Unsere Milchstrasse und Galaxien

Friday, 14:15 - 16:00, ARI seminarroom

For the first dates, you can already choose a topic earlier in order to have sufficient time for preparing  your presentation.

For the selection and more details please contact the supervisor.

Direct Links to the topics of A. Just and G. van de Ven

The following lecture books can be used for basic and additional information.

1. UB: Der neue Kosmos, Unsöld, Baschek, Springer 2002 (Deutsch oder Englisch)
2. PS: Extragalaktische Astonomie und Kosmologie, P. Schneider, Springer, 2006 (Deutsch oder Englisch)
3. BM: Galactic Astronomy, Binney, Merrifield, Princeton, 1998
4. BT: Galactic Dynamics, Binney, Tremaine, Princeton, 2008

The author abbreviations and sections are noted for the corresponding topics below.

Supervisor: A. Just

• J1. Open Star Clusters
  Literatur: UB 9.; Kharchenko et al. (2013): Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way II
• J2. Thin and Thick Disc decomposition
  Literatur: Ivezic et al. (2012): Galactic Stellar Populations in the Era of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Other Large Surveys, Sect.5

• J3. (taken) Galactic Rotation Curve
  Literatur:PS 2.4.2; Sofue (2009):Unified Rotation Curve of the Galaxy

• J4. (taken) The supermassive Black Hole in the Galactic Centre
  Literatur:PS 2.6.3-5; Melia & Falcke (2001): The Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center
• J5. Asymmetric Drift and Solar Motion
  Literatur: PS 2.4.1; BM 10.3; Jaschek & Valbousquet (1991):  The solar motion. I - From radial velocities
• J6. (taken) Origin of the Local Bubble
  Literatur: Berghöfer und Breitschwerdt (2002): The origin of the young stellar population in the solar neighborhood -- A link to the formation of the Local Bubble?; Fuchs et al. (2006): The search for the origin of the Local Bubble redivivus
• J7. (taken) Neutral Atomic Gas (HI) in the Milky Way
  Literatur: Kalberla & Kerp (2009): The Hi Distribution of the Milky Way
• J8. (taken) The Crab Nebula
  Literatur: Hester (2008): The Crab Nebula: An Astrophysical Chimera
• J9. Star Formation in the Milky Way as a Spiral Galaxy
  Literatur: Kennicut & Evans (2012): Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
• J10. The Local Group
  Literatur: PS 6.1
• J11. Scaling Relations of Galaxies
  Literatur: PS 3.4

Supervisor: G. van de Ven

• V1. (taken) Missing satellites problem
  Literatur: Kravtsov (2010): Dark Matter Substructure and Dwarf Galactic Satellites
• V2. Galactic Globular Clusters
  Literatur: Gratton, Carretta & Bragaglia (2012): Multiple populations in globular clusters. Lessons learned from the Milky Way globular clusters
• V3. Tidal stellar streams
  Literatur: Belokurov et al. (2006): The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings
• V4. Milky Way stellar halo
  Literatur: Bell et al. (2008): The Accretion Origin of the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
• V5. Milky Way bulge
  Literatur: Wegg & Gerhard (2013): Mapping the three-dimensional density of the Galactic bulge with VVV red clump stars
• V6. Supernovae remnants
  Literatur: Reynolds (2008): Supernova Remnants at High Energy
• V7. (taken) Collision Milky Way and Andromeda
  Literatur: van der Marel et al. (2012): The M31 Velocity Vector. III. Future Milky Way M31-M33 Orbital Evolution, Merging, and Fate of the Sun
• V8 (taken) Stellar initial mass function 
  Literatur: Bastian, Covey & Meyer (2010): A Universal Stellar Initial Mass Function? A Critical Look at Variations
• V9 Black hole scaling relations
  Literatur: Tremaine et al. (2002): The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation
• V10 (taken) Spiral rotation curves
  Literatur: Persic, Salucci & Stel (1996): The universal rotation curve of spiral galaxies - I. The dark matter connection
• V11: Star formation rate
  Literatur: Kennicutt (1998): Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence
• V12: Blue to red galaxy evolution
  Literatur: Faber et al. (2007): Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for Red Galaxy Formation

Practice groups

• Group A
  11 participants