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 for Participation: Preparation: Revision of elementary thermodynamics, vector calculus and electromagnetism. ...
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 for Participation: 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. ...
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 for Participation: 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. ...
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 for Participation: 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. ...
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 for Participation: 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. ...
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 for Participation: 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. ...
Quasars and Microquasars - astro856 Course Quasars and Microquasars Course No. astro856 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture English 2 3 WT Requirements for Participation: Preparation: Form of Testing and Examination: Written or oral examination Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: The phenomenon of quasars and their energy production shall be studied from the smallest (stellar binaries) to the largest (active galactic nuclei) scales Contents of the Course: Microquasars and Quasars; X-ray binaries; Accretion; Neutron stars; Black holes; X-ray observations; Spectral states; Radio observations; Doppler boosting; Energy losses; Magneto-hydrodynamic production of jets; Gamma-ray observations; Review of Microquasars; Quasi periodic oscillations (QPO) Recommended Literature: Literature references will be provided during the course PDF version of this page. ...
Star Formation - astro857 Course Star Formation Course No. astro857 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 WT Requirements for Participation: Preparation: Form of Testing and Examination: Written or oral examination Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: An introduction to basic concepts, modern theories, and the current observational basis of star formation. ...
Nucleosynthesis - astro858 Course Nucleosynthesis Course No. astro858 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 3+1 6 ST Requirements for Participation: Preparation: Introduction to Astronomy, Stars and Stellar Evolution Form of Testing and Examination: Written or oral examination Length of Course: 1 semester Aims of the Course: Obtain an overview of the different nucleosynthesis processes in the universe, an understanding of how they work, and where they work. ...
The cosmic history of the intergalactic medium - astro859 Course The cosmic history of the intergalactic medium Course No. astro859 Category Type Language Teaching hours CP Semester Elective Lecture with exercises English 2+1 4 WT Requirements for Participation: Preparation: Basic atomic physics (hydrogen atom) and basic thermodynamics. ...