Seminar der Astrophysik / The Astrophysics Seminar

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

Course #6961 (WS09/10) / module astro890

Elective Seminar in Experimental Physics (Advanced Studies), 4 credit points

Wahlpflichtseminar in Experimentalphysik (Hauptstudium)

Mondays, 14 st (14:00) o'clock, HS Astronomy, Auf dem Hügel 71.
(Presentation of topics with all participants begins Monday, October 12th, 2009 (at 14:00) in HS of Astronomy.)
Supervision: astronomy lecturers and group leaders.
Organizaton: Pavel Kroupa (Tel. 73-6140, pavel@astro.uni-bonn.de).

Topics:
Each student selects a topic which he/she will report on. For the list of available topics see below.

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.
Avoid green lines or writing as such lines cannot be seen well through an overhead projector.
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.

Scheine / certificates:
This course is worth 4 credit points. The corresponding certificate ("Schein") is awarded if the
student (a) attends the seminars of the other students and (b) holds a presentation.
The certificate can be picked up in the office of Mrs Elisabeth Danne on the third floor at the
end of the semester.

Schedule:


Date	Subject	Speaker	Supervisor
12.10.09	Presentation of topics	P.Kroupa et al.
19.10.
26.10.
02.11.
09.11.
16.11.
23.11.
30.11.
07.12.	3) The Observed Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters I: Statistical Methods and Cosmological Constraints	Ulrich Feindt	Thomas Reiprich
14.12.
21.12.
28.12.	---	---	---
04.01.10	---	---	---
11.01.
18.01.
25.01.
01.02.

Topics will be introduced by the supervisors (please contact them)
on the first (organizational) meeting (October 12th), 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) "The remnants of galaxy formation from a panoramic survey of the region around M31"
McConnachie et al. 2009, Nature, Volume 461, Issue 7260, pp. 66-69
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Natur.461...66M
Supervisor: Andreass Brunthaler

2) "The IMF of stellar clusters: effects of accretion and feedback"
Dib et al., 2009, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0908.4522D
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
(not available: Nov.26th-Dec.14th 2009)

t3) The Observed Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters I: Statistical Methods and
Cosmological Constraints, Mantz et al., arXiv:0909.3098
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0909.3098M
Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich
(not available: Nov.16th, 2009)


4) The Observed Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters II: X-ray Scaling 
Relations, Mantz et al., arXiv:0909.3099
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0909.3099M
Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich
(not available: Nov.16th, 2009)

5) Cristina Ramos Almeida et al. 2009:
http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2009ApJ...702.1127R
The paper combines both MIR observations of AGN as well as clumpy torus modelling
thus giving a good access to the entire research field of AGN tori.
Supervisor: Konrad R. W. Tristram (MPIfR)

6) Poshak Gandhi et al. 2009
http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/abs/2009A%26A...502..457G
This is a paper on the newly discovered MIR-X-ray correlation for AGN
Supervisor: Konrad R. W. Tristram

7) Gas and dust in the inner disk of the Herbig Ae star MWC 758
A. Isella et al. 2008, A&A 483, L13--L16;
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.3606
Supervisor: Jamin Vural

8) MWC 297: a young high-mass star rotating at critical velocity
B. Acke et al. 2008, A&A 485, 209--221;
http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1212
Supervisor: Alexander Kreplin

9) Supernova 2007bi: the very first known pair instability supernova!
(one Nature paper and one A&A paper about this)
Supervisor: Norbert Langer

10) Discovery of a Relativistic Supernova without a Gamma-Ray Trigger"
Soderberg et al. 2009, arXiv:0908.2817
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0908.2817S
Supervisor: Sung-Chul Yoon

11) Gravitational-wave memory and pulsar timing arrays
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0909.0954V
Supervisor: Michael Kramer

12) Globular Cluster Formation Within The Aquarius Simulation
Griffen et al., 2009, MNRAS in press, arXiv:0910.0310
Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

13) Disc-jet’ coupling in black hole X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei
Fender 2009: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.2572
Supervisor: Maria Massi

14) A glimpse of the end of the dark ages: the gamma-ray burst of 23 April 2009 at redshift 8.3
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0906.1577T
Supervisor: Karl Menten

15) The most massive galaxy cluster at z>1
Supervisor: Christiano Porciani

Tutors:

Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

Supervisor: Frank Bertoldi

Supervisor: Michael Bird

Supervisor: Jonathan Braithwaite

Supervisor: Andreass Brunthaler

Supervisor: Hans Fahr

Supervisor: Sebastian Hoenig

Supervisor: Juergen Kerp

Supervisor: Ulrich Klein

Supervisor: Stefan Kraus

Supervisor: Michael Kramer

Supervisor: Alexander Kreplin

Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa

Supervisor: Norbert Langer

Supervisor: Maria Massi

Supervisor: Karl Menten

Supervisor: Christiano Porciani

Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich

Supervisor: Peter Schneider

Supervisor: Konrad R. W. Tristram

Supervisor: Jamin Vural

Supervisor: Gerd Weigelt

Supervisor: Olaf Wucknitz

Supervisor: Sung-Chul Yoon

Pavel Kroupa

E-mail: Pavel K.