EOAVENPVB7 Compact Stars

Institute of physics in Opava
winter 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Urbanec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Monika Matuszková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martin Urbanec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Martin Urbanec, Ph.D.
Institute of physics in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( FAKULTA ( FU )&& SOUHLAS )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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
  • Ghosh P. Rotation and accretion powered pulsars, World Scientific, Singapore, 2007
  • Mikulášek, Z. Úvod do fyziky hvězd a hvězdných soustav, skripta, Brno, 2000
  • 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
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Erasmus
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