High Energy Astrophysics 2023
Lecture 1: Radiative Transfer
Lecture 2: Blackbody and Thermal Radiation (part I)
Lecture 3: Blackody and Thermal Radiation (part II)
Lecture slides & notes: see the continuation on the previous lecture slides
Rosseland Mean Approximation (Radiative Diffusion Approximation)
Source function example (ALMA)
Lecture 4: Special Relativistic Effects on Radiative Processes
Please check the book of Ghisellini since I’ve taken several examples from his book (the free version can be found here; beware that there are a few typos in this free edition)
Lecture 5: Bremsstrahlung Radiation
This is the videogame I mentioned during the class, which I wasn’t able to show over the projector:
Lecture 6 & 7: Cyclotron & Synchrotron
Lecture 8: Compton & Inverse Compton
Exercise on Gamma-Ray Burst Spectrum (Synchrotron)
Lecture 9: Inverse Compton (part II)
Notes on the Wien Bump in Comptonization
Lecture 10: Curvature Radiation
Lecture slides 10 (Curvature Radiation)
Lecture 11: X-Ray Binaries
Lecture 12: Supernovae & SNR
Lecture 13: Gamma Ray Lines via Radioactive Decay and e-/e+ Annihilation