This is the definitive treatment of the phenomenology of galaxies - a clear and comprehensive volume that takes full account of the extraordinary recent advances in the field. The book supersedes the classic text "Galactic Astronomy" that James Binney wrote with Dimitri Mihalas, and complements "Gal[...]
Since it was first published in 1987, "Galactic Dynamics" has become the most widely used advanced textbook on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and one of the most cited references in astrophysics. Now, in this extensively revised and updated edition, James Binney and Scott Tremaine describe t[...]