Status: Approved for review release · not yet approved for instructional use
Compact objects, accretion, supernova remnants, pulsars, black holes, AGN, cosmic rays, high-energy instruments, and transients.
Last updated: 2026-09-25 · manifest · review report
Planning
Syllabus · Schedule · Reference log · README
Lectures
- Lecture 01: Radiation from Extreme Plasmas — slides · notes
- Lecture 02: Accretion Disks and X-ray Binaries — slides · notes
- Lecture 03: White Dwarfs and Novae — slides · notes
- Lecture 04: Core-Collapse Supernovae and Remnants — slides · notes
- Lecture 05: Pulsars and Magnetospheric Power — slides · notes
- Lecture 06: Neutron-Star Structure and Equation of State — slides · notes
- Lecture 07: Black-Hole Dynamics and Relativistic Orbits — slides · notes
- Lecture 08: Jets, Relativistic Beaming, and AGN — slides · notes
- Lecture 09: Supernova Remnants as Particle Accelerators — slides · notes
- Lecture 10: Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Neutrinos — slides · notes
- Lecture 11: X-ray Imaging, Timing, and Spectroscopy — slides · notes
- Lecture 12: Gamma-Ray Instruments and Burst Localization — slides · notes
- Lecture 13: Transients and Time-Domain Inference — slides · notes
- Lecture 14: Multimessenger Synthesis and Research Design — slides · notes
Labs
Problem sets
- Problem Set 01: X-ray spectral temperature and response · solutions · assessment
- Problem Set 02: Accretion efficiency in compact binaries · solutions · assessment
- Problem Set 03: SNR shock and remnant age · solutions · assessment
- Problem Set 04: Pulsar timing and braking · solutions · assessment
- Problem Set 05: Compactness and neutron-star radius · solutions · assessment
- Problem Set 06: Instrument selection for a transient · solutions · assessment
- Problem Set 07: Multimessenger transient dossier · solutions · assessment