Niel Brandt's Astronomy 485 Lectures

Lecture 02: X-ray Absorption, Column Density, Absorption Edges, Fluorescent Lines, Auger Effect

Lecture 03: Radiation from a Hot Plasma, Bremsstrahlung

Lecture 04: Bremsstrahlung, Free-Free Absorption, Radiative Recombination, Dielectronic Recombination, Three-Body Recombination

Lecture 05: Collisional Excitation of Line Emission, Power from Radiation Processes Compared, Cyclotron Radiation, Synchrotron Radiation

Lecture 06: Synchrotron Radiation, Thomson Scattering, Compton Scattering

Lecture 07: Compton Scattering, Thomson Depth, Inverse Compton Scattering, S-Z Effect, Eddington Limit

Lecture 08: Strong Shocks, Rankine-Huginiot Jump Conditions, Fermi Acceleration, Pair Production

Lecture 09: Basic Satellite Properties, Proportional Counters, X-ray Imaging Optics

Lecture 10: X-ray Imaging Optics, Position Sensitive Proportional Counters, Microchannel Plates, CCDs, Gratings, Microcalorimeters

Lecture 11: Format of X-ray Data, Chisquared Fitting of X-ray Spectra, Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, Solar System X-ray Sources

Lecture 12: Solar System X-ray Sources, X-rays from the Solar Corona, Coronal X-rays from Normal Stars

Lecture 13: Coronal X-rays from Normal Stars, Wind X-rays from Massive Stars, Supernovae, Time Evolution of Supernova Remnants

Lecture 14: Sedov-Taylor Expansion, Supernova Remnant Examples, Supernova Remnant X-ray Spectra, Supernova Demography, Supernova 1987a, Plerions

Lecture 15: S process, R process, Sites of Nucleosynthesis, White Dwarf Basics, White Dwarf Surveys, White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation

Lecture 16: Chandrasekhar Mass, Gravitational Fine Structure Constant, White Dwarf Cooling, Cataclysmic Variables, Common Envelope Evolution, Neutron Star Basics

Lecture 17: Beta-Decay Blocking, Neutronization, Neutron Star Maximum Mass, NS Internal Structure, NS Cooling, NS Kicks, NS Magnetic Fields, Pulsar Basics

Lecture 18: Pulsar Braking Index, Magnetic Dipole Model, Pulsar Ages, Pulsar Magnetic Field Strengths, Pulsar Glitches, Pulsar Masses, The "Lack" of Pulsars in Supernova Remnants, Pulsars in Binaries

Lecture 19: The Binary Pulsar, Gravitational Wave Radiation, High-Mass X-ray Binaries, Bondi-Hoyle Accretion, X-ray Pulsars, Low-Mass X-ray Binaries, X-ray Bursts, Dippers and Accretion Disk Corona Sources, Quasi-Periodic Oscillations

Lecture 20: X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters, Tidal Capture, Black Hole Binaries, Cygnus X-1, Black Hole X-ray Novae, V404 Cyg, Ellipsoidal Light Curve Variations, The "Pit" in the Potential

Lecture 21: The "Pit" in the Potential, Observed Black Hole X-ray Spectra, Simple Black Hole Accretion, Relativistic Disk Effects, Accretion Disk Coronae, Advection Dominated Accretion, Trapping Flows

Lecture 22: Kerr Black Holes, Microquasars in the Galaxy, SS 433, GRS 1915+105, Apparent Superluminal Motion, The Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

Lecture 23: The Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center, X-rays from Spiral Galaxies, "Super-Eddington" Sources, Starbursts and Superwinds, Observational Limits to X-ray Galaxy Studies

Lecture 24: X-rays from Elliptical Galaxies, Growth and Fueling of Supermassive Black Holes, Jets and Lobes, Seyfert Galaxies and Radio-Quiet Quasars, AGN X-ray Variability, AGN X-ray Spectra

Lecture 25: AGN X-ray Continuum Components, AGN X-ray Spectral Features, Compton Reflection, Warm Absorbers, X-rays and the Unified AGN Model, Hot Intracluster Gas, Coma and Virgo Clusters

Lecture 26: Metals in Hot Intracluster Gas, The Riddle of Cooling Flows, The Cosmic X-ray Background, Deep X-ray Surveys, Active Galaxy Evolution, Some Planned Future Missions