ASTM13 Dynamical astronomy (7.5 hp)

Documents and resources for the course

This page contains links to various documents, programs and data sets used in the course.

Hipgal is a PC program for extracting data from the Hipparcos Catalogue.

• A zipped archive (~4.5 MB) with files for installing hipgal is found here (extract and run setup.exe).
• A brief manual to the program is found here.

MATLAB is the main program used for calculations:

• Information (in Swedish) about the availability of MATLAB for students at Lund University
• MATLAB tutorial

Project descriptions (pdf files):

P0 - Preparatory exercises (data for the Coma Cluster here)

P1 - The solar motion

P2 - Oort's constants

P3 - Galactic orbits (space velocities for 2086 stars in the solar neighbourhood here. Format: one line per star with Hip#, U, V, W [km/s] relative to the Sun)

P4 - Velocity dispersion and asymmetric drift

P5 - The local mass density

Note: P3 should actually be made after P4.

Examination:
A set of questions was posted posted here on Monday, 4 Jan 2010. Answers
The answers should be handed in to Lennart (by e-mail or paper) by Sunday, 10 Jan (evening).

Lennart Lindegren (046-22 27309), lennart@astro.lu.se

Melvyn B. Davies (046-22 21568), mbd@astro.lu.se

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Last modified: Monday, 4 Jan 2010