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- Comparative Planetary Science, Description: 30h
- The Solar System : 15h
- Formation, inventory and exploration of the solar system: from the dust grains to the gas giants: 4h
- Dynamics of the solar system: 1h
- Comparative properties of the terrestrial planets: 2h
- differentiation
- energy balance
- surface geology
- atmospheric diversity and stability
- Comparative properties of the gas giants: 2h
- atmospheric composition and dynamics
- magnetic fields
- tidal effects, rings and satellites
- Water in the solar system: 1h
- Breaking news from space: the latest results from planetary space missions: 3h
- The next sample return missions from primitive asteroids, and how they can constrain the origin of the solar system and the emergence of life: 1h
- Life on the Earth (and elsewhere?): 1h
- Exoplanets : 15h
- 20 years of exoplanetary discoveries: history and statistics
- The new Era of planetology: planet formation, migration and Hot Jupiters
- The diversity of exoplanets: from Hot Jupiters to SuperEarth
- The next step: Habitability
- Laboratory Astrophysics focused on molecular gaseous and solid phase astrochemistry
- Astrophysics, Description: 30h : Lectures : 24h ; tutorial work : 6 h
- Exploring the electro-magnetic spectrum (Radio → gamma): 6h
- limits due to the atmosphere
- basic radiation mechanisms
- astrophysical sources
- collectors, large equipments
- detectors
- Radiation mechanisms and transfer: 6h
- black body
- cyclotron / synchrotron
- free-free
- transitions
- basis of radiative transfer (Lambert-Beer, Barbier-Eddington)
- the spectroscopic information
- Interstellar medium. Milky Way : 6h
- Gas : atomic, molecular, ionized
- Physical conditions (temperature, density) and processes
- Dust : size, composition. Energetics.
- Star formation : collapse, Initial Mass Function
- Physics : black body, thermodynamical equilibrium, radiative transfer
- Galaxies and distant universe : 6h
- Typology : the Hubble sequence
- Dynamics
- Evolution, interactions, stellar formation
- Structure : clusters, super-clusters, large scale structure
- Evolution : expansion, first phases (inflation, decoupling, dark ages, deionization, dark matter, dark energy).
- Physics : Lemaître model
- The violent Universe : 6h
- Compact objects: neutron stars, black hole, pulsars
- Accretion disks : Active Galactic Nuclei, Young Stellar Objects, X binaries
- Collapsing stars : gamma bursts
- Wavelength range : X, gamma ; techniques for collecting and detecting photons, main instruments
- Hands-on : black hole horizon, temperature
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