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Astrophysical advanced seminars ("Hauptseminare")for the Master of Science in Astrophysics/PhysicsOverview
Topics chosen in the WS 19/20:
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| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| *1. x | x | 12.11 | x |
| 2. A. Lottermoser | 19.11 | ||
| BC1 | Imprints of Reionization on the Cosmic Microwave Background. | Weller/Pollina | |
| 3. V. Kabel | 26.11 | ||
| TOC4 | Understanding cosmic acceleration. | Sanchez | |
| 4. B. Hagedorn | 03.12 | ||
| BL2 | The
many faces of galaxy clusters — and how to use them for studying fundamental physics. |
Bocquet/Mohr | |
| 5. x | shifted | 10.12 | |
| 6. Y. Ozsoy | 17.12 | ||
| BC2 | Gunn-Peterson effect. | Alig | |
| 7. Laurence Gong | 07.01 | ||
| BL1 | Gravitational lensing | Monna/Seitz | |
| 8. x | x | 14.01 | x |
| 9. A. Young | 21.01 | ||
| TOI3 | SINFONI: Spectro-Imaging and threedimensional data. | Gillessen | |
| 10. x | x | 28.01 | x |
| *11. x | x | 04.02 | x |
Preselected Highlight-Topics for the forthcoming semester:
1) theoretically and numerically oriented subjects
| Name | Topic | Supervisor | |
| Cosmology | |||
| BC1 | Imprints of Reionization on the Cosmic Microwave Background. | Weller/Pollina | |
| BC2 | Gunn-Peterson effect. | Alig | |
| TC5 | Explaining cosmic acceleration with Dark Energy. | Weller/Pollina | |
| Galaxy Clusters | |||
| BL1 | Gravitational lensing | Monna/Seitz | |
| BL2 | The
many faces of galaxy clusters — and how to use them for studying fundamental physics. |
Bocquet/Mohr | |
| TC6 | Cosmic Shear: Measuring Dark Matter and Dark Energy with gravitational lensing. | Friedrich/Seitz | |
| TL1 | Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Clusters. | Dolag | |
| Galaxies | |||
| BG1 | Dark Matter in the New Milky Way. | Gerhard | |
| BS2 | The Stellar Initial Mass Function. | Riffeser | |
| TG2 | Is the IMF variable? | Thomas | |
| ISM | |||
| BI3 | Broad and narrow lines regions in quasars. | Hoffmann | |
| Stars | |||
| BS3 | The wind-momentum luminosity relation. | Puls | |
| TS4 | Observational Constraints on the Birth Environment of our Solar System. | Preibisch | |
| TS3 | Spectral Energy Distributions of the first Stars and the Reionization of the universe. | Pauldrach | |
| Planets | |||
| TP2 | Early Stages of Planet Formation: From Dust to the Building Blocks of Planets. | Birnstiel | |
2) experimentally and observationally oriented subjects
| Name | Topic | Supervisor | |
| Instruments | |||
| BOI1 | Exploring telescope optics: How do the largest optical systems work? | Riffeser | |
| TOI3 | SINFONI: Spectro-Imaging and threedimensional data. | Gillessen | |
| BOI3 | Detection of Gravitational Waves. | Dietrich/Bocquet | |
| Methods | |||
| TOM1 | Optical Interferometry: Breaking the diffraction limit of individual telescopes. | Gillessen | |
| TOM4 | `Needles
in the Heystack' Searching for Machos and Planets with the difference imaging technique. |
Kodric/Riffeser | |
| TOM5 | Gravitational wave events and their visible counterpart(s). | Seitz | |
| BOM3 | Getting most out of your data - Data Reduction. | Gillessen | |
| Cosmology | |||
| TOC4 | Understanding cosmic acceleration. | Sanchez | |
| Galaxy Clusters | |||
| BOL3 | Observing
the most massive haloes back to 12 Gyr ago: witnessing the major star formation epoch of massive cluster galaxies. |
Strazzullo/Mohr | |
| BOL4 | Weighing Galaxy Clusters with Weak Gravitational Lensing. | Dietrich/Seitz | |
| Galaxies | |||
| TOG2 | The biggest black holes .. in the most diffuse galaxy centers. | Saglia | |
| TOG1 | Elliptical galaxies across cosmic time. | Beifiori/Seitz | |
| Stars | |||
| TOS2 | Intermediate-mass Black Holes. | Dexter/Gillessen | |
| Planets | |||
| BOP1 | The Kepler Mission: Searching for a twin of the Earth. | Picogna/Ercolano | |
| BOP2 | Planetary Factories: Observational Constraints on Protoplanetary Disks. | Birnstiel | |
Topics chosen in the SS 20:
Basic astrophysical concepts or
Tools in modern Astrophysics
Group A (Lecture Hall):
| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| *1. x | x | 19.05 | x |
| 2. x | x | 26.05 | x |
| *3. x | x | 02.06 | x |
| 4. x | x | 09.06 | x |
| 5. x | x | 16.06 | x |
| 6. x | x | 23.06 | x |
| 7. x | x | 30.06 | x |
| 8. x | x | 07.07 | x |
| 9. x | x | 14.07 | x |
| *10. x | x | 21.07 | x |
Group T (Seminar Room):
| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| *1. x | x | 19.05 | x |
| 2. x | x | 26.05 | x |
| *3. x | x | 02.06 | x |
| 4. x | x | 09.06 | x |
| 5. x | x | 16.06 | x |
| 6. x | x | 23.06 | x |
