Teaching
Astrophysics and Cosmology

Astrophysics and Cosmology

Uncompleted Handnotes: the following handnotes are being completed in a slow but continuous way, please be patient.
The following handnotes were originally taken in 2013/14 from Prof. Lysiane Mornas and Prof. Luigi Toffolatti. The writter (Dr. Borja Pérez-Díaz) takes fully responsability on the content provided, scientific rigor and updated references.

INDEX

  • Part I. The Observable in Astrophysics

      1. Introduction to astrophysics and cosmology
      1. General properties of stars
      1. Zoology of astrophysical objects
      1. Emission, absorption and detection of the radiaton

  • Part II. The Physics of Stars

      1. Structure equations
      1. Properties of the stellar matter
      1. Solutions to the structure equations
      1. Stellar evolution
      1. Binary systems with mass transfer
      1. Astrosysmology and variable stars

  • Part III. Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei

      1. Galaxies in the Universe
      1. Active Galactic Nuclei and other energetic sources

  • Part IV. Large Scale Structure and Cosmology

      1. Large Scale Structure
      1. Statistics of galaxy distributions
      1. Friedman models

  • Part V. Appendix

    • A. Measurements of distances
    • B. Thermal History of the Universe