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B021023 - RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
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Type of Assessment
Academic Year 2015-16
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Physics and Astronomy
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
FIS/05 - ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
21/09/2015 ⇒ 23/12/2015
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
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Lectureship
Course Content
Radiative processes: radiation from moving charges, relativistic effects, high energy radiative processes (bremmstrahlung, synchrotron, inverse Compton scattering), examples of astrophysical sources. General Relativity: the equivalence principle, metric and physics in a curved spacetime, curvature tensor and Einstein field equations, Schwarzschild solution. Relativistic Astrophysics: weak fields and gravitational waves, structure of neutron stars, pulsars, gravitational collapse, orbits around black holes, bases of electrodynamics of compact objects.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
G. Rybicki & A. Lightman – Radiative processes in Astrophysics, Wiley.
B. Shutz - A first course in General Relativity (Cambridge).
B. Shutz - A first course in General Relativity (Cambridge).
Learning Objectives
The course aims at providing the bases for the study of relativistic astrophysics, from high energy radiative processes to the physics of compact objects, with a wide introduction to general relativity.
Prerequisites
Fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, special relativity.
Teaching Methods
6 CFU, 48 hours.
Frontal lectures with the aid of electronic slides.
Frontal lectures with the aid of electronic slides.
Further information
Pdf lectures provided to students.
Students are received on appointment.
Students are received on appointment.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.