Frontiers of Cosmology and Astrophysics

Lecture log

Academic year 2023/2024
Lecturer Stefano Carniani, Simona Gallerani

Lecture

  • 10 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Prima lezione: Pillars of the Standard Cosmological model; Expansion of the Universe (Cepheids, SN Ia, quasars)

  • 17 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Seconda lezione: The Cosmic Microwave background (origin and statistics); Polarization constrains on Cosmic Reionization

  • 24 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Terza lezione: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  • 31 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Quarta lezione: Absorption spectra as tools for studying the intergalactic medium; The Gunn and Peterson test

  • 07 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Quinta lezione: Absorption spectra as tools for studying the cosmic reionization process; redshift evolution of the GP optical depth

  • 14 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Sesta lezione: Absorption spectra as tools for studying the cosmic reionization process; proximity effect and damping wings

  • 21 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Settima lezione: The Lyman Break technique; constraints on the reionization from the UV luminosity function.

  • 28 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Ottava lezione: Lyman alpha emitting galaxies; far infrared emission lines from galaxies in the EOR

  • 06 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Nona lezione: Detection and identification of high-z quasars; BH mass measurements (Reverberation mapping technique); properties of the ISM in the host galaxies (FIR emission lines)

  • 07 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduzione all'astrofisica extragalattica, componenti principali di una galassia, equilibrio idrostatico, dinamica del gas, stelle, e materia oscura

  • 13 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Decima Lezione: Seeding models; contribution of AGN to reionization; constraints from the HeII Lya forest

  • 14 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Gas and stellar dynamics; collisionless systems; application of Boltzmann and Jeans equations in astrophysics

  • 20 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Galaxy formation; shock heating; cooling processes.

  • 21 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Galaxy formation: heating processes; overcooling problem; stellar-to-halo mass ratio; introduction to interstellar medium and molecular cloud

  • 27 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    properties of giant molecular clouds, isothermal sphere, instabilities, Toomre Q parameter, parameter star formation processes, star formation law

  • 28 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    initial mass function; spectroscopic properties of stars; stellar populations in galaxies; definition of star-formation rate; bi-modality distribution in the SFR-Mstar diagram

  • 03 Apr 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Inter-stellar medium properties; HII regions; neutral and molecular gas; dust properties

  • 11 Apr 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Super-massive black holes; active galactic nuclei; BPT digram, spectroscopic properties of AGN; reverberation mapping; unified model

  • 18 Apr 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Accretion disk; thin disk model; emission; accretion disk size

  • 24 Apr 2024 (2h 00m)

    Stefano Carniani - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Galaxy-SMBH co-evolution; AGN feedback; Eddington limit; radiation pressure; properties of galactic scale outflows