Seminar der Astrophysik / The Astrophysics Seminar

(http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/AstroSem/seminar.html)

Course #6961 (SS 2007)

Elective Seminar in Experimental Physics (Advanced Studies), 6 credit points

Wahlpflichtseminar in Experimentalphysik (Hauptstudium)

Mondays, 14 ct (14:15) o'clock, HS Astronomy, Auf dem Hügel 71.
(Presentation of topics with all participants begins Monday 16th April 2007 in HS of Astronomy.)
Supervised by all astronomy lecturers.
Organizaton: Pavel Kroupa (Tel. 73-6140, pavel@astro.uni-bonn.de).

Preparation of Talks:
Material for the seminar is provided by the supervisors (copies of papers, pens, transparencies,
slides, overhead, beamer). If you wish to use a beamer, contact your supervisor in time!

Quality of Talks:
This will be the first time that you encounter up-to-date scientific
literature in the form of research papers. Research papers
are not easy to read, and this is one of the hurdles you will need
to pass on your way to giving the talk.

A research paper typically contains references to other papers. Which of these
you should follow-up will be clarified by talking to your supervisor.
Following-up some of the cited literature will teach you how to navigate the
manifold of professional literature.

The talks ought to be prepared for the benefit of
your fellow students. Therefore this is an excellent chance to
practice your didactic skills. The aim is to communicate science.
Note: Avoid black or blue backgrounds as these put the audience to sleep.
Best is to use a simple white background with black or blue letters for the writing.

While the talks may be held in German, the supervisors strongly encourage
you to talk in English, as this benefits your training.

A variety of topics are offered:


Date	Subject	Speaker	Supervisor
16.04.07	Presentation of topics	P.Kroupa et al.
23.04.
30.04.
7.05.
14.05.
21.05.
28.05.	Pfingsten
04.06.	12) "LOFAR: Opening up a new window on the Universe"	Bertalan Feher	Uleich Klein
11.06.
18.06.
25.06.
02.07.	5) "Observation of the giant radio galaxy M87 at TeV energies with H.E.S.S"	Michael Brockamp	Peter Biermann
09.07.	4) "The Rotation Velocity Attributable to Dark Matter at Intermediate Radii in Disk Galaxies"	Kerstin Enders-Brehm	Pavel Kroupa

Subjects will be presented by the supervisors (please contact them)
on the first (organizational) meeting (April 16th), but can be offered already during the
vacation period. If you chose a subject during the vacation period, you should volunteer
to give your seminar at an early date of the semester. Please contact the supervisors.

Currently proposed topics: (a "t" in front of the number means the
topis has been taken already):

1) "Coronal Pseudostreamers"
Wang, Y.-M.; Sheeley, N. R., Jr.; Rich, N. B. 2007, ApJ, 658, 1340
Supervisor: Maria Massi

2) "Huygens lands on Titan - Lifting the veil"
Lebreton et al., Nature 438, 758-764, 2005
Supervisor: Robin Dutta-Roy

3) "Gas around an active galactic nucleus: Integral field spectroscopy of the Circinus Galaxy"
Mueller Sánchez et al., 2006, Astronony & Astrophysics, 454, 481 (astro-ph/0604317)
Supervisor: Thomas Beckert

t4) "The Rotation Velocity Attributable to Dark Matter at Intermediate Radii in Disk Galaxies"
S. S. McGaugh ,1 W. J. G. de Blok , et al.: The Astrophysical Journal, 659:149-161, 2007 April 10
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
(unavailable on the following Mondays: 23.04., 30.04., 25.06., )

t5) "Observation of the giant radio galaxy M87 at TeV energies with H.E.S.S"
M. Beilicke et al., astro-ph/0504395
Supervisor: Peter Biermann

6) "MiniBoone results on the masses of cosmological neutrinos (announcement April 11, 2007)"
Supervisor: Peter Biermann

7) "Modified gravity without dark matter"
Review by R.H. Sanders, astro-ph/0601431
Supervisor: Bodo Ziegler

8) "Disk Galaxies at z~2 observed with SINFONI:
The rapid formation of a large rotating disk galaxy three billion years after the Big Bang"
Genzel et al., Nature 442, 786
Supervisor: Bodo Ziegler

9) "Cosmology with X-Ray Cluster Surveys":
"The Lx--Yx Relation: Using Galaxy Cluster X-Ray Luminosity as a Robust, Low Scatter Mass Proxy"
B.J. Maughan, astro-ph/0703504
"eRosita"
P. Predehl et al., SPIE, 6266, 2006
Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich
(unavailable on 14.5., 21.5., 2.7., 9.7.)

10) "Radio Emission from the Intermediate-mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1 "
James S. Ulvestad, Jenny E. Greene, Luis C. Ho ApJ in press
Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

11) "Chandra and Spitzer observations of triggered star formation in IC 1396"
Getman et al., 2007, ApJ, 654, 316
Supervisor: Thomas Preibisch
(not available on 14.05., 21.05., 11.06., 18.06., 02.07.)

t12) "LOFAR: Opening up a new window on the Universe"
Roettgering et al. (2006)
Supervisor: Ulrich Klein

13) "Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding"
R. Massey et al., Nature, 445 (2007) 286
"Large Structures and Galaxy Evolution in COSMOS at z < 1.1 N."
Scoville et al. - astro-ph/0612384
Supervisor: Frank Bertoldi

14) "The Cosmic Eye: A very bright, highly magnified Lyman-break galaxy at z=3.07"
Smail et al. 2007, ApJ 654, 33
Supervisor: Peter Schneider

15) "Lakes on titan"
Supervisor: Michael Bird

16) "Saturn's rotation and the role of tiny Enceladus"
Supervisor: Michael Bird

Tutors:

Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

Supervisor: Thomas Beckert

Supervisor: Frank Bench

Supervisor: Frank Bertoldi

Supervisor: Peter Biermann

Supervisor: Michael Bird

Supervisor: Klaas de Boer

Supervisor: Robin Dutta-Roy

Supervisor: Hans Fahr

Supervisor: Juergen Kerp

Supervisor: Ulrich Klein

Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
(unavailable on the following Mondays: 23.04., 30.04., 25.06., )

Supervisor: Maria Massi

Supervisor: Karl Menten

Supervisor: Thomas Preibisch

Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich

Supervisor: Philipp Richter

Supervisor: Peter Schneider

Pavel Kroupa

E-mail: Pavel K.