FU:OAVENPVB07 Compact Stars - Course Information
OAVENPVB07 Compact Stars
Institute of physics in Opavawinter 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Martin Urbanec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Urbanec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Martin Urbanec, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- (FAKULTA(FU) && TYP_STUDIA(N))
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Observational High Energy Astrophysics (programme FU, OBAFYVENM)
- Course objectives
- Course introduces students to late stages of stellar evolution - to compact stars
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be introduced to current knowledge of compact stars
- Syllabus
- Course is organised as follows
- Late stage of evolution of massive stars, birth of white dwarf and neutron stars
- Simple description of compact star's matter - degenerate Fermi gas, equation of state of outer layers of neutron stars
- White dwarfs - simple description, Chandrasekhar limit
- Dense nuclear matter - neutron drip, beta equilibrium
- Realistic equations of state of neutron star matter
- Structure equations of neutron stars - equation of hydrostatic equilibrium, maximum mass, limits on compactness
- Pulsars
- Other theoretical models of compact stars - quark stars, strange stars, hybrid stars
- Rotation of neutron stars
- Neutron stars in binaries
- Binary systems of two compact objects, gravitational waves
- Cooling of white dwarfs and neutron stars
- Observations of neutron stars and related effects (X-ray bursts, gamma ray burst, X-ray pulsars, kilonovae)
- Literature
- required literature
- Shapiro S. L., Teukolski S. A. Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars. The Physics of Compact Objects. A Wiley, Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1983
- Weber, F. Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Partlicle Physics, IoP, 1999
- recommended literature
- Mikulášek, Z. Úvod do fyziky hvězd a hvězdných soustav, skripta, Brno, 2000
- Ghosh P. Rotation and accretion powered pulsars, World Scientific, Singapore, 2007
- Glendening N. K. Compact stars, Springer, 1997
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, problem solving
- Assessment methods
- participation and problem solving, submission of home assignments oral exam - discussion of home asignments
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (winter 2020, recent)
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