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High-Energy Astrophysics
The study of high-energy astrophysics concerns itself with
understanding the most exotic and energetic phenomena in the Universe;
many of these phenomena are associated with black holes and neutron
stars. The course will begin with an introduction to neutron stars
and black holes, and then proceed to discuss several questions that
are at the forefront of current research. A major emphasis of the
course will be the open questions and mysteries that still abound in
high-energy astrophysics, and the manner in which researchers can
develop thoughtful and methodical strategies for solving these
mysteries.
Click here for full course syllabus
Lecture schedule and links to notes:
- Lecture 1 - Introduction & gravitational crushing of normal matter (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 2 - Electron degeneracy pressure and white dwarfs (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 3 - The Chandrasekhar Mass (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 4 - Neutron Stars (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 5 - Pulsars and Accreting Neutron Stars (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 6 - Downwards to black holes (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 7 - What makes black holes shine? (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 8 - Accretion disks (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 9 - Accretion disks-II (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 10 - Magnetorotational instability (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 11 - Radiatively-inefficient
accretion disks (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 12 - Introduction to General
Relativity (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 13 - Solar system tests of
GR (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 14 - Testing GR beyond the
solar system; and Gravitational Waves (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 15 - Neutron stars and
strong gravity (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 16 - Black holes and
strong gravity (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 17 - Variability properties
of black holes (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 18 - Guest Lecture : Sources
of gravitational radiation (Prof. Cole Miller) (pdf)
- Lecture 19 - Basics of galaxy
formation I (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 20 - Basics of galaxy
formation I (cont.)
- Lecture 21 - Dark Matter Halos and
the Galaxy LF (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 22 - Feedback in galaxy formation (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 23 - Radio-galaxies and
cooling flows (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 24 - What is Dark Energy? (html) (pdf)(ppt)
- Lecture 25 - The Physics of Dark Energy (html) (pdf)(ppt)
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