W1L1: Introduction PDF (Intro chapter in textbook) PDF
- W2L1: Covered pages 3-9.
- W2L2: Prob 1.3, Prob 1.5. HUDF, First image of BH, Story of Gamma Ray Burst discovery. Appendix B.
- W2L3: Appendix B continued. Intensity and specific intensity (1.3). Problem 1.9, ex 1.2. resolved vs unresolved images (fig 1.8 and 1.9). RA and dec recap.
- W3L1: Olbers' paradox (p.15, Fig 1.11), energy density (sect 1.4), mean intensity J, radiation pressure (sect 1.5)
- W3L2: First part of chapter 2: PDF
- W3L3: Almost all of the rest of chapter 2. NEW: now with handwritten notes added! PDF
- W4L1: TA tutorial 1, observing with iTelescope network. PDF of Ananthan's presentation. Visualization, example 2.3. PDF.
- W4L2: More on the project (not in notes, but here on website), example 2.3 finished, start of chapter 3. PDF
- W4L3: ch. 3.4.0-3.42, ideal gas law etc. PDF
- W5L1: blackboard. We covered Mean free path (section 3.4.3), example 3.4, statistical equilibrium, thermodynamic equilibrium (TE) and local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) (section 3.4.4.
- W5L2: Ex 3.5, Boltzmann's equation, the neutral hydrogen atom and hydrogen excitation levels. PDF
- W5L3: PDF
- W6L1: 4.1.1-4.1.5, beginning 4.2. PDF
- W6L2: 4.2, beginning ch. 5. PDF
- W6L3:ch 5 cont'd. PDF
- W7L1: Finishing cross sections, Lyman alpha forest, absorption (ch 5), Strömgren sphere and radius. PDF
- W7L2: Opacity - optical depth. PDF
- W8L1: Eddington limit, end of ch 5, Beginning chapter 6, Equation of radiative transfer and its solutions. PDF
- W8L2: Rest of ch 6: "Most important equation", LTE solution to radiative transfer equation. Absorption and emission and temperatures of background source. HI clouds. Temp limits. PDF
- W9L1: Chapter 7, redshifts. PDF
- W9L2: End of chapter 7. PDF
- W9L3: Chapter 8 - emission processes, thermal and non-thermal emission, Bremsstrahlung. PDF
- W10L1: Bremsstrahlung in detail, observing it in radio (and x-ray, but that will be in next lecture). PDF
- W10L2: More Bremsstrahlung, now in X-ray. chimneys. PDF
- W10L3: Thermal continuum continued: Free-bound (recombination) and bound-bound (2-photon). Non-thermal emission: Cyclotron and Synchrotron. PDF
- W11L1: Synchrotron emission, magnetic field strengths, magnetospheres, equations, started spectrum derivation. PDF
- W11L2: Observation project part B, tutorial. Theresa's (overview, template fitting). Ananthan's (coordinates, conversions, software, analysis).
- W11L3: Synchrotron emission, emission and absorption coefficients with pacholczyk's constants, spectral index, synchrotron spectrum. PDF
- W12L1: Inverse Compton radiation (last of the non-thermal radiation processes). Beginning ch 9: emission lines. PDF
- W12L2: Emission lines, electric, rotational, vibrational and nuclear transitions. PDF
- W12L3: Emission lines, line broadening effects: natural, doppler (incl thermal) and pressure broadening. PDF
- W13L1: HI line, mass measurement. Recombination lines, optical, (radio in W13L2). PDF
- W13L2: optical (continued - line ratios) and radio recombination lines. Press release. PDF
- W13L3: Last lecture! Some problems from chapter 10, bringing it all together! PDF
