Astrophysical Data Analysis

Lecture log

Academic year 2023/2024
Lecturer Stefano Carniani, Simona Gallerani

Lecture

  • 23 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Introduction to ground- and space-based telescopes; angular resolution; diffraction- and seeing-limited images; detectors and pillars of data reduction

  • 25 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Data in astrophysics; definition of intrinsic and observed flux density; astronomical filters and transmission curves; Lyman break technique; FITS (flexible Image transport system) files

  • 30 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Application to Lyman Break Technique to HST and JWST data, definition of apparent and absolute magnitude

  • 01 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Luminosity function, spectroscopy in astrophysics, spectrograph, grating and prism properties

  • 06 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Spectroscopic analysis, hands-on session on redshift, flux, and luminosity determination from spectroscopic data

  • 08 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Emission lines tracing interstellar medium in galaxies; permitted and forbidden lines; spectroscopic data in the optical band

  • 13 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Determination of galaxy and gas properties from spectroscopic data

  • 15 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    2D and 3D spectroscopic data in astrophysics; limits of current experimental program; future facilities

  • 20 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Performing kinematic analysis on 3D data cube

  • 22 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Spectral energy fitting, stellar population, initial mass function, and star formation history

  • 03 May 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    The importance of numerical simulations for the interpretation of observations - Pros and Cons of numerical simulations - How to choose a numerical simulation - Ingredients of numerical simulations: Cosmological background + Initial conditions

  • 10 May 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Ingredients of numerical simulations: Dark matter (particle-particle + particle-mesh schemes)

  • 17 May 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Ingredients of numerical simulations: Baryons + Cooling processes (in ionized, neutral and molecular gases)

  • 21 May 2024 (3h 00m)

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

    Ingredients of numerical simulations: star formation Hands-on on SPH simulations: visualization of dark matter particle positions

  • 24 May 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    Analysis of SPH simulations: visualization of gas and star particles, metallicity; profiles of DM, baryons and stars

  • 30 May 2024 (3h 00m)

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

    Profiles of DM, baryons and stars at different redshifts and in different simulations; The gas equation; Maps of the star formation rate; Black hole physics: seeding

  • 31 May 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    BH physics: accretion, feedback, merging; visualization of cosmological simulations including BH physics: "AGNcone", "AGNsphere", "AGNfid" from Barai et al. 2018, and Valentini et al. 2021

  • 06 Jun 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    AGN feedback effect on the host galaxy properties: comparison between simulations without feedback and simulations with different AGN feedback recipes

  • 07 Jun 2024 (2h 00m)

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

    computation of the [CII] emission line post-processing hydro-simulations with PDR RT calculations