Universitäts-Sternwarte München

Fakultät für Physik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Instruction manuals for the astrophysical labs

(WP 17.1/2, WP 1.1) Numerical lab (computational methods in astrophysics)

You can do a Fortran version and a Python version. Please see this web page for information about the numerical lab.

• Matrix inversion
  + Supplement for Python
• Integration methods
  + Supplement for Python
• Ordinary differential equations
  + Supplement for Python
  Read all of the instruction manual and solve the problems embedded in the text!
  You should also write up these solutions in your lab report.
• N-body simulations
• Random numbers and Monte Carlo simulation
  + Supplement for Python
• Monte Carlo Markov chains and lensing profile of galaxy clusters:
  Fortran, Python

(WP 16.1/2, WP 2.1/2) Observational and instrumental lab

• Adaptive optics
• Building a CD spectrograph
• Observing with our 2-m radio telescope
• Spatial interferometry
• WST-I: Observation at the Wendelstein observatory: 40-cm telescope manual and observing instructions
  To be read BEFORE observations!
• WST-I: Imaging observations & data reduction using the Wendelstein 40-cm telescope
• WST-II: Scientific analysis of your imaging observations: color–magnitude relation and age of a globular cluster
• WST-III: Observing with the Spectrograph “PSPEC” at the Wendelstein 40-cm telescope

(P 2.1/2, P 2.1) Astrophysical lab

• Galaxy photometry
• Planetary nebulae and their central stars + Software instructions
• Lyman-alpha forest
• Search for extrasolar planets
• Star formation
• Strong lensing
• Weak lensing
• Winds from hot stars
• Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary atmospheres + Data for Exoplanetary atmospheres (84 Megabytes)

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