emergence of new mysteries.' - Robert Wagoner, Stanford University Reviews of the previous edition: 'My first impression of this book is how visually beautiful it is! But the beauty is not just skin deep. The authors give an appealing introduction to the subject at a level that is comprehensible to anyone with first-year university physics and astronomy courses. A very helpful aid to learning the material is the numerous questions provided.

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The questions make the reader reflect, repeat and review, which makes for an excellent learning environment. In summary, this book can be highly recommended as a lucid and readable introduction to the subjects of galaxies and cosmology.' - Stanley Yen, Physics in Canada 'This book aims to provide an introduction to extragalactic astronomy and cosmology at undergraduate level. The discussion is reinforced throughout by both clear technical diagrams and beautiful images of galaxies. The authors have succeeded in their goal of finding a presentation style which ensures accessibility. they urge active learning, some ideas being raised in question and answer fashion, encouraging the reader to consider the relevant physics before reading the answer. Each chapter also has numerous exercises, with full solutions at the back.

I would recommend this book to any amateur with basic scientific grounding who seeks to learn more about the physics of deep sky objects. It is loaded with factual information, and produced to a high standard of accuracy and clarity throughout.' - Dominic Ford, Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Jones is a Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in the Department of Physical Sciences at The Open University where his current research concentrates on the structure of the zodiacal cloud. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Lambourne is Professor of Educational Physics, Department of Physical Sciences at The Open University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

In 2002 he was awarded the Bragg Medal of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his contributions to physics education. Stephen Serjeant is a Reader in Cosmology at The Open University. He co-leads the active galaxies science theme of the ATLAS Key Project on the Herschel Space Observatory and leads Herschel's legacy survey at the North Ecliptic Pole.

. Redshift-space distortions are an effect in where the spatial distribution of galaxies appears squashed and distorted when their positions are plotted in redshift-space (i.e. As a function of their ) rather than in real-space (as a function of their actual distance).

The effect is due to the of the galaxies causing a in addition to the redshift caused by the. Redshift-space distortions (RSDs) manifest in two particular ways. The Fingers of God effect is where the galaxy distribution is elongated in redshift space, with an axis of elongation pointed toward the observer. It is caused by a Doppler shift associated with the random peculiar velocities of galaxies bound in structures such as clusters.

The large velocities that lead to this effect are associated with the of the cluster by means of the; they change the observed redshifts of the galaxies in the cluster. The deviation from the relationship between distance and redshift is altered, and this leads to inaccurate distance measurements. Another, closely related effect is the Kaiser effect. This time, the distortion is caused by the coherent motions of galaxies as they fall inwards towards the cluster center as the cluster assembles. Depending on the particular dynamics of the situation, the Kaiser effect usually leads not to an elongation, but an apparent flattening ('pancakes of God'), of the structure. It is a much smaller effect than the fingers of God, and can be distinguished by the fact that it occurs on larger scales. The previous effects are a result of special relativity, and have been observed in real data.

There are additional effects that come directly from general relativity. One is called gravitational redshift distortion. Gravitational redshift distortion comes about from the net, or blueshift, that is acquired when the photon climbs out of the gravitational potential well of the distant galaxy and then falls into the potential well of the Milky Way galaxy. This effect will make galaxies at a higher gravitational potential than us appear slightly closer (generically: less massive galaxies), and galaxies at lower potential will appear farther away (more massive galaxies and near ). The other effects of general relativity on clustering statistics are observed when the light from a background galaxy passes near, or through, a closer galaxy or cluster. These two effects go by the names integrated (ISW) and.

For ISW, when a photon passes through a low area of gravitational potential it is 'protected' from the cosmological expansion of space, making the background galaxy appear closer. Gravitational lensing, unlike all of the previous effects, distorts the apparent position, and number, of background galaxies. The RSDs measured in can be used as a cosmological probe in their own right, providing information on how structure formed in the Universe, and how gravity behaves on large scales. References Specific citations. Jackson, J.C.

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