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Undergraduate Record 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Record 2024-2025

ASTR 4140 - Research Methods in Astrophysics


Effective Date 08/01/2023
Primarily for astronomy/astrophysics majors. Students will be exposed to a research methods-intensive set of mini projects, with emphasis on current active areas of astrophysics research. The goal is to prepare students for research in astrophysics. Topics will include databases and database manipulation, astronomical surveys, statistics, space observatories and observation planning, intro to numerical simulations, and proposal writing.Prerequisites: ASTR 2110/2120 and PHYS 2660, or instructor permission.

Requisites Prerequisite: must have completed (ASTR 2110 and ASTR 2120) and (PHYS 1655 or PHYS 2660 or PHYS 3630)

Credits: 3