Current Courses

ASTR 5400, Intro to Fluid Dynamics (Core, 1st year)
Instructor: Cranmer
Room: E126
10:10a-11:00a

ASTR 5550, Obs & Stats (Core, 1st year)
Instructor: da Silva Santos
Room: E126
1:25p-2:15p

ASTR 5710, High Energy Astrophysics (Elective)
Instructor: Dexter
Room: E126
9:05a-9:55a

ASTR 5835, Seminar in Planetary Sciences: The coronal cooling problem 
Instructor: Rast
Room: E126
3:25-4:15p (W)

Description: While the source of heating for the solar and stellar coronas is often the focus of attention, with any heating, the million degree corona is a direct result of the lack of efficient cooling there.  In this seminar we will read relevant papers and, based on them, write python code to explore the heating/cooling balance in a one dimensional static corona.  We will also model the solar wind, examining sensitivity of the Parker wind solution to the coronal temperature, focusing on some recent work aiming to recover the solar wind acceleration profiles observed by the Parker Solar Probe.   

Electives outside of the APS Department must be submitted to julie.comerford@colorado.edu for approval. 

Historical courses offerings can be found at classes.colorado.edu.

ASTR 5300, Intro to Magnetospheres (Elective)
Instructor: Ergun
Room: D142
9:30a-10:45a (T/Th)

ASTR 5830, Topics in Planetary Science: Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces and Atmospheres (Elective)
Instructor: Hayne
Room: E126
2:00p-3:15p (T/Th)

ASTR 6000, Seminar in Astrophysics: Black Holes vs. Galaxies
Instructor: Begelman/Nelson
Room: G126
4:00p-4:50p (Th)

Description: With the remarkable capabilities of JWST in the infrared, we have uncovered a large population of "little red dots" which have begun to change the way we understand the early growth of galaxies and supermassive black holes. These enigmatic, high redshift objects resemble accreting supermassive black holes in some respects and star-forming galaxies in others, but don't seem to fit squarely into either category.  We will read and discuss a selection of papers describing key observational results, early attempts to model and explain these objects theoretically, and their implications for our understanding of the early universe.