University of Szeged
Doctoral School of Physics
Chair: Dr. Szabó, Gábor
(member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Astrophysics
(PhD entrance exam topics)

  1. Astronomical instrumentation, methods of astronomical photometry and spectroscopy

  2. Structure of the Solar System, celestial mechanics

  3. Physics of stellar structure and evolution

  4. Variable stars: types, basic properties, methods for analysis

  5. Physics of the interstellar matter, stellar clusters and the Milky Way galaxy

  6. Extragalactic astronomy

  7. Fundamentals of cosmology

Suggested readings:

B. W. Carroll, D. A. Ostley: Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Addison-Wesley, 1996