Astrophysics (PHYS 6381 and ASTR 3302)

Left: pseudo-color TOROS image of the kilonova associated with GW170817 and its host galaxy. Right:  zoom into the residual image after host galaxy subtraction and core masking (hatched circle), from Díaz et al. (Ap J L, 2017).

This is the webpage for the course Introduction to Astrophysics.This is an introduction to Modern Astrophysics at a graduate level (or advanced undergraduate level). It does require a familiarity with some astronomical concepts.

This is the link for the course syllabus:

Astro_syllabus.

I will be posting here the notes for each class and the Homework that I assign.

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

Lecture 8

Lecture 9 & 10

Lecture 11

Lecture 12

Lecture 13

Lecture 14