20 lectures
Weight: 1.25 Units
Areas: Astro
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Garret Cotter
Take-home-exam examination in TT or no formal assessment; homework completion
Radiative processes in astrophysics emission line formation and analysis; continuous and absorption line spectra; cosmic dust and extinction. Physics of interactions between high-energy particlesand radiation (synchrotron, inverse-Compton, thermal bremsstrahlung). The interstellar and intergalactic medium. High-energy astrophysics accretion onto compact objects; the Eddington limit; black holes, active galaxies and relativistic jets. Acceleration of particles to ultra-high energies; cosmic ray and gamma ray astrophysics.