- Docente: Luca Bizzocchi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Astronomy (cod. 8004)
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from Feb 20, 2024 to May 29, 2024
Learning outcomes
The students learn: 1) to predict, on the basis of the photophysical and thermodynamical conditions of the different astronomical scenarios, the expected processes of molecular formation and desctruction and their kinetics; 2) to predict, on the basis of the energy diagrams of atoms, ions, and simple molecules, the spectral activity in the cosmic laboratory.
Course contents
- Interstellar medium
- Molecular structure
- Molecular rotational and vibrational spectroscopy
- Millimetre astronomy
- Interstellar chemistry
- Use of molecular signals in astrophysics
Readings/Bibliography
- Lecture notes.
- J. M. Brown, Molecular Spectroscopy, Oxford University Press, 1998.
- T.W. Hartquist & D.A. Williams, The Chemically Controlled Cosmos, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- D.A. Williams & T.W. Hartquist, The Cosmic-Chemical Bond, RSC Publishing, 2013.
- D.A. Williams & S. Viti, Observational Molecular Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- C. Vallance, Astrochemistry, World Scientific, 2016.
- S. Yamamoto, Introduction to Astrochemistry, Springer, 2017.
- T. Wilson, K. Rohlfs, S. Hüttermeister, Tools of Radio Astronomy, Springer, 2013.
Teaching methods
Classes are organized as lectures in the classroom, and presentation of applications taken from the current research.
Assessment methods
Learning assessment is evaluated only by means of the final examination. This aims at verifying the student's knowledge and skills by means of an oral exam, where the student presents a short thesis and replies to questions concerning the course contents.
Teaching tools
Video projector, notebook, blackboard.
Office hours
See the website of Luca Bizzocchi