High Energy Astrophysics

Geoffrey Bicknell

 

Following are my lecture notes more or less in the order that I give them, together with exercises and relevant papers and images. These are all in the form of pdf files and can be read and printed using version 5 of Acrobat Reader. You should obtain the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe web-page

Course information:

Outline of course and assessment requirements

Lectures and tutorial

Monday 09:30 Lecture - Duffield Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 11:00 Lecture - Duffield Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 09:30 Lecture - Duffield Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 11:00 Tutorial - Woolley Seminar Room

Lecture notes:

0. Overview of High Energy Astrophysics
1. The Radiation Field
2. Radiating Charges
3. Synchrotron Radiation I
4. Synchrotron Radiation II
5. Compton Scattering I
6. Compton Scattering II
7. Emission and Absorption
8. Radio Galaxies
9. Relativistic Effects
10. Accretion Disks I
11. Accretion Disks II
12. Friedmann Robertson Walker Space-Times

Assumed knowledge:

1. A1_Tensors
2. A2_EM_Theory

Problem Set:

1.     Problem set

Assignments:

1. Questions 1-4; due 27 Feb
2. Questions 5-8; due 6 March
3. Questions 14-16; due 13 March
4. Questions 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18; due Tues 31 March
5. Questions 19, 20, 21; due Wed. 29 April
6. Questions 23, 24, 25; due Mon. 18 May
7. Questions 9, 22, 26; due Fri. 29 May

Solutions:

• Questions 1-8