ASAPMING - Astronomy and Astrophysics

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A passing grade in nine (9) units of graduate-level astronomy coursework, including five or more units from the core astronomy graduate curriculum listed below. 

• ASTR 515: Interstellar Medium & Star Formation (2 units)

• ASTR 545: Stars & Accretion (3 units)

• ASTR 541: Cosmology (3 units)

• ASTR 540: Structure & Dynamics of Galaxies (2 units)

• ASTR 518: Instrumentation & Statistics (2 units)

• ASTR 589: Physics of Astrophysics (3 units)

• ASTR 513: Cosmology (3 units)

ASTR 502. Data Mining and Machine Learning in Astronomy (2 units)

ASTR 503. Physics of the Solar System (3 units)

ASTR 516. Modern Astronomical Optics (3 units)

ASTR 520. Seminar on Advanced Extragalactic Astronomy (2 units)

ASTR 545. Seminar on Star and Planet Formation (2 units)

ASTR 553. Solar System Dynamics (3 units)

ASTR 560. Seminar with a Focus on Stellar Evolution from an Observational Perspective (2 units)

ASTR 569. Introduction to General Relativity (3 units)

ASTR 582. Seminar on High Energy Astrophysics (2 units)

ASTR 585. Radio Astronomy (3 units)

ASTR 588. Astrochemistry (3 units)

ASTR 596B. Methods in Computational Astrophysics (3 units)

PTYS 558. Plasma Physics with Astrophysical and Solar System Applications (3 units)

One astronomy faculty member must participate in the student's preliminary and final oral exams within their respective Ph.D. program. 

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.