ASTR 4993: Tutorial: X-ray Astronomy and Clusters of Galaxies

Semester

Spring

Year offered

2022

A one-on-one, independent study course on X-ray Astronomy and/or Clusters of Galaxies. Most often, this is a short observational or theoretical research project. Can be one or two semesters.

Contact

Email: sarazin@virginia.edu
(cls7i@virginia.edu)
Phone: (434) 924-4903
Fax: (434) 924-3104
Office Hours: MWTh 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Office: 238 Astronomy Building
Address:
Department of Astronomy
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400325
530 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325

Precessing Jets from Black Hole

Nature paper

Movie

Centaurus A in X-rays

The nearest Active Galactic Nucleus, with jet from the central Supermassive Black Hole. Also shows stellar-mass black holes in binaries, a merging galaxy, and large radio lobes. X-ray image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NGC 6338 Group Merger

Two groups of galaxies are slamming into one another at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour in this combined X-ray (Chandra) and optical (APO) image. The colliding groups will eventually merge and form a single cluster of galaxies; these are the largest objects in the Universe.

Press Release

YouTube video

Craig L. Sarazin

W. H. Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy

ASTR 4993: Tutorial: X-ray Astronomy and Clusters of Galaxies