Seminar der Astrophysik / The Astrophysics Seminar
(http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/AstroSem/seminar.html)
Course #6961 (WS 2005/2006)
Elective Seminar in Experimental Physics (Advanced
Studies), 6 credit points
Wahlpflichtseminar in Experimentalphysik (Hauptstudium)
Mondays, 14:15 Uhr (c.t.), HS Astronomy, Auf dem Hügel 71.
(Presentation of topics with all participants begins Monday 24th October 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.
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
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Subject
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Speaker
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Supervisor
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24.10.05
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Presentation of topics
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P.Kroupa et
al.
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31.10.
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07.11.
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10) Observing
the building blocks of planets in protoplanetary disks |
Carsten Koenig
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Thomas Preibisch
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14.11.
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8) Feeding the Monster: The Nucleus of NGC 1097 at
Subarcsecond Scales in the Infrared with the VLT.
|
Marcel
Pawlowski
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Thomas Beckert
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21.11.
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28.11.
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6) HI study of the warped spiral galaxy NGC5055: a
disk/dark matter
halo offset? |
Maike Sawitzki |
Ulrich Klein
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05.12.
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12.12.
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3) Tracing the
warm-hot intergalactic medium in the local universe
|
Timea Csengeri
|
Peter Biermann
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19.12.
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09.01.06
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16.01.
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23.01.
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| 30.01. |
14) Detection
of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation
Function of
SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
|
Er Xinzhong |
Peter
Schneider |
06.02.
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Subjects will be presented by the supervisors (please contact them)
on the first (organizational) meeting (Oct. 24th),
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. Contact the
supervisors.
Currently proposed topics: (a
"t" in front of the number means the
topis has been taken already)
1) A high fraction of double
trans-neptunian bodies in the (outer) solar system, and its origin
D.C.
Stephens, K.S. Noll (astro-ph/0510130)
M.E. Brown et al. (astro-ph/0510029)
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
2) Pulsar kicks from
neutrino oscillations
A. Kusenko, Int. J. of Mod.
Phys. D, 2065, 2004.
Supervisor:
Peter Biermann
(best
before Christmas)
t3) Tracing the
warm-hot intergalactic medium in the local universe
M.
Viel et al., MNRAS 360, 1110 (2005).
Supervisor: Peter Biermann
4) Spiral
shocks, triggering of star formation and the velocity dispersion in
Giant
Molecular clouds
I.A. Bonnell et al., MNRAS, in press
(astro-ph/0509809)
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
5) An X-ray Galaxy Cluster Survey for Investigations of Dark Energy
Haiman et al. (astro-ph/0507013),
Mohr, J., 2005, (conference
proceedings),
Majumdar et al., 2004
(astro-ph/0305341)
Supervisor:
Thomas Reiprich
t6) HI study of the warped spiral galaxy NGC5055: a disk/dark matter
halo offset?
Battaglia, G., Fraternali, F.,
Oosterloo, T., Sancisi, R. 2005 (astro-ph/0509382)
Supervisor:
Ulrich Klein
7) Binary Mergers and Growth of
Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
O'Leary et al., ApJ in press
(astro-ph/0508224)
Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt
t8) Feeding the Monster: The Nucleus of NGC 1097 at
Subarcsecond Scales in the Infrared with the VLT.
A. M. Prieto, W.
Maciejewski, J. Reunanen 2005, The Astronomical Journal,
130, 1472
Supervisor: Thomas Beckert
9) Multiple
relativistic outbursts of GRS1915+105:
radio emission and internal
shocks
Miller-Jones et al. 2005,
MNRAS, 363, 867
Supervisor:
Maria Massi
t10) Observing the building blocks of planets in protoplanetary disks
van Boekel et al, 2004
Nature,
Volume 432, Issue 7016, pp. 479-482
Supervisor:
Thomas Preibisch
(not
on 31.10., 14.11., 21.11., and 30.01.06)
11) The
properties of Galactic globular cluster sub-systems and the
formation
of the Galactic halo
van den Bergh, S. & Mackey,
A.D.., MNRAS 354, 713 (2004)
Mackey, A.D. & Gilmore, G.F.,
MNRAS.355, 504 (2004)
Mackey, A.D. & van den Bergh,
S., MNRAS 360, 631 (2005)
Supervisor:
Michael Hilker
12) The
Detection of Silicate Emission from
Quasars at 10 and 18 Microns
Hao et al., ApJ, 625, L75 (2005)
Discovery of 10 mum silicate
emission in quasars. Evidence of the AGN unification scheme
Siebenmorgen, R., Haas, M., Krügel, E.,
Schulz, B., A&A 436, L5 (2005)
Supervisor: Karl Menten
(not on 21.11, 28.11.)
13) Die
Entdeckung eines neuen Planeten jenseits von Pluto;
Was darf sich
überhaupt Planet nennen?
(Klick on this link)
Supervisor:
Frank
Bertoldi
t14) Detection
of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation
Function of
SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
D. Eisenstein et al.
(astro-ph/0501171)
Supervisor:
Peter
Schneider
15) The Low Frequency Array: LOFAR
Supervisor:
Juergen Kerp
Supervisor: Klaas de
Boer
Supervisor:
Philipp Richter
Pavel
Kroupa
E-mail: Pavel
K.