6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4012749ENR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
Department
Physics
Educational team
Dany Vanbeveren (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Observations of stars with similar spectral characteristics are linkted to theoretical evolutionary phases of single stars and of binaries. We investigate how to calculte theoretical fractions of stars with similar characteristics and we discuss the influence of physical parameters that critically affect the theoretical predictions. The predictions are then compared to the most recent observations. Finally, we discuss how the various types of stars and stellar populations affect the evolution of galaxies (chemical evolution) and we distinguish elliptical galaxies (single starburst galaxies) and spiral galaxies where starformation proceeds continuously in time.

Course material
Course text (Required) : Evolution of Stars and Stellar Systems, Eigen cursusteksten (Engelstalig)
Additional info

Course text and review papers

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

To acquire sufficient knowledge in order to start a masterthesis or a PhD within the research group of the Theoretical Astrophysics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Indeed, the main research subject of the group is the study of large groups of stars, how they evolve, how they contribute to the overal evolution of galaxies.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
LEC Teamwork determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Mondeling examen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the LEC Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Permanente evaluatie with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral exam and permanent evaluation during the lectures.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Research
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Economy and Business
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Education
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: fysica (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)