Course:ASTR406/2023W/Notes

Suggested Reading

The bulk of the lecture notes come from the monograph Astrophysical Processes.

I have not assigned a required textbook for this course.  I have posted extensive notes on this wiki site.  Some of these notes are in the form of a textbook, others are slides that I have produced and others are slides from Ingrid Stairs, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jess McIver and Luda van Waerbeke.  I would also like to point you to the excellent and thorough lecture notes of Nick Kaiser which cover all of the topics in Unit 1 (and a whole lot more as well):

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~kaiser/lectures/elements.pdf

James Lattimer has prepared a detailed monograph on stars, stellar atmospheres, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes as well as the underlying physics (Unit 2):

http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/lattimer/PHY521/phy521.ps PDF

Henk Spruit has prepared excellent and very thorough notes on accretion disks with a focus on X-ray binaries and cataclysmic variables (Unit 3):

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0003144v2.pdf

Charles Dermer presented a nice series of lectures on gamma-ray bursts (Unit 3):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.3959.pdf

The following link no longer works: http://heseweb.nrl.navy.mil/gamma/~dermer/lectures/GRBs/index.htm

These links are mainly for you to get some different points of view to aid your learning.  I will only be testing you on the material presented in the notes on the Connect Site and in lectures.  If you come up with some other useful links, I would be happy to add them here!