Book on galaxy spectra
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Anyone know a good book on learning about galaxy spectra starting with the basics? Or any other resource, besides the old forum thread by NGC3314 or Budgieyes Index?
Thinking about the ‘Spectral atlas..astronomers’ / ‘Spectroscopy..astronomers’ set (R. Walker+) but seems to be focused almost entirely on star spectra (90%).
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bluemagi
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Index_of_Galaxy_Spectra.html?id=El-AAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
You might want to try this one. I don't know if this is what your looking for. AlfPosted
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Not sure, can you personally recommend it?
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Budgieye
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I woud look at Dr Keel's graduate class lecture notes
http://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/billkeel.html
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bluemagi
No, but This one I can. It costs around $200.00 in Australia. You might get it cheaper in Europe or USA.,Introduction to Astronomical Spectroscopy by Immo Appenzeller. This book covers everything. Alf
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Nice resources thanks!
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mlpeck
This book looks intriguing, but it's aimed at graduate students and researchers:
Hammer, F. et al. 2017: "Studying Distant Galaxies: a Handbook of Methods and Analyses"
Part of it is on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03794, so you can preview it for free. The hardcover edition is pretty expensive, but the Kindle edition's price isn't so bad.
I highly recommend Kennicutt 1992: "A Spectrophotometric Atlas of Galaxies" to get an intuitive feel for how galaxy spectra vary across Hubble types.
There's a companion paper Kennicutt 1992b: "The Integrated Spectra of Nearby Galaxies: General Properties and Emission-Line Spectra" that goes into more quantitative details of emission line strengths. His calibration of the Hα luminosity - SFR relationship is still pretty much the standard.
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Oooh nice! Would love to get a book covering the subject from A to Z but not if its mainly about galactic stars or spectroscopic techniques.
It seems I can get pretty far with online sources for starters so far.
Thanks everyone
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