Text:High-Energy Astrophysics (Rosswog & Brüggen)
Lecture:MWF 3:00-3:50
Office Hours:See Schedule
Final Exam:May 5, 2:45 pm (Monday)

Homework Assignments   (DropBox)

 # Assigned Due Assignment
1Jan 09Jan 16 Special Relativity I
2Jan 14Jan 23 Special Relativity II
3Jan 16Feb 06 Special Relativity III ✫
4Jan 22Jan 28 Radiative Processes I
5Jan 28Feb 01 Radiative Processes II
6Feb 01Feb 06 Radiative Processes III
 # Assigned Due Assignment
7Feb 07Feb 13 Radiative Processes IV
8Feb 20Feb 25 Radiative Processes V
9Feb 11Feb 18 Supernova Remnants I
10Mar 10Mar 17 Supernova Remnants II
 
 
 

Supplemental Links

NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
NASA's Astrophysics Data System for literature searches.
An FTOOLS Quick Start Guide from Goddard, and more detailed documentation for various FTOOLS.
The Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC) maintains tutorials and help files for data analysis.
An example .cshrc file for Chandra anlaysis.
The homepage for xspec, an X-ray spectral fitting package.
A listing of X-ray emission lines.
Lisa May's UNIX Cheat Sheet is a very nice quick reference guide for UNIX/LINUX.
vi cheat sheets from tuxfiles.org and the LUT CS and EE dpt.
A LaTeX template for written reports.
A brief cheat sheet for XSPEC commands.

Suggested Reading

Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Rybicki & Lightman
High Energy Astrophysics Volumes I & II, Malcolm S. Longair
The Physics of Astrophysics Volumes I & II, Frank H. Shu
Astrophysics Of Gaseous Nebulae And Active Galactic Nuclei, Osterbrock & Ferland
Exploring the X-Ray Universe, Seward & Charles
A Terse Guide to UNIX/LINUX, by Lowell Boone