ASTR 601, Radiative Processes

Fall 2015

Policies and course outline

Examples of problems involving simplification

Practice problems involving the combination of different opacities

Practice problems involving computer programming

My lecture notes:

• Lecture 1: Introduction, approximations and physical intuition in equations
• Lecture 2: Specific intensity RL 1.2, 1.3
• Lecture 3: Scattering and random walks RL 1.7
• Lecture 4: Absorption and addition of opacities RL 1.4
• Lecture 5: Transfer equation and blackbodies RL 1.4, 1.5
• Lecture 6: Rate equations and detailed balance RL 1.6
• Lecture 7: Quantum statistical mechanics
• Lecture 8: Statistical equilibria, Saha equation RL 9.5
• Lecture 9: EM wave equations RL 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
• Lecture 10: Polarization RL 2.4
• Lecture 11: Retarded potentials and radiation RL chapter 3
• Lecture 12: Relativity RL chapter 4
• Lecture 13: Thomson and Rayleigh scattering RL 3.4, 3.6
• Lecture 14: Compton scattering RL chapter 7
• Lecture 15: Bremsstrahlung RL chapter 5
• Lecture 16: Synchrotron radiation RL chapter 6
• Lecture 17: Plasma processes RL chapter 8
• Lecture 18: Statistics in astronomy
• Lecture 19: Atomic structure RL chapter 9
• Lecture 20: Radiative transitions RL 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
• Lecture 21: Bound-bound and bound-free absorption RL 10.5
• Lecture 22: Line broadening RL 10.6
• Lecture 23: Molecules RL 11.1, 11.2
• Lecture 24: Rotational and vibrational transitions RL 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
• Lecture 25: Neutrinos and gravitational radiation
• Lecture 26: Tidal disruption events
• Lecture 27: Short gamma-ray bursts

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