Teaching
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Part I. The Observable in Astrophysics

Part I. The Observable in Astrophysics

INDEX

    1. Introduction to astrophysics and cosmology
    1. General properties of stars
    • 2.1. Luminosity and magnitude
      • 2.1.1. Introduction to luminosity
      • 2.1.2. Absolute and apparent luminosity
      • 2.1.3. Luminosity magnitude
    • 2.2. Color
      • 2.2.1. Filters
      • 2.2.2. Color index
    • 2.3. Temperature and spectral types
      • 2.3.1. Blackbody radiation
      • 2.3.2. Effective temperature
      • 2.3.3. Wien’s displacement law
      • 2.3.4. Absorption lines and chemical abundances
      • 2.3.5. Spectral classification
    • 2.4. Distance determination
    • 2.5. Mass, radius, metallicity, age and magnetic field
      • 2.5.1. Mass
      • 2.5.2. Radius
      • 2.5.3. Metallicity
      • 2.5.4. Age, rotation, stellar wind and magnetic field
    • 2.6. Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram
      • 2.6.1. Introduction to the H-R diagram
      • 2.6.2. Relations in the Mean Sequence
    1. Zoology of astrophysical objects
    • 3.1. Zoology of stars
      • 3.1.1. Stellar classification
      • 3.1.2. Stellar evolution
    • 3.2. Variable stars
      • 3.2.1. Extrinsic variability: binary stars
      • 3.2.2. Intrinsic variability: spots and rotation
      • 3.2.3. Intrinsic variability: T-Tauri stars
      • 3.2.4. Intrinsic variability: pulsars
      • 3.2.5. Intrinsic variability: cataclismic stars
    • 3.3. Stellar distribution
      • 3.3.1. Stellar populations
      • 3.3.2. Stellar clusters
    • 3.4. Interstellar medium
    • 3.5. Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei
      • 3.5.1. Galaxies
      • 3.5.2. Active Galactic Nuclei
      • 3.5.3. Unified model
    • 3.6. Galaxy clusters and superclusters
    • 3.7. Cosmology
      • 3.7.1. Einstein equation and metric
      • 3.7.2. Thermal history of the Universe
      • 3.7.3. Composition of the Universe
    1. Emission, absorption and detection of the radiation
    • 4.1. General properties of the electromagnetic radiation
    • 4.2. Atomic transitions
      • 4.2.1. Hydrogen lines
      • 4.2.2. Heavier element lines
      • 4.2.3. Molecular lines
      • 4.2.4. Hyperfine structure lines
    • 4.3. Classification of atomic transitions
      • 4.3.1. Bound-bound (b-b) transitions
      • 4.3.2. Bound-free (b-f) transitions
      • 4.3.3. Free-free (f-f) transitions
      • 4.3.4. Consequences for stellar spectra
    • 4.4. Radiation from accelerated charges
      • 4.4.1. Synchrotron radiation
      • 4.4.2. Compton and Inverse Compton effects
      • 4.4.3. Bremsstrahlung
      • 4.4.4. Other sources of radiation
    • 4.5. Random walk or mean free path
    • 4.6. From emission to observation
      • 4.6.1. Emission/aborption line widths
      • 4.6.2. Doppler effect
      • 4.6.3. Gravitational redshift
      • 4.6.4. Gravitational lensing
      • 4.6.5. Interstellar mediium effects
      • 4.6.6. Atmosferic effects
      • 4.6.7. Aberrations and adaptative optics
    • 4.7. Other sources of radiation
      • 4.7.1. Cosmic rays
      • 4.7.2. $\gamma$-ray bursts
      • 4.7.3. Neutrinos
      • 4.7.4. Gravitational waves