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Kapteyn Institute Bachelor Research Reports

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The list below is and old archive and seems more complete for dates before 2014.

A Mid-Infrared Spectral Atlas of Simple Organic Chemistry in the Protoplanetary Disk of FT Tauri
Supervisors: Inga Kamp/Stefano Antonellini
N.O. (Nick) Oberg (August 2016)
Looking for sulfur in the Sculptur dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Supervisor: Eline Tolstoy
M. (Michael) Zuravlovs (August 2016)
Creating realistic mock galaxy samples for the APERTIF HI surveys
Supervisors: Thijs van der Hulst and Manolis Papastergis
S. (Bas) Roelenga (July 2016)
Measuring the radio spectra of compact radio sources
Supervisor: John McKean
J.N.K.Y. (Jesper) Tjoa (July 2016)
The Xco factor in PDRs
Supervisors: Stephanie Cazaux and Marco Spaans
M.J. (Michael) van Schaik (July 2016)
A statistical test for validation of Gaia data
Supervisors: Amina Helmi, Maarten Breddels and Jovan Veljanoski
T. (Tomas) Heldeweg (July 2016)
LOFAR as a Lightning Mapping Array
Supervisors: Olaf Scholten and Mariano Mendez
D.S. (Danny) Sardjan (July 2016)
Environmental Dependence of AGN and Star-Formation Activity
Supervisor: John McKean
M. (Marenthe) Hopma (July 2016)
The 40- and 60-micron water ice features in the SED of protoplanetary disks
Supervisors: Inga Kamp and Floris van der Tak
A. (Anton) Scheepstra (July 2016)
Separating SoFiA's Sources: a identification and separation module for SoFiA
Supervisors: Nadine Giese and Thijs van der Hulst
M.J.F. (Jose) Versteeg (July 2016)
Spectroscopic Identification of Galaxies in the HUDF using MUSE
Supervisor: Karina Caputi
H. (Hylke) Hoogland (June 2016)
Back-end and Mechanics of a Pickett-Potter Horn Telescope at 11GHz
Supervisors: John McKean/Ronald Hesper/Andrey Baryshev
M. (Maik) Zandvliet (July 2015)
Computer Control of a Horn Antenna and Measuring the Sun at 11 GHz
Supervisors: John McKean/Andrey Baryshev/Ronald Hesper
F. (Frits) Sweijen (July 2015)

Calibration of a 11 GHz Pickett-Potter Horn and measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Supervisors: John McKean/Andrey Baryshev/Ronald Hesper

W. (Willeke) Mulder (July 2015)

Mid-IR Water Emission and the 10 µm Silicate Feature in Protoplanetary Disks Surrounding T Tauri Stars
Supervisor: Inga Kamp

J.G. (Jonas) Bremer (July 2015)
Directional calibration of LOFAR
Supervisors: John McKean/Tammo Jan Dijke
P (Nikki) Arendse (July 2015)

Gamma-Ray Bursts as Source of High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Supervisors: Olaf Scholten/Mariano Mendez

F. (Folkert) Nobels (July 2015)

Theories of Modified Gravity
Supervisor: Diederik Roest/Rien van de Weijgaert

E. (Eifion) Prinsen (July 2015)

Design of a Pickett-Potter Horn to measure the CMB at 11 GHz
Supervisor: John McKean

B. (Bram) Lap (July 2015)

Oscillation and Photospheric Radius Expansion in X-ray Bursts
Supervisors: Mariano Mendez/Olaf Scholten

J. (Jasper) Pluijmers (July 2015)

Measurements of the Mass and Radius of a Neutron Star:
consequences for the Equation of State of dense nuclear matter

Supervisor: Mariano Mendez

T. (Tobias) Vos (July 2015)

An investigation into the correlation between CO and H2O emission in protoplanetary disks
Supervisor: Inga Kamp

J.A. (Joost) van den Born (July 2015)

Feasibility of Using Orbital Resonances for Nearby Stars to Constrain the Triaxiality of the Galactic Halo
Supervisor: Amina Helmi

C. (Casper) Hesp (July 2015)

The peculiar FIR emission of 3C 318
Supervisor: Peter Barthel

S.N. (Simon) Steendam (May 2015)

Spectral Energy Distributions of Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula
Supervisors: Silvia Vicente/Inga Kamp

W.E. (Walter) van Rossem (November 2014)

The role of excited H2 in protoplanetary disks
Supervisor: Inga Kamp

S.J.D. (Sietske) Bouma (June 2014)
On the nature of the stellar-mass black-hole candidate X-ray binary 4U 1630-47
Supervisor: Ad van den Berg/Saleem Zaroubi
M. (Marijn) Stuut (June 2014)

Statistics of surface brightness pro le anomalies
Supervisor: Leon Koopmans

H.H. (Helmer) Koppelman (July 2014)
Statistical Analysis of the Lateral Distribution Function for the AERAlet array of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Supervisor: Ad van den Berg/Saleem Zaroubi
A.J. (Jacob) van den Eijnden (June 2014)

Comparison of metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo and in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sculptor, with emphasis on Carbon Enhanced Metal-Poor stars
Supervisor: Eline Tolstoy

