Seminar der Astrophysik / The Astrophysics Seminar

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

Course #6961   (WS 2006/2007)

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 23rd 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
 Subject
 Speaker
 Supervisor
23.10.06
 Presentation of topics
 P.Kroupa et al.

30.10.



06.11.


13.11.
 5) The Pioneer Anomaly: "What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly?"
 		Adam Fallon
Kroupa
20.11
 7)  "How to make a massive star" Naemi Leo
 Preibisch
27.11
 2) " Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function from Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center " Jaroslava Schovancova
 Baumgardt
04.12
 10)  "Hypervelocity stars: Greetings from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way?"

6) Young  star  clusters:
"Relations Between the Luminosity, Mass, and Age Distributions of Young Star Clusters"
 		Khoi Nguyen Nguyen


Magdalena Otulakowska
Schneider



Kroupa
11.12.
 13)  "Dwarf spheroidal galaxies and dark matter" Quang Nguyen Luong Biermann
18.12.
 3) "A year at Saturn - The view from Cassini" Elisabeth Krause
 Bird
25.12.
 Christmas
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01.01.07
 New Year
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08.01.
 9)  "The bullet cluster: A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter"

14)  "Water maser emission in eight AGNs with the 70m antennas of NASAs deep space network"
 		Marja Hanussek

Arkadiusz Hypki

 Schneider

Kerp
15.01.
 15)  "The Kuiper Belt, and why Pluto is no longer a Planet" Milena Huhnen-Venedey
 Bertoldi
22.01.
 12)  "Galaxy evolution at redshifts 7 - 10" Alina Istrate
 Biermann
29.01.
 16)  "Extended inverse Compton emission from distant powerfull radio galaxies" Tobias Troost
 Klein
05.02.
 11)  "The Riddle of Cooling Flows and Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy  Cluster " Michael Sokaliwska
 Reiprich


Subjects will be presented by the supervisors (please contact them)
on the first (organizational) meeting (October 23rd), 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) Stellar Coronae:  "Starspots: A Key to the Stellar Dynamo"
S. Berdyugina 2005 Living Review in Solar Physiscs v. 2 n. 8
Supervisor: Maria Massi

t2) " Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function from Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center "
R.D.Alexander, M.C.Begelman, P.J.Armitage (astro-ph/0609812)
Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

t3) "A year at Saturn - The view from Cassini"
Porco et al., Science 307, 1243-1247, 2005
Supervisor: Michael Bird

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

t5) The Pioneer Anomaly:
"What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly?"
L. Iorio & G. Giudice (gr-qc/0601055)
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
(not on 20.11., 11.12., 18.12.)1) The Pioneer Anomaly:

t6) Young  star  clusters:
 "Relations Between the Luminosity, Mass, and Age Distributions of Young Star Clusters"
Michael Fall (astro-ph/0609201)
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
(not on 20.11., 11.12., 18.12.)

t7)  "How to make a massive star"
Patel et al, 2005, Nature, 437, 109
Beltran et al, 2006, Nature 443, 427 
 Supervisor: Thomas Preibisch
(not on 22.01.07, 29.01.2007)

8)  "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

t9)  "The bullet cluster: A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter"
 "A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter",   D. Clowe et al., 2006, ApJ 648, L109
 "Strong and weak lensing united III: Measuring the mass distribution of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56"
        M. Bradac et al. 2006, astro-ph/0608408
Supervisor: Peter Schneider

t10)  "Hypervelocity stars: Greetings from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way?"
"Hypervelocity Stars. I. The Spectroscopic Survey",  Brown, W. et al., 2006, ApJ 647, 303
" Ejection of hypervelocity stars from the Galactic Centre by intermediate-mass black hole",
        Baumgardt, H. et al., 2006, MNRAS 372, 174
" Production of Hypervelocity Stars through Encounters with Stellar-Mass Black Holes in the Galactic Centre",
       O'Leary, Ryan M.; Loeb, Abraham 2006, astro-ph/0609046
Supervisor: Peter Schneider

t11)  "The Riddle of Cooling Flows and Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy  Cluster "
"Investigating AGN Heating in a Sample of Nearby Clusters", Dunn & Fabian,  astro-ph/0609537
"The Feedback-Regulated Growth of Black Holes and Bulges Through Gas  Accretion and Starbursts in Cluster Central Dominant Galaxies", Rafferty  et al., astro-ph/0605323
Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich

t12)  "Galaxy evolution at redshifts 7 - 10"
Bouwens & Illingworth Sep 14, 2006 Nature
Iye et al. same issue
Supervisor: Peter Biermann

t13)  "Dwarf spheroidal galaxies and dark matter"
Gerry Gilmore et al. ApJ (several papers 2006)
Supervisor: Peter Biermann

t14)  "Water maser emission in eight AGNs with the 70m antennas of NASAs deep space network"
Kondratko et al., 2006, ApJ 638, 100
Supervisor: Juergen Kerp

t15)  "The Kuiper Belt, and why Pluto is no longer a Planet"
The relevant literature
Supervisor: Frank Bertoldi
t16)  "Extended inverse Compton emission from distant powerfull radio galaxies"
Erlund et al. 2006, MNRAS, 371, 29
Supervisor: Ulrich Klein

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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

Supervisor: Maria Massi

Supervisor: Karl Menten

Supervisor: Thomas Preibisch

Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich

Supervisor: Philipp Richter

Supervisor: Peter Schneider

Pavel Kroupa

E-mail: Pavel K.