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Radiative Processes in Astrophysics - NTMF070

Title:	Zářivé procesy v astrofyzice
Guaranteed by:	Institute of Theoretical Physics (32-UTF)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	doc. Mgr. David Heyrovský, Ph.D.
Comes under:	Doporučené přednášky 1/2

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Annotation -

Last update: prof. RNDr. Jiří Podolský, CSc., DSc. (29.04.2019)

Electromagnetic radiation of nonrelativistic and relativistic charged particles and of their ensembles, emission from astrophysical sources, propagation through the cosmic environment. For 1st and 2nd year students of theoretical physics and astrophysics.

Course completion requirements -

Last update: doc. Mgr. David Heyrovský, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral examination

Literature -

Last update: doc. RNDr. Karel Houfek, Ph.D. (05.05.2023)

G. B. Rybicki, A. P. Lightman: Radiative processes in astrophysics. Wiley, New York, 1979.

J. D. Jackson: Classical electrodynamics. Wiley, New York, 3rd ed., 1999.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: doc. Mgr. David Heyrovský, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

The examination follows the syllabus of the course as covered by the lectures.

Syllabus -

Last update: doc. Mgr. David Heyrovský, Ph.D. (24.05.2005)

Electromagnetic radiation - basic characteristics and quantities. Elementary emission processes in astrophysics, emission by relativistic particles, radiation by systems of particles. Interaction of radiation with the cosmic environment (charged particles, plasma, dust, atomic and molecular gases) - scattering, absorption, emission. Equation of radiative transfer. Propagation of radiation through gravitational fields - gravitational lensing. Cosmological effects including cosmological redshift, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and Sachs-Wolfe effects. Radiation from astrophysical sources and methods of its detection from radio waves to gamma rays. Our current view of the universe across the electromagnetic spectrum.