A. (Anke) Arentsen (July 2014)
Detecting streaming motions in spiral galaxies
Supervisor: Marc Verheijen
J.H.J. (Jorrit) Hagen (July 2013)
The time-derivative of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in the neutron star 4U 1702-429
Supervisor: Mariano Mendez
M. (Mathijs) van de Mast (February 2013)
The 21-cm Power Spectrum Sensitivity op Current and Future Epoch of Reionization Arrays
Supervisor: Leon Koopmans
R.C. (Ronnyi) Joseph (June 2012)
Using WISE data to study the stellar populations of giant and dwarf ellipticals
Supervisor: Reynier Peletier
M.N. (Martijn) de Vries (December 2012)
Spitzer IRS data on  Bootis stars: debris disks or di use ISM dust ?
Supervisor: Inga Kamp
M. (Marlies) Spijkman (July 2012)
Numerical Simulations of Lens Anomalies
Supervisor: Leon Koopmans
R.R. (Robin) Kooistra (July 2012)
Analysis of Betti Numbers and Persistence Diagrams of 2-Dimensional
Gaussian Random Fields

Supervisor: Rien van de Weygaert
J.L. (Job) Feldbrugge (July 2012) CUM LAUDE
Primordial Disk Evolution: A timescale analysis
Supervisor: Marco Spaans
E.J.J. (Ellen) Schallig (June 2012)
Spectral analysis of the cooling phase of an x-ray superburst in 4U 1636-53
Supervisors: Guobao Zhang and Mariano Mendez
G. (Gerjon) Mensinga (May 2012)
A Photometric Study of Two Ultra Faint Dwarf Galaxies:
The Connection Between Leo IV and Leo V

Supervisors: Thomas de Boer and Eline Tolstoy
C.H. (Casper) Blokzijl (May 2012)
Resolved Stars in a large IFU Data Cube with GIPSY
Supervisors: Eline Tolstoy en Martin Vogelaar
Boudewijn Hut (April 2012)
Power spectrum analysis of galaxy potentials using strong lensing events
Supervisor: Leon Koopmans
S. (Sander) Bus (February 2012)
Production of a Beam of isometric A1 for Astrophysical Research
Supervisors: Hans Wilschut (KVI) and Scott Trager
J.O. (Olivier) Grasdijk (November 2011)
Focal Ratio Degradation in Optical Fibres
Supervisor: M.A.W. Verheijen
V. (Vincent) van Assen (December 2011)
Spooky Action at Spacy Distances
Supervisors: Marco Spaans en Holger Waalkens
Keimpe Nevenzeel (Juni 2011)
An outsider’s view on the metallicity and -abundance distribution of the Milky Way
Supervisor: Scott Trager
O.S. (Omar) Choudhury (Mei 2011)
Developing a Tool for the Spectral Analysis of Metal-Poor RGB Stars with X-shooter
Supervisors: Eline Tolstoy en Else Starkenburg
L.M.P.V. (Leon) Boschman (Maart 2011)
Parameters of the Gratema telescope and The dust distribution in spiral galaxies
Supervisors: R.F. Peletier
Annemieke Janssen (December 2009)
On the deconvolution of Unidentified Extended Objects from the Planetary Nebula Spectograph
Supervisors: N. Douglas, S. Zaroubi
Jacob Hidding (Mei 2009)
Large scale simulations for LOFAR
Supervisors: S. Zaroubi, R.M. Thomas
G.J.H. (Gijs) de Goeijen (September 2009)
The effect of an inhomogeneous medium on the ram pressure stripping of dwarf galaxies
Supervisors: Amina.Helmi, M.C. Smith
M.C. (Marten) Blaauw (May 2009)
Tracing High-Redshift Black Holes with ALMA in Atomic Cooling Lines
Supervisor: M. Spaans
Margriet van der Laan (May 2009)
Constraining Dark Matter through the spin temperature
Supervisor:: S. Zaroubi
Jouke Jensma (November 2009)
Upper limits on the density of dark matter in the solar system
Supervisors: R. Timmermans, S. Zaroubi
J.T. (Hans) Buist (March, 2009)
Star formation in the bar of NGC 2903
Supervisor: I. Perez-Martin, A. Zurita Munoz
Gergo Popping (January, 2009)
Reduction of Spectroscopic data: Spectrophotometric Calibration of Gaia
Supervisor: Scott Trager
M.C. (Monique) Ankone (January 2009)
The Frequency of Occurence of Circumnuclear Starburst in Seyfert Galaxies - A challenge for the Unified Scheme?
Supervisors: E. Schimmer, P. Barthel
Tessel van der Laan (June, 2008)
Determining the cosmological parameters Omega_m and sigma_s from peculiar velocity and density-contrast data
Supervisor: Saleem Zaroubi
W. (Wendy) Docters (June, 2008)
Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo-ACS Survey
Supervisors: R.F. Peletier, E.A. Valentijn
E.G.P. (Patrick) Bos (June 2008)
Blue stars in M32
Supervisor: Scott Trager
Eva Busekool (June, 2008)
Investigating the origin of the Magorrian relation
Supervisor: Marco Spaans
N. (Niels) Bos (April, 2008)
Gamma-Ray Bursts at High Redshift
Supervisor: Marco Spaans
M. (Matthijs) Dries (March, 2008)
Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models
Supervisors: Amina.Helmi, M.C. Smith
M.A. (Maarten) Breddels (November, 2007)
Searching for known asteroids in the WFI archive using Astro-WISE
Supervisors: Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, Edwin Valentijn
J. (Jeffrey) Bout (May 2007)