Department of Physics

10ΥΚ103 Astrophysics Laboratory

Course webpage:   https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS242

Course outline

Course content

• Introduction: Photometry, spectroscopy, interferometry, particle detection, MATLAB.
• Two (2) out of the following five (5) exercises:
• Determination of the mass of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
• Gerostathopoulio Observatory.
• Radio.
• Χ – γ rays.
• Van Allen belts: Variability of energetic electrons and electromagnetic oscillations in Earth’s magnetosphere.
• Laboratory project and presentation.