astro960
Master Thesis - astro960 Module No. astro960 Category Required Credit Points (CP) 30 Semester 10. Module: Master Thesis Module Elements: Nr Course Course No. ...
msastro
Cologne Courses in Astrophysics
Cologne Courses in Astrophysics - Module No. Category Credit Points (CP) Semester Module: Cologne Courses in Astrophysics Module Elements: Nr Course Course No. ...
astro8401
Introduction to Hydro- and Magnetohydrodynamics - astro8401 Course Introduction to Hydro- and Magnetohydrodynamics Course No. astro8401 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture English 2 3 ST Requirements: Preparation: Revision of vectors and vector calculus, electromagnetism, basic thermodynamics Form of Testing and Examination: Written or oral examination Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: The students will become familiar with the basic laws of hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics and will understand their universal applicability and importance in many varied contexts. ...
astro8402
X-Ray Astronomy - astro8402 Course X-Ray Astronomy Course No. astro8402 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 ST Requirements: Preparation: Introductory astronomy lectures Form of Testing and Examination: Written or oral examination, successful exercise work Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: The student shall be familiarized with X-ray observations as a powerful tool to study almost all astrophysical objects in ways not possible in other wavebands. ...
astro8403
Hydrodynamics and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics - astro8403 Course Hydrodynamics and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics Course No. astro8403 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 ST Requirements: Preparation: Revision of elementary thermodynamics, vector calculus and electromagnetism. ...
astro8404
Radiointerferometry: Methods and Science - astro8404 Course Radiointerferometry: Methods and Science Course No. astro8404 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+2 4 ST Requirements: Preparation: Einführung in die Radioastronomie (astro123), Radio Astronomy (astro841) Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written or oral): Successful participation in the exercise sessions Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: Basics of radiointerferometric observations and techniques; review of science highlights; use of common data analysis packages. ...
astro851
Stellar and Solar Coronae - astro851 Course Stellar and Solar Coronae Course No. astro851 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 ST Requirements: Preparation: Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written or oral): successful work with the exercises Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: The student shall gain thorough knowledge of activity phenomena exhibited by the sun and other stars Contents of the Course: Sunspots and solar corona; Solar cycle; The Dynamo theory; Emission mechanism; Coronal loops; Magnetic reconnection; Flares; Magnetic stellar activity; Mapping star-spots: Doppler imaging; Radio coronae Recommended Literature: Literature references will be provided during the course PDF version of this page. ...
astro852
Gravitational Lensing - astro852 Course Gravitational Lensing Course No. astro852 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 ST Requirements: Preparation: Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written or oral): successful work with the exercises Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: After learning the basics of gravitational lensing followed by the main applications of strong and weak lensing, the students will acquire knowledge about the theoretical and observational tools and methods, as well as about the current state of the art in lensing research. ...
astro8531
The Physics of Dense Stellar Systems as the Building Blocks of Galaxies - astro8531 Course The Physics of Dense Stellar Systems as the Building Blocks of Galaxies Course No. astro8531 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 3+2 6 WT Requirements: Preparation: Participation in the lecture course and in the exercise classes and reading Form of Testing and Examination: A final two hour written exam on the contents of the course Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: The students are taught the fundamentals of collisional stellar dynamics and of the emergence of stellar populations from galactic building blocks Contents of the Course: Fundamentals of stellar dynamics: distribution functions, generating functions, collisionless Boltzmann equation, Jeans equations, Fokker-Planck equation, dynamical states, collisional dynamics and relaxation, formal differentiation between star clusters and galaxies, mass segregation, evaporation, ejection, star-cluster evolution, the form, variation and origin of the stellar initial mass function, stellar populations, their evolution and their properties, binary stars as energy sinks and sources, the distribution functions of binary stars and the evolution of these distribution functions, star-cluster birth, violent relaxation, birth of dwarf galaxies. ...
astro854
Numerical Dynamics - astro854 Course Numerical Dynamics Course No. astro854 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 ST Requirements: Preparation: Form of Testing and Examination: Requirements for the examination (written): successful work with exercises and programming tasks Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: The students will have to familiarize themselves with the various numerical recipes to solve the coupled 2nd-order differential equations as well as with the limitations of these methods Contents of the Course: The two-body problem and its analytical solution. ...