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Courses recommended for Astronomy and Astrophysics Honours in 2006
Important Dates:
1st semester 2006: 20 February - 2 June
2nd Semester 2006: 17 July - 27 October
Please note that some of the 1st semester honours courses may run slightly into the teaching free period between 5 June and 14 July.
For the Honours degree, students have to take 6 courses in total. This can be either all six courses offered by RSAA (see below) or equivalent honours courses from Geology, Physics or Math.
A minimum of three courses offered by RSAA have to be taken.
Course work counts 50% towards the final honours mark.
Starting date: 21st February
Time table: every Tuesday at 9.30am-10:30am and 11:30am-12:30pm. Every Thursday at 9.30am-10:30am and 11:30am-12:30pm. Final course date 21. March.
Venue: Woolley Seminar Room, RSAAAssessment: 1 assignments (due dates TBD), 1 essay on an interstellar physics topic (6-8 pages). A 20 min talk given to peer students at the end of the course
Starting date: 2nd Semester 2006 (24 July to 9 August)
Lectures are on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On each day there is a lecture at 2pm, then break for afternon tea at 3pm, before resuming 3.30 - 4.30.
24- 26 July, Paul
31 July - 2 August, Trevor
7 - 9 August, Charley
Venue: Duffield Lecture Theater, RSAA, Mt Stromlo Observatory
Assessment: TBD
For details, contact Charley Lineweaver
Starting date: First half of 2nd Semester
Times and Venue: TBD, for venue details click *here*
Assessment: assignments
Syllabus: Galaxies: classification and dynamics. luminous matter and dark matter in galaxies. Text book: Galaxy Dynamics (Binney & Tremaine)
For details, contact Ken Freeman
Starting date: Second half of 2nd Semester
Times and Venue: TBD, for venue details click *here*
Assessment: assignments
Syllabus: The expanding universe and cosmological models.
For details, contact Brian Schmidt
1st Semester
Starting date: 1 March
Two lectures per week (10 lectures in total), 2pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday afternoons
Venue: Duffield Lecture Theater or Woolley Seminar Room, RSAA
Assessment: 3 assignments
Syllabus:
For details, contact Peter Wood
1st Semester
Program: two lectures a week (10-12AM on Wednesdays and one Friday) from March 22 to May 24
Lectures:
March 22, Wednesday, 10-12am, Introduction, radiative processes
March 24, Friday, 10-12am, Radiative transfer
March 29, Wednesday, 10-12am, Model atmospheres
April 5, Wednesday, 10-12am, Spectral line formation
April 12, Wednesday, 10-12am, Non-LTE spectral line formation
April 26, Wednesday, 10-12am, Stellar parameters
May 3, Wednesday, 10-12am, 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres and line formation
May 17, Wednesday, 10-12am, Stellar winds
May 24, Wednesday, 10-12am, Solar atmospheric phenomena
Venue: Duffield Lecture Theater or Woolley Seminar Room, RSAA
Assessment: two assignments, one problem set and one computer exercise, both due May 31
Syllabus: Radiation properties, radiative transfer, stellar model atmospheres, stellar parameters, spectral line formation, elemental abundance determinations, stellar convection, stellar winds, chromospheres, coronae, magnetic phenomena (activity, sunspots, flares, prominences etc)
Course reading: David Gray's "The observations and analysis of stellar photospheres" (ISBN 0 521 40868 7) Rob Rutten's "Radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres" (available from here )
For more details, contact Martin Asplund
For all details (starting date, venue, assessment etc.) see the webpage of GEOL3022 or contact Ross Taylor
For details contact Alan Welsh from the Department of Mathematics.
Last updated: January 2006.
Maintainer: Helmut Jerjen (RSAA Honours Convener)