Course Details

Subject {L-T-P / C} : PH5071 : Computational Astrophysics Laboratory { 1-0-3 / 3}

Subject Nature : Practical

Coordinator : Prof. Ananta Charan Pradhan

Syllabus

1. Familiarity with Telescope.
2. Information about the astronomical objects from the spectra and image.
3. Identification of important lines in the spectra and determination of Doppler shift and radial velocity of an object.
4. Determination of ultraviolet extinction curve of a star using pair method.
5. Familiarity with Constellations using Stellerium.
6. Determination of retrograde motion of planets.
7. To measure the distance to the moon using parallax method.
8. To measure the distances of planets in our solar System.
9. To measure the proper motion of Barnard's star.
10. Study of solar spectrum and determination of element abundances.
11. Determination of distance and age of star cluster using color-magnitude diagram.
12. Determination of Hubble’s constant and the age of the Universe using spectra and image of a sample of galaxies.
Prerequisite(s): PH 6117 (Introduction to Astrophysics)

Course Objectives

Course Outcomes

Produce some of the astrophysical results using already existing archival data

Essential Reading

Supplementary Reading