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    Figures for Chapter 2 of `Galaxies in the Universe'

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  • All Chapter 2 figures as a tar file

  • Figure 2.1: stellar parallax
  • Figure 2.2: local CMD from Hipparcos (MHp is the Hipparcos band, slightly bluer than V; colors code spectral types)
  • Figure 2.3: local luminosity function
  • Figure 2.4: initial luminosity function
  • Figure 2.5: mass function for Pleiades
  • Figure 2.6: eccentric orbits around a point mass
  • Figure 2.7: light echo
  • Figure 2.8: height distribution of stars
  • Figure 2.9: vertical speeds of stars
  • Figure 2.10: Gould's Belt
  • Figure 2.11: Pleiades
  • Figure 2.12: Pleiades CMD
  • Figure 2.13 globular cluster 47 Tucanae
  • Figure 2.14: globular cluster CMDs
  • Figure 2.15: globular cluster distribution
  • Figure 2.16: star counts separate disk from halo
  • Figure 2.17: star orbits near MW black hole
  • Figure 2.18: Galactic rotation (1)
  • Figure 2.19: Galactic rotation (2)
  • Figure 2.20: HI in the Milky Way's disk
  • Figure 2.21: Milky Way rotation curve
  • Figure 2.22: radial distribution of cool gas
  • Figure 2.23: high-latitude HI gas
  • Figure 2.24: infrared spectra of NGC 7331, M82
  • Figure 2.25: cooling curve for interstellar gas

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