16 lectures (8 in Hilary Term, 8 in Trinity Term)
Weight: 1 Units
Areas: Astro
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Visiting and Short Option Students Only: Please e-mail your work to your TA Jack Fraser jackthomas.fraser@physics.ox.ac.uk by the required deadline, copying in mmathphys@maths.ox.ac.uk
Adam Ingram
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.