ASTR 498, High Energy Astrophysics

Spring 2008

My lecture notes:

• Lecture 1: Intuition and Order of Magnitude Estimates
• Lecture 2: Special relativity, part 1
• Lecture 3: Special relativity, part 2 and tensor practice problems
• Lecture 4: Radiation processes
• Lecture 5: Particle processes
• Lecture 6: Low-energy cosmic rays
• Lecture 7: Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
• Lecture 8: Introduction to general relativity
• Lecture 9: Tensor manipulations
• Lecture 10: Schwarzschild equation of motion
• Lecture 11: The stress-energy tensor
• Lecture 12: Accretion disks
• Lecture 13: Black holes: the Kerr spacetime
• Lecture 14: Active galactic nuclei
• Lecture 15: Orbits and stellar-mass BH
• Lecture 16: Frontiers in strong gravity
• Lecture 17: Neutron star structure
• Lecture 18: Rotation-powered pulsars
• Lecture 19: Accretion-powered pulsars
• Lecture 20: Core collapse supernovae
• Lecture 21: White dwarf supernovae
• Lecture 22: Gamma-ray bursts, part 1
• Lecture 23: GRB 2: short bursts, SGRs
• Lecture 24: Gravitational radiation basics
• Lecture 25: Grav waves from binaries
• Lecture 26: Binaries part 2
• Lecture 27: Stochastic sources of GW

Problem sets:

• Problem set 1, due February 14
• Problem set 2, due February 28
• Problem set 3, due March 13
• Problem set 4, due April 3
• Problem set 5, due April 17
• Problem set 6, due May 8

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