Astrophysics
HRI Graduate
School
03 August - 09
December 2011
Things to
remember:
- To contact me anytime, remember that my office number is 323; the
phone extension number is 4357.
In
case
you
want
to contact me and do not find me in office,
send me an email to tirth at hri.res.in.
- Your tutor for the course would be Sourav Mitra <smitra at hri.res.in>.
- Any
information/updates/news about the course will be put up at the webpage
http://www.hri.res.in/~tirth/Teaching/Astro-ph/index.html.
Make sure you check the webpage periodically.
- The course will consist of approximately 35-40 lectures (of 1.5
hours each) at the rate of 3 lectures
per
week. There will be a mid-term break during 03-07 October.
- There will be several take-home assignment sets and/or
unannounced class tests (quizzes), one mid-semester examination
(tentatively around 29 September) and one final
examination (tentatively during the week 05-09 December) which will be
used for evaluating the course.
- The evaluation procedure is the following: Your final average
score will be
computed giving 40% weightage to final exam, 30% to the mid-semester
exam and 30% to the
assignments plus quizzes. You need to score a minimum of 60% in the
average
grade
to pass the course.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Radiative Transfer
- Stellar Structure and Evolution
- End Stages of Stars
- Interstellar Medium
- Stellar Dynamics
- Extragalactic Astronomy
- Cosmology
Reading List:
Books to be followed closely:
- Arnab Rai Choudhuri (2010), Astrophysics
for
Physicists, Cambridge University Press
- T. Padmanabhan (2000), Theoretical Astrophysics:
Volume 1, Astrophysical Processes, Cambridge University Press
Other books:
- Frank H. Shu (1991), The
physics
of astrophysics: Volumes I and II, University
Science Books
- T.
Padmanabhan (2000), Theoretical Astrophysics:
Volumes 2 and 3, Cambridge
University Press
- George B. Rybicki & Alan P. Lightman (1985), Radiative Processes in Astrophysics,
Wiley-VCH
- Martin Harwit (2006), Astrophysical Concepts (Astronomy and
Astrophysics Library), Springer