Seminar der Astrophysik / The Astrophysics Seminar
SS 2012.

(http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~reiprich/lectures/sem.html)

Course #6961   /  module astro894

Elective Seminar for the Master of Astrophysics, 4 credit points

Wahlpflichtseminar in Experimentalphysik (Hauptstudium)


Mondays, 14:00 - 15:30, HS Astronomy, room 0.012, AIfA, Auf dem Hügel 71.
Presentation of topics with all participants begins Monday, April 2, 2012 at 14:00.
Supervision: astronomy lecturers and group leaders.
Organizaton: Thomas Reiprich.

About:
This is the primary seminar for Master of Astrophysics students.

Topics:
Each student selects a topic, on which they will report. 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, please contact your supervisor ahead of time!

Quality of Talks:
This may 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.
 Afer your talk, your supervisor will provide feedback on the scientific content as well as on your presentation style.

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 (Master of Astrophysics students). The corresponding certificate ("Schein" for Diplom Physik students)  is awarded if the
student  (a) attends the seminars of the other students and (b) gives a successful presentation.
The certificate can be picked up in the office of Ms. Ellen Vasters on the third floor (room 3.004, phone 73-3676) at the
end of the semester.

Schedule:
Date Topic Speaker Supervisor
02.04.2012 Presentation of topics T. Reiprich et al. -
16.04. ... ... ...
23.04. ... ... ...
30.04. ... ... ...
07.05. Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals: Correlated Deviations from the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation / Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Formation of Orion-Like Star Clusters II. The Initial Mass Function from Winds, Turbulence, and Radiation Patrick Lieberz / Matthias Kruckow Pavel Kroupa
14.05. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic survey: measurements of the growth of structure and expansion rate at z=0.57 from anisotropic clustering / Cold gas accretion by high-velocity clouds and their connection to QSO absorption-line system Nick Gupta / Maja Kierdorf Cristiano Porciani / Nadya Ben Bekhti
21.05. Extended Star Clusters in the Remote Halo of the Intriguing Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822 / Polar ring galaxies Katharina Sendlinger / Yasna Ordenes Iskren Georgiev
04.06. A Study of the Dark Core in A520 with the Hubble Space Telescope: The Mystery Deepens / High-velocity clouds as streams of ionized and neutral gas in the halo of the Milky Way Sophia Thoelken / Ashley Bemis Thomas Reiprich / Nadya Ben Bekhti
11.06. Expanded Search for z ~ 10 Galaxies from HUDF09, ERS, and CANDELS Data: Evidence for Accelerated Evolution at z > 8? / Scaling relations for galaxy clusters in the Millennium-XXL simulation Dominik Klaes / Renate Wollmann Peter Schneider
18.06. Galaxy clusters discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the first 720 square degrees of the South Pole Telescope survey Rishikesh Pandit Thomas Reiprich
25.06. HI in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and Stripping by the Galactic Halo / A Radio-loud Magnetar in X-ray Quiescence + The braking index of PSR J1734-3333 and the magnetar population Corinne Fletcher/ Oliver Lux Juergen Kerp / Thomas Tauris
02.07. Production and evolution of Li, Be and B isotopes in the Galaxy / Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution Toma Badescu / Pienpen Seema Robert Izzard / Pavel Kroupa
09.07. Planck early results. VIII. The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample / A catalog of 132,684 clusters of galaxies identified from Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Madalina Badea / Saikrishan Sreenivasan Kaustuv Basu / Thomas Reiprich

Topics will be introduced by the supervisors
on the first (organizational) meeting (April 2), but can be offered already during the
vacation period. If you choose 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 (be sure to check in the table above that the topic has not yet been taken):

  1. Is the common envelope ejection efficiency a function of the binary parameters?,
    Davis, Kolb and Knigge, Accepted for publication in MNRAS,
    paper,
    supervisor: Robert Izzard

  2. Planck early results. VIII. The all-sky early Sunyaev-Zeldovich cluster sample,
    Planck Collaboration; Ade et al.,
    paper,
    supervisor: Kaustuv Basu

  3. Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Formation of Orion-Like Star Clusters II. The Initial Mass Function from Winds, Turbulence, and Radiation,
    Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein and Christopher F. McKee, submitted to ApJ. For movies of the results, see http://www.ucolick.org/~krumholz/downloads.html,
    paper,
    supervisor: Pavel Kroupa,
    unavailable 18.06.-22.06.2012

