FPF:UFDF010 Physical Processes in the Fiel - Course Information
UFDF010 Physical Processes in the Field of Black Holes
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: dzk.
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Stuchlík, CSc.
Centrum interdisciplinárních studií – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - 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
- Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (programme FPF, P1703 Fyz4) (2)
- Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (programme FPF, P1703 Fyz4) (2)
- Course objectives
- Influence of strong gravity in vicinity of black holes on test particles and test fields is presented and some relevant astrophysical applications are discussed.
- Syllabus
- Motion of test particles and fields. Schwarzschild and Kerr geometry, analysis of Carter equations of motion, Metod of effective potentials; influence of electric charge, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman geometry, effective ergosphere, black hole in an external magnetic field; the role of the cosmological constant, cosmological horizon, Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Kerr-de Sitter geometry.
Physical fields in vicinity of black holes. Test scalar, electromagnetic, gravitational and spinor fields. Newman-Penrose formalism, separability of field equations, superradiant modes.
Optical effects in the field of black holes. Black holes as gravitational lenses, deflection of light, estimates of the leasing effect, transverse motion of the lense or the source, light curves of hot spots on the surfaře of accretion disis, spektrum of hot spot or many hot spot radiation, profiled spectral lines.
Gravitational and magnetic effects. Lense-Thirring precession, binary systems and geodesic precession, role of tidal effects in black hole rotation, magnetic effects, Blanford-Znajek process of energy extraction.
- Motion of test particles and fields. Schwarzschild and Kerr geometry, analysis of Carter equations of motion, Metod of effective potentials; influence of electric charge, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman geometry, effective ergosphere, black hole in an external magnetic field; the role of the cosmological constant, cosmological horizon, Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Kerr-de Sitter geometry.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Hawking S.W., Israel W. 300 Years of Gravitation. Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-521-34312-7. info
- Chandrasekhar S. The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes. Clarendon Press, 1983. ISBN 0-226-10100-2. info
- Rindler W. Essential Relativity. Special, General, and Cosmology. Revised 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, 1977. info
- Lightman A.P., Press W.H., Price R.H., Teukolsky S.A. Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation. Princeton Univ. Press, 1975. info
- Misner C.W., Thorne K.S., Wheeler J.A. Gravitation. Freeman and Co, 1973. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- The attendance at lectures is recommended. It can be substituted by
the self-study of recommended literature and individual consultations.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2018, recent)
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