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🚀Astrophysics II
Key Terms

451 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Astrophysics II exam

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λCDM model

A

Adiabatic Collapse
Adiabatic temperature gradient
Advection-Dominated Accretion Flow
Age Dating of Stars
Age-metallicity relation
AGN Feedback
Agn heating
AGN Outflow
Alcock-Paczynski Effect
Alpha process
Alpha-elements
Alpha-enhancement
Angular Diameter Distance
Atmospheric composition
Atmospheric disequilibrium
Atmospheric turbulence

B

Baryonic matter
Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation
Big bang theory
Bimodality in galaxy populations
Binary systems
Black hole mass function
Black hole thermodynamics
Black hole-galaxy co-evolution
Blackbody spectrum
Blueshift
Bok Globules
Boltzmann Equation
Bondi Accretion
Bonnor-Ebert Stability Criterion
Bose-Einstein Condensates
Bounce mechanism
Bremsstrahlung
Bremsstrahlung radiation
Broad Emission Lines

C

Carbon and oxygen burning
Carbon-12
Carbon-oxygen core
Ccd
Central Density
Cepheid Variable
Chameleon Mechanism
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Chaotic inflation
Chemical Abundance Analysis
Chemical Composition
Classical nova
Cloud fragmentation
Cluster Equilibrium
Cluster Formation
Cluster mass
Cluster temperature
Cno cycle
Coincidence problem
Cold dark matter
Cold Gas Giants
Cold neutral medium
Collapsar model
Color magnitude diagram
Compression Waves
Compton Heating
Convection cells
Convective efficiency
Convective Instability
Convective transport
Convective Zone
Convergence Power Spectrum
Cooling Flows
Cooling Sequence
Core Accretion Model
Core accretion theory
Core contraction
Core density
Core helium burning