| 7. x | x | 30.06 | x |
| 8. x | x | 07.07 | x |
| 9. x | x | 14.07 | x |
| *10. x | x | 21.07 | x |
Topics of the 1st Semester: Basic astrophysical concepts (B)
Topics of the 2nd Semester: Tools in modern astrophysics (T and B)
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Overview |
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1) theoretically and numerically oriented subjects (32 B/T) |
2) experimentally and observationally oriented subjects (29 B/T) | ||
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Instruments |
(CCDs, large optical systems, infrared astronomy, gravitational waves, spectro-imaging) | |
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Methods |
(adaptive optics, corrections, reduction, c2, interferometry, image processing, difference imaging technique) | |
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Cosmology |
(expansion, CMB, DM, DE) |
Cosmology |
(DE Survey, DE properties, high redshift U, nature of distant G) |
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Galaxy Clusters |
(simulations, evolution, GL) |
Galaxy Clusters |
(magnetic field, DM density, mass, distribution) |
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Galaxies
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(gas and dust, structures, mergers, simulations) |
Galaxies |
(stellar structure, size, brightness, mass, metals, evolution) |
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ISM |
(instabilities, spectral features, ionization) |
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Stars |
(formation, IMF, WLR, spectra, clumping, SEDs) |
Stars |
(astrometry, clusters, populations, IMBHs) |
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Planets |
(formation, disk evolution) |
Planets |
(detection) |
1) theoretically and numerically oriented subjects (B and T)
| Name | Topic | Supervisor | |
Cosmology |
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| BC1 | Imprints of Reionization on the Cosmic Microwave Background. | Weller/Pollina | |
| BC2 | Gunn-Peterson effect. | Alig | |
| TC1 | Why is the cosmic microwave background fluctuation level 10-5? | Lesch/Tommaso | |
| TC2 | Type Ia supernovae in modern astrophysics. | Hoffmann | |
| TC3 | Spherical Collapse in a Dark Energy Dominated Universe. | Weller/Pollina | |
| TC4 | Dark matter and structure formation in the Universe? | Alig | |
| TC5 | Evidence for cosmic acceleration and possible explanations. | Pollina/Weller | |
| TC6 | Cosmic Shear: Measuring Dark Matter and Dark Energy with gravitational lensing. | Friedrich/Seitz | |
| Galaxy Clusters |
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| BL1 | The
gravitational lens effect.
or Gravitational lensing |
Seitz | |
| BL2 | The
many faces of galaxy clusters — and how to use them for studying fundamental physics. |
Bocquet/Mohr | |
| TL1 | Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Clusters. | Dolag | |
| TL2 | Galaxy evolution: From z~3 to present day. | Remus | |
| TL3 | Measuring
Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing. or Weak gravitational lensing: strech & flex of galaxies. |
Seitz | |
| Galaxies |
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| BG1 | Dark Matter in the New Milky Way. | Gerhard | |
| BG2 | Are Elliptical Galaxies made by mergers? | Remus | |
| BG3 | Surface brightness profiles of elliptical galaxies. | Naab | |
| BG4 | The orbital structure of galaxies. | Thomas | |
| TG1 | Simulations of gravitating particle systems: Evolution of star clusters and galaxies. | Naab | |
| TG2 | Dynamical
modeling and the structure of elliptical galaxies: Dark matter and the formation epoch of ellipticals. or Is the IMF variable? |
Thomas | |
| TG3 | Galaxy Models with NMAGIC - the Central Peanut Bulge of the Milky Way. | Gerhard | |
| ISM |
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| BI1 | Hierarchy of instabilities in the Interstellar Medium. | Lesch | |
| BI2 | Theory of the formation of Stroemgren spheres. | Pauldrach | |
| BI3 | Broad and narrow lines regions in quasars. | Hoffmann | |
Stars |
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| BS1 | Formation mechanisms of high-mass stars. | Preibisch | |
| BS2 | The Stellar Initial Mass Function. | Riffeser | |
| BS3 | The wind-momentum luminosity relation. | Puls | |
| BS4 | The spectral classification scheme. | Butler | |
| TS1 | Clumping in hot star winds. | Puls | |
| TS2 | Line broadening and other misdemeanours. | Butler | |
| TS3 | Spectral Energy Distributions of the first Stars and the Reionization of the universe. | Pauldrach | |
