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Linda S. Sparke og John S. Gallagher III: Galaxies in the Universe: An introduction, 2007 (2. utgave). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-67186-6. http://www.akademika.no/galaxies-in-the-universe/john-s-gallagher/linda-s-sparke/9780521671866.
There might be some typos in the book.
The following parts of the book are not on the curriculum for this course: Chapter 1 (considered background material), chapter 3 section 3 (the epicycle approximation).
The final exam will cover the following material:
- My lecture notes on perturbation theory.
- My lecture notes on spherical collapse.
- My lecture notes on the Press-Schechter mass function.
- My lecture notes on peculiar velocities and redshift space
distortions.
- Chapter 7, section 4 in the textbook, on gravitational lenses.