- Docente: Andrea Cimatti
- Credits: 3
- SSD: FIS/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mathematics (cod. 8010)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide a general view of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Course contents
- Stars: classification and the HR diagram
- The Sun as a star. The age of Sun.
- The structure and physics of stars
- From the birth to the death of stars (stellar evolution)
- Variable stars
- Stellar populations
- Stellar clusters
- Our Galaxy (The Milky Way)
- The interstellar medium
- Galaxies: classification and properties
- Active galaxies (AGN)
- Cosmology and the Big bang model
- The expansion of the Universe and the fossil radiation.
- The mystery of dark matter
- The mystery of dark energy
- The cosmic distance ladder
Readings/Bibliography
“Essentials of Astronomy” Lloyd Motz & Anneta
Duveen
Columbia University Press
“Fundamental Astronomy” H. Karttunen, P. Kroger, H. Oja, M.
Poutanen, K.J. Donne
r. Springer
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Powerpoint slides and traditional blackboard.
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Cimatti