| TS4 | Observational Constraints on the Birth Environment of our Solar System. | Preibisch | |
Planets |
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| BP1 | The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks | Ercolano | |
| TP1 | The Formation of Planets. | Ercolano | |
| TP2 | Early Stages of Planet Formation: From Dust to the Building Blocks of Planets. | Birnstiel | |
2) experimentally and observationally oriented subjects (B and T)
| Name | Topic | Supervisor | |
Instruments |
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| BOI1 | Ritchey-Cretien-Telescopes
(VLT, WST 2m, PanSTARRS): The impact of science on the optical design. or Exploring telescope optics: How do the largest optical systems work? |
Grupp | |
| BOI2 | Experimental
Methods of Infrared Astronomy: The Key to the Galactic Center. |
Gillessen | |
| BOI3 | Detection of Gravitational Waves. | Dietrich/Bocquet | |
| TOI1 | Astronomical CCD Cameras. or Modern eyes in astronomy - CCDs and IR detectors. |
Lang | |
| TOI2 | VISIR: State-of-the-art instrumentation for thermal infrared studies. | Gillessen | |
| TOI3 | SINFONI: Spectro-Imaging and threedimensional data. | Gillessen | |
Methods |
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| BOM1 | c2 - fitting: Seeking the most likely truth. | Gillessen | |
| BOM2 | Adaptive Optics: Correcting the atmospheric turbulence for ground- based telescopes. | Gillessen | |
| BOM3 | Getting most out of your data - Data Reduction. | Gillessen | |
| TOM1 | Optical Interferometry: Breaking the diffraction limit of individual telescopes. | Gillessen/ Eisenhauer |
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| TOM2 | Adaptive
optics and laser guide stars: Compensating the atmospheric turbulence for diffraction limited images. or Advanced Adaptive Optics: laser guide stars and Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics. |
Gillessen | |
| TOM3 | Advanced
image processing: Deriving fundamental properties of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole and its stellar neighborhood. |
Gillessen | |
| TOM4 | `Needles
in the Heystack' Searching for Machos and Planets with the difference imaging technique. |
Kodric/Riffeser | |
| TOM5 | Gravitational wave events and their visible counterpart(s). | Seitz | |
Cosmology |
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| TOC1 | How does one make precise measurements of 1 billion galaxies? | Mohr | |
| TOC2 |
Detailed views of the era when stars have formed - the high-redshift
Universe. or Probing the nature and evolution of distant galaxies. |
Förster Schreiber | |
| TOC3 | Challenges in Galaxy Shape Measurement for Weak Gravitational Lensing. | Dietrich | |
| TOC4 | Understanding cosmic acceleration. | Sanchez | |
Galaxy Clusters |
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| BOL1 | Faraday Rotation (RM) of polarized radio emission. | Dolag | |
| BOL2 | What can the content of galaxy clusters tell us about the dark matter density in the Universe? | Mohr | |
| BOL3 | Observing
the most massive haloes back to 12 Gyr ago: witnessing the major star formation epoch of massive cluster galaxies. |
Strazzullo/Mohr | |
| BOL4 | Weighing Galaxy Clusters with Weak Gravitational Lensing. | Dietrich/Seitz | |
| (TOL1 | Galaxy Clusters with the Wendelstein Wide Field Imager. | Seitz/Grün) | |
| (TOL2 | Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters. | Grün) | |
| TOL3 | Cosmology from the large-scale structure of the Universe. | Sanchez | |
Galaxies |
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| BOG1 | Properties of early-type galaxies. | Beifiori/Seitz | |
| TOG1 | Elliptical galaxies across cosmic time. | Beifiori/Seitz | |
| TOG2 | The biggest black holes .. in the most diffuse galaxy centers. | Saglia | |
Stars |
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| BOS1 | Astrometry: Useful since the times of Kepler. | Dexter/Gillessen | |
| BOS2 | Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Colour-Magnitude diagram and globular clusters. | Riffeser | |
| TOS1 | Synthesizing stellar isochrones to observed stellar populations. | Riffeser | |
| TOS2 | Intermediate-mass Black Holes. | Dexter/Gillessen | |
Planets |
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| BOP1 | Extra-solar
Planets: The various detection methods. or The Kepler Mission: Searching for a twin of the Earth. |
Picogna/Ercolano Picogna/Ercolano |
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| BOP2 | Planetary Factories: Observational Constraints on Protoplanetary Disks. | Birnstiel | |
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