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Kapteyn Institute Master Theses

On dwarf galaxies and dark satellites
Supervisor: Amina Helmi
Tjitske Starkenburg (Master CUM LAUDE 8 November 2011)
MAK: Reconstructing cosmic history
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Jarno Ruwen (Master 30 September 2011)
Mysteries at the edge of the Local Group Spectroscopy of RGB stars of Cetus dwarf spheroidal
Supervisor: Eline Tolstoy
Eva Busekool (Master 31 August 2011)
Backreaction in cosmic Swiss cheese
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Hans Buist (Master CUM LAUDE 31 January 2011)
Statistical detection of the EoR signal
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Jouke Jensma (Master CUM LAUDE) 31 October 2010)
Supervisor: Peter Barthel
Monique Ankone (Master 1 September 2010)
A comprehensive study of the star-formation along the strong NGC 2903 bar
Supervisors: Isabel Perez, J.M. van der Hulst, A. Zurita
Gergo Popping (Master 31 August 2010)
The neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1323-62: distance measurements, timing
and spectral analysis and discovery of a kilo-Hertz Quasi-periodic Oscillation
Supervisor: Mariano Mendez
Sandra de Jong (Master 26 August 2010)
Voids as probes of the nature of dark energy
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Patrick Bos (Master CUM LAUDE 26 August 2010)
Adhesion a sticky way of understanding Large Scale Structure
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Johan Hidding (Master 31 July 2010)
Exploring Primordial Gaussian Fields through Constrained Realizations
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Wendy Docters (Master 31 May 2010)
The absolute flux scale at 142 MHz
Supervisors: M.A. Brentjens & A.G. de Bruyn
Jeffrey Bout (Master 31 January 2010)
Galaxy Truncations Introducing 2 techniques to aid in the search
Piet van der Kruit
Stephan Peters (Master 22 December 2009)
Spectral Observations of Micro Quasar GRO J1655-40 in 2005 Outburst
Supervisor: Mariano Mendez
Ytsen Haringa (Master 30 July 2009)
Chemical evolution of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy and its implications on
the Epoch of Reionization

Supervisors: Eline Tolstoy and Saleem Zaroubi
Maarten Breddels (Master February 2009)
Development of a cryogenic index of refraction measuring device
Supervisors: L. Venema and R.F. Peletier
Tessel van der Laan (Master January 2009)
The Frequency of Occurrence of Circumnuclear Starbursts in Seyfert Galaxies -
A Challenge for the Unified Scheme?
Supervisors: E. Schinnerer and P.D. Barthel
Tessel van der Laan (Master January 2009)
Star Cluster Disruption in Dark Matter Dominated Galaxies
Supervisors: Chris Power and Jarrod Hurley (Swinburne University)
Anneke Praagman (Master August 2008)
The Impact of Metallicity on Early Star Formation
Supervisor: Marco Spaans
Aycin Aykutalp (Master August 2008)
Optical and Near-Infrared Surface Photometry of Quiescent Dwarf Galaxies
Supervisor: Reynier Peletier
Umut Yildiz (Master April 2008)
Mass-to-Light Ratios for Elliptical Galaxies
Supervisor: Bob Sanders
Derek Land (January 2008)
Looking at the details of SimpleX
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Jakob van Bethlehem (October 2007)
Sideband ratio in double Sideband and Sidebandseparating
Receivers with a Michelson Interferometer

Supervisor: Andrey Baryshev
Michela Romanini (Master August 2007)
The Search for Galactic Spaghetti
Supervisor: Amina Helmi
Else Starkenburg (August 2007)
The Evolutionary State of Young Stellar Objects in IRDC G48
Supervisor: Russ Shipman
Matthijs van der Wiel (April 2007)
Radio Morphology of Giant Quasar 4C34.47
Supervisor: Peter Barthel
Seyit Höcük (September 2006)
Cosmopotology
Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
Hugo Buddelmeijer (August 2006)
Vertical Structures of late-type edge-on disk galaxies
Supervisor: Reynier Peletier
Olof van den Berg (August 2006)
An anlysis of the UV properties and single stellar populations
parameters of a sample of early-type galaxies from SDSS and GALEX

Supervisor: Scott Trager
Arjen Siegers (April 2006)
An observational determination of the evolution of planetary nebulae
Supervisor: S.R. Pottasch
Guido van der Wolk (March  2006)
Lopsided galaxies
Supervisor: J.M. van der Hulst
Dennis Seekles (September  2005)
Single burst age and metallicity from Hβ, Mg b and <Fe> for model
and observed elliptical galaxies
Supervisor: Scott Trager
Peter Polko (October 2005)
Intergalactic HI complexes without optical-counterparts in LGG 344
Supervisor: J.M. vander Hulst
Attila Popping (April 2005)
A RADICAL look at STARBURST galaxies
Supervisor: Willem Baan (ASTRON) en Marco Spaans
Edo Loenen (March 2005)
A multi-scale approach to automated feature extraction from HI data cubes
Supervisor: Thijs van der Hulst, Tom Oosterloo
Paul Kemper (March 2005)
Segmenting the Universe
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Erwin Platen (March 2005)
Unidentified Infrared Bands, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
and TU Tau
Supervisor: Xander Tielens
Christiaan Boersma (January 2005)
Interpolation of velocity fields with Delaunay tesselations
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Liesbeth Vermaas (August 2004)
The Modelling of Isolated Dense Cores in the W51 Infrared Dark Cloud
Supervisor: Frank Helmich, Russel Shipman, Volker Ossenkopf
Chris Ormel (August 2004)
Selection Effects on the Two-Point Correlation
Function of Voronoi Distributions of Galaxies
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Jonathan Heiner (April 2004)
Image calibration in the OmegaCAM pipeline and a
proper motion survey for old halo white dwarfs
Supervisor: Edwin Valentijn
Ewout Helmich (Sept. 2003)
The Formulation of Population III stars in the presence
of a radiation field

Supervisor: Marco Spaans
Peter Kamphuis (Sept. 2003)
Star-formation Activity in Abell 2670
Supervisor: Jacqueline van Gorkom
Floris Lugt (June 2003-
Graduation March 2005)
Evaluation and Demonstration of THEP as a Radio
Astronomical Observing Facility
Supervisors: Ger de Bruyn and Jaap Bregman
(ASTRON, Dwingeloo)
Stefan Wijnholds (May 2003)
Catching Some Sun - the interaction between comets
and the solar wind
Supervisors: Ronnie Hoekstra (KVI, Groningen) and
Xander Tielens
Dennis Bodewits (May 2003)
A search for planets and other variables in 47 Tucanae
Supervisor: Penny Sackett
Eduard Westra (Feb. 2003)