ASTR701 Astronomy: From History to Frontier History of astronomy, the development of astronomy, modern astronomy, controversial in astronomy and astronomy in the next decade. (click to download pdf) |
ASTR702
Celestial Mechanics Celestial sphere, coordinate systems and coordinate transformations, the two body problem for celestial mechanics and introduction to N-body problems. |
ASTR703 Observational Astronomy Observational astronomy in multi-wavebands, properties of telescopes and scientific instruments, basic reduction for astronomical data, and basic analysis in astrometry, photometry and spectroscopy. |
ASTR704 Planetary Science The formation of the solar system, planets-primordial atmospheres and hydrodynamic escape, terrestrial planets: general concept, terrestrial planets: Venus, Mercury, and Mars, giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, planetary satellites and dwarf planets, asteroid, comets, and Trans-Neptunian objects. |
ASTR705 Stellar Astrophysics 1 Physics in stellar atmospheres, the structure of stars, pre main sequence stellar evolution and post main sequence stellar evolution.(click to download pdf) |
ASTR706 Stellar Astrophysics 2 Stellar pulsation, stellar remnants and binary star systems. (click to download pdf) |
ASTR707 Galactic Astronomy Our own galaxy: the Milky Way, properties of galaxies and formation and evolution of galaxies. |
ASTR708 Interstellar Medium Interstellar medium, interstellar gas, interstellar dust heating, cooling, and phases of interstellar medium, distribution of interstellar medium, stability of interstellar medium and origin and fate of interstellar medium. |
ASTR709 Physics of Solar System Physics of solar system explains plasma in space, interaction between unmagnetized bodies and solar wind, interaction between planet’s magnetic field with solar wind, planetary magnetosphere, dynamic of plasma in magnetosphere, plasma in planetary atmosphere and space weather and earth climate (click to download pdf) |
ASTR710 Computational Astrophysics Computation, root of an equation, matrix operation, ordinary differential equation, partial differential equation, numerical integration, Monte Carlo simulation, computational astrophysics project, approximation of function, spectral analysis and optimization(click to download pdf) |
ASTR711 High-energy Astrophysics Particles acceleration and radiative processes, pulsing sources,accretion disks, x-ray binaries, bursting stars, supermassive black holes, the high-energy backgroundandobservation of high-energy astrophysics phenomena. (click to download pdf) |
ASTR789 Selected Topics in Astronomy and Astrophysics Presentation of selected topics from current interest in Astronomy and Astrophysics. |
ASTR801 Cosmology History of Universe, structure of the Universe, active galaxies, quasars, classical cosmology theory, radiation dominated and matter-dominated universe, cosmic microwave background radiation and dark matter and dark energy. (click to download pdf) |
ASTR802 Stellar Stability Time scales, the general equations of the stellar structure, linear stability analysis, dynamical stability, vibrational stability, thermal instability, non-radial oscillations, and helioseismology |
ASTR803 Advanced Technique for Astronomical Research Astronomical image processing, extracting sky objects, flux and magnitude measurements and sources of errors, photometry of extended sources and graphics subroutine application. |
ASTR804 Astronomical Spectroscopy Quantum mechanics in astronomical spectroscopy,atomic spectral lines,molecular spectral lines, statistical mechanics in astronomical spectroscopy,atomic and molecular excitation, lines shapes, thermal and non thermal radiative processes, radiation through astronomical mediaandspectroscopic instruments. |
ASTR805 Cosmic Gas Dynamics Physics of fluid: definition, the hydrodynamic equations, ideal fluids, fluids instabilities, viscous flows- transport of momentum, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). |
ASTR806 Radio Astronomy Radio Astronomical Fundamentals, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Fundamentals, Wave Polarization, Signal Processing and Receivers: Theory, Practical Receiver Systems, Fundamentals of Antenna Theory, Practical Aspects of Filled Aperture Antennas, Single Dish Observational Methods, Interferometers and Aperture Synthesis |
ASTR807 Cosmic Rays Introduction, particle physics, origins of cosmic rays, propagation of cosmic rays, atmospheric shower, cosmic rays measurements and relevant research topics (click to download pdf) |
ASTR889 Advance Selected Topics in Astronomy and Astrophysics Presentation of selected topics from current interest in astronomy and astrophysics |
ASTR891 Ph.D.Seminar in Astronomy 1 Presentation and discussion by students about published astronomy research leading to their proposed research topics. |
ASTR892 Ph.D.Seminar in Astronomy 2 Presentation and discussion by students in topics related to their research study. |
ASTR893 Ph.D.Seminar in Astronomy 3 Presentation and discussion by students in topics related to their research study. |