Rita Tojeiro

Format: 10 classes of 90 minutes each

Contents:
Tools

• Distances and Magnitudes
• Light
• Gravity

Our Galaxy

• Stars
• Stellar evolution
• Star clusters
• Gas and Dust
• The Galaxy's rotation curve

Other galaxies

• Galaxy Morphology
• Galaxy spectra
• Galaxy Dynamics
• Galaxy environment and hierarchical galaxy formation
• Active Galactic Nuclei

Observational Cosmology

• The cosmological principle. Hubble and the expanding universe
• Friedmann's Equation and the critical density
• Cosmic Microwave Background and the Big Bang
• Large scale structure and structure formation
• The Dark Sector: Baryonic Acoustics Oscillations and SNIa.

 

Evaluation: Written exam.