Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313861 High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology | OT | 0 | 2 |
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The course is intended to acquaint students with the basic concepts about galaxies and extragalactic astronomy research in general.
We want to present the students how we have been learning about the galaxy properties throughout the years to reach our current understanding of galaxy formation and evolution and what the current lines of research are nowadays.
Lectures and exercises.
Classwork and homework.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 1, 3 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Exercises, presentations, discussion, literature work | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 1, 3 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study of lectures material | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 1, 3 |
This subject/module does not foresee the single assessment system.
Exam, homework, oral presentation and summary of seminar material.
Resit exam.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Exam | 50% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 3 |
Homework exercises | 20% | 8 | 0.32 | 2, 1, 3 |
Oral presentation | 20% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 1, 3 |
Resit exam | 50% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 3 |
Summary of seminar material | 10% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 3 |
"Galactic Astronomy", Binney and Merrifield, PrincetonUniversity Press, 1998
"Galactic Dynamics", Binney and Tremaine, Princeton University Press, 1987
"Galaxy Formation and Evolution", Ho, van den Bosch and White, Cambridge University Press, 2010
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