Fall 2025 Physics GR8012 section 001

ASTROPHYSICS II

Call Number 13099
Day & Time
Location
MW 2:40pm-3:55pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Charles J Hailey
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: Prerequisites; GR6011, another introductory astrophysics course or the instructor's permission; basic General Relativity or familiarity with tensors in flat space. A continuation of G6011. Likely topics include shocks and their application to supernovae; pulsar wind nebulae; atomic physics of astrophysical plasmas; accretion onto magnetized neutron stars and white dwarfs; thick accretion disks, non-thermal X-ray generation processes; particle acceleration and propagation; gravitational wave radiation; magnetars.
Web Site Vergil
Department Physics
Enrollment 0 students (10 max) as of 2:06PM Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Subject Physics
Number GR8012
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To Engineering:Graduate, GSAS, SIPA
Section key 20253PHYS8012G001