  4. Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution,
    Jim Peebles, Adi Nusser, 2010, Nature, 465, 565,
    paper,
    supervisor: Pavel Kroupa,
    unavailable 18.06.-22.06.2012

  5. Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals: Correlated Deviations from the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation,
    McGaugh, Stacy S.; Wolf, Joe, 2010, ApJ, 722, 248,
    paper,
    supervisor: Pavel Kroupa,
    unavailable 18.06.-22.06.2012

  6. A Radio-loud Magnetar in X-ray Quiescence + The braking index of PSR J1734-3333 and the magnetar population,
    L. Levin et al. (2010), ApJL, 721, L33-37 + C.M. Espinoza et al. (2011), ApJL, in press,
    paper 1, paper 2,
    supervisor: Thomas Tauris,
    unavailable Apr.10-Apr.14, June.12-15

  7. High-velocity clouds as streams of ionized and neutral gas in the halo of the Milky Way,
    N. Lehner, J.C. Howk, C. Thom, A.J. Fox, J. Tumlinson, T.M. Tripp, J.D. Meiring, submitted to MNRAS,
    paper,
    supervisor: Nadya Ben Bekhti

  8. Cold gas accretion by high-velocity clouds and their connection to QSO absorption-line system,
    Phillip Richter, ApJ,
    paper,
    supervisor: Nadya Ben Bekhti

  9. Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Sodium Absorption Features,
    Sternberg, Gal-Yam & Simon et al., Science 333, 856 (2011),
    paper,
    supervisor: Sung-Chul Yoon

  10. Superorbital Modulation of X-Ray Emission from Gamma-Ray Binary LSI +61 303,
    Chernyakova et al. 2012,
    paper,
    supervisor: Maria Massi

  11. Expanded Search for z ~ 10 Galaxies from HUDF09, ERS, and CANDELS Data: Evidence for Accelerated Evolution at z > 8?,
    Oesch, P. A.; Bouwens, R. J.; Illingworth, G. D. et al. 2012, ApJ 745, 110,
    paper,
    supervisor: Peter Schneider
    unavailable 23.4., 4.6., 25.6.

  12. Scaling relations for galaxy clusters in the Millennium-XXL simulation,
    Angulo, R. E.; Springel, V.; White, S. D. M.; Jenkins, A.; Baugh, C. M.; Frenk, C. S., arXiv:1203.3216,
    paper,
    supervisor: Peter Schneider
    unavailable 23.4., 4.6., 25.6.

  13. Extended Star Clusters in the Remote Halo of the Intriguing Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822,
    N. Hwang, M. G. Lee, J. C. Lee, W.-K. Park, H. S. Park, S. C. Kim, J.-H. Park, 2011ApJ...738...58H,
    paper,
    supervisor: Iskren Georgiev

  14. Polar ring galaxies,
    Moiseev, A.; Smirnova, K.; Smirnova, Aleksandrina A.; Reshetnikov, Vladimir P.,
    paper,
    supervisor: Iskren Georgiev

  15. Head-Tail Clouds: Drops to Probe the Diffuse Galactic Halo,
    Putman, Saul & Mets, MNRAS, 418, 1575
    paper,
    supervisor: Juergen Kerp

  16. H I in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and Stripping by the Galactic Halo,
    Grcevich, Putman (2009), ApJ 696, 385
    paper,
    supervisor: Juergen Kerp

  17. Spectroscopic Constraints on the Form of the Stellar Cluster Mass Function,
    Bastian, Nate et al., A&A, in press,
    paper,
    supervisor: Jan Pflamm-Altenburg

  18. Galaxy clusters discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the first 720 square degrees of the South Pole Telescope survey,
    Reichardt et al., submitted to ApJ
    paper,
    supervisor: Thomas Reiprich
    unavailable 30.4., 14.05., 25.6.

  19. A Study of the Dark Core in A520 with the Hubble Space Telescope: The Mystery Deepens,
    Jee et al., 2012, ApJ, 747, 96
    paper,
    supervisor: Thomas Reiprich
    unavailable 30.4., 14.05., 25.6.

  20. Production and evolution of Li, Be and B isotopes in the Galaxy,
    N. Prantzos,
    paper,
    supervisor: Robert Izzard

Last modified: Thu Jun 14 08:23:40 CEST 2012