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Kapteyn Institute Master Theses

The Master theses repository is hosted at the Official Theses repository pages
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The list below is an archive of the institute and contains older reports not stored in the official repository.

Properties of Dwarf Galaxies in Fornax
Supervisor: Reynier Peletier

Marten J. Hutten (Master)

Determining thermal inertia of eclipsing binary asteroids: the role of shape
Supervisoren: M. Mueller/Floris van der Tak

Marlies van de Weijgaert-Spijkman (Master April 2017)

Photometry of resolved stars in nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Supervisor: Eline Tolstoy/Thomas de Boer

Jorien van den Bor (Master June 2017)

Determination of stellar atmospheric parameters for the X-shooter Spectral Library
Supervisor: Scott Trager

Anke Arentsen (Master September 2016)
CUM LAUDE

Radial variations of the initial mass function and other stellar population parameters within early-type galaxies
Supervisors: Scott Trager/Chiara Spinello

Gerjon Mensinga (Master August 2016)

Time evolution of gaps in tidal streams. An analytic approach
Supervisor: Amina Helmi

Helmer H. Koppelman (Master July 2016)
CUM LAUDE

Zinc and yttrium: Understanding the chemical evolution of the Boötes I dwarf spheroidal
Supervisors: Eline Tolstoy/Ása Skúladóttir

Sietske Bouma

Probing the kinematic structure of massive cores with molecular lines
Supervisor: Russell Shipman

John Dolan (Master June 2016)

Velocity fiels: probes and agents of Cosmic Web evolution
Supervisors: Rien van de Weijgaert

Mathijs van de Mast (Master May 2016)

Axisymmetric orbit-based models of a mock dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Supervisors: Amina Helmi/Eline Tolstoy

Jorrit Hagen (Master September 2015)
CUM LAUDE

Simulating the Systematic Variation of the Low-Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function in Early-Type Galaxies Using a Semi-Analytic Model
Supervisors: Scott Trager/Gergo Popping

Judith ter Horst (Master August 2015)

Kinematics of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies Draco and Ursa Minor
Supervisors: Eline Tolstoy/Scott Trager

Johanna Hartke (Master August 2015)
CUM LAUDE

A Far-Infrared Beam-Steering Offner Relay for SAFARIl
Supervisors: Gert de Lange/Scott Trager

Ellen Schallig (Master July 2015)

Modelling the lower kHz QPO of 4U 1636-53 using a simple two-component two-component model
Supervisor: Mariano Mendez

Gijs de Goeijen (Master November 2014)

Statistics of Caustics in Large-Scale Structure Formation
Supervisors: Rien van de Weijgaert, Aernout van Enter, Diederik Roest

Job Feldbrugge (Master 29 August 2014)
CUM LAUDE

How to Find Galaxy-Scale Strong Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Candidates in the Kilo Degree Survey
Supervisors: Gijs Verdoes Kleijn and Hugo Buddelmeijer

Casper Blokzijl (Master 27 August 2014)

Structural and Chemical comparison of brown dwarf protoplanetary disks
with T Tauri and Herbig disks

Supervisor: Inga Kamp

Balaji Muthusubramanian (Master 24 July 2014)

Unraveling the Transitional Disk RX J1615.3-3255: Scattered Light
Observations Versus Disk Models

Supervisors: Inga Kamp and Misato Fukagawa

Robin Kooistra (Master 24 July 2014)
Triangulating the darkness
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Keimpe Nevenzeel (Master 20 December 2013)
The redshifted 21cm power spectrum during the
epoch of reionization

Supervisor: Saleem Zaroubi
Sander Bus (Master October 2013)
Verification and Demonstration of EMBRACE as a Radio Telescope to observe Astronomical Sources
Supervisor: Thijs van der Hulst
Boudewijn Hut (Master 31 August 2013)
A Hierarchy of Voids
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Matthijs Dries (Master 31 August 2013)
CUM LAUDE
Origin of Suppermassive Black Holes
Supervisor: Marco Spaans
Caroline Van Borm (Master 28 February 2013)
CUM LAUDE
Hydrogen Addition to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Supervisors: Stephanie Cazaux and Marco Spaans
Leon Boschman (Master November 2012)
The disk-jet connection in the black-hole candidate H1743-322:
correlations between X-ray timing features and radio jet

Supervisors: Paolo Soleri and Mariano Mendez
Omar Choudhury (Master October 2012)
Galaxy morphology in the era of large surveys:impact on Hi studies
Supervisors: Paola Serra and Tom Oosterloo
Nancy Irissari (Master August 2012)
Three instrumental problems in ACAM: characterisation of the lter set,
elimination of scattered light, and design of a new grism.
Supervisor: Reynier Peletier
Annemieke Janssen (Master February 2012)
On dwarf galaxies and dark satellites
Supervisor: Amina Helmi
Tjitske Starkenburg (Master November 2011)
(CUM LAUDE)
MAK: Reconstructing cosmic history
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Jarno Ruwen (Master September 2011)
Mysteries at the edge of the Local Group Spectroscopy
of RGB stars of Cetus dwarf spheroidal

Supervisor: Eline Tolstoy
Eva Busekool (Master August 2011)
Backreaction in cosmic Swiss cheese
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Hans Buist (Master January 2011)
(CUM LAUDE)
Statistical detection of the EoR signal
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Jouke Jensma (Master October 2010)
(CUM LAUDE)
3th to 6th grade students'and their teachers' understanding
of astronomical concepts
(Bijlage 1b)
Supervisor: Peter Barthel
Monique Ankone (Master 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 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 August 2010)
Voids as probes of the nature of dark energy
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Patrick Bos (Master August 2010)
(CUM LAUDE)
Adhesion a sticky way of understanding Large Scale Structure
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Johan Hidding (Master July 2010)
Exploring Primordial Gaussian Fields through Constrained Realizations
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Wendy Docters (Master May 2010)
The absolute flux scale at 142 MHz
Supervisors: M.A. Brentjens & A.G. de Bruyn
Jeffrey Bout (Master January 2010)
Galaxy Truncations Introducing 2 techniques to aid in the search
Piet van der Kruit
Stephan Peters (Master December 2009)
Spectral Observations of Micro Quasar GRO J1655-40 in 2005 Outburst
Supervisor: Mariano Mendez
Ytsen Haringa (Master 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)
The Planetary Extension for the Antikythera Mechanism
Supervisor: Rien van de Weijgaert
Niels Bos (Master Educatie en Communicatie October 2008)
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 Weijgaert
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 (September 2003)
The Formulation of Population III stars in the presence
of a radiation field

Supervisor: Marco Spaans
Peter Kamphuis (September 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, RUG) and Xander Tielens
Dennis Bodewits (May 2003)
A search for planets and other variables in 47 Tucanae
Supervisor: Penny Sackett
Eduard Westra (February 2003)