Astronomy 1100-3N21
Programm:
Astronomical observations
1. Sources of information on Universe - electromagnetic radiation, influence of atmosphere, dust, metorites,nutrinos, gravitational waves.
2. Modern telescopes and detectors.
3. Observational methods (astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, interferometry, polarimetry)
Spherical Astronomy
4. Astronomical co-ordinate systems on the celestial sphere
- horizontal, equatorial I, equatorial II, ecliptic, galactic, other.
5. Diurnal motion of the celestial sphere;
- description using different co-ordinate systems.
6. Spherical trigonometry
- equations; parallactic triangle, co-ordinate conversions, other examples;
7. Time and calendar
- sidereal time, diurnal and annual sun's path; solar time - apparent, mean, zone.
- year: tropical, sidereal; moon motion; month: sidereal, synodic, other.
Cosmography - Astronomical objects
8. Distances, sizes, location - Solar System, stars, Milky Way, galaxies, isotropy, quasars, cosmic microwave background radiation.
9.Planets and their structure, moons, planetiods, dust, solar wind
10. Earth as a planet
11. Solar and lunar eclipses - conditions
12. Mechanics of planetary systems - 2-body problem, laws of dynamics, center of mass, Kepler laws, parabolic, elliptic, hiperbolic orbits.
Stellar astronomy
13. Stellar radiation -
magnitudes; EM radiation: intensity, energy flux, luminosity; black body
14. Stars - masses, sizes, temperatures, luminosity, chemical composition,flux, energy sources, stellar interior structure, evolution; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes.
15. Stellar systems - binary, clusters
16. Interstellar matter - gas, its components, dust, magnetic fields.
17. Galactic structure - stellar subsystems, motions of the stars
18. Morphology of galaxies (E,S,S0,Ir); activity (radiogalaxies, Seyferts, quasars)
19. systems of galaxies - Local Group, galaxy clusters, superclusters, voids.
20. Universe - Hubble law, thermal evolution of Universe, primordial nucleosynthesis, microwave radiation
Main fields of studies for MISMaP
Course coordinators
Bibliography
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