PHYS 8392 Advanced Gravitational Wave Astronomy

This is the second part of a Gravitational Wave Astronomy course sequence covering advanced topics in Multimessenger astrophysics. Among these:

1.               Stellar collapse: Supernovae evolution and classification. GWs from collapse and bounce of rotating cores, GWs from bar-mode instabilities, GWs from anisotropic neutrino emission, GWs from magneto-rotational core collapse,  GWs from fragmentation during collapse.

2.               Neutron stars: Observations of neutron stars, GW emission from neutron stars

3.               Black-hole perturbation theory: Black-hole quasi-normal modes, Perturbations of rotating black holes

4.               GWs from compact binaries, GWs from NS–NS binaries,  Inspiral phase and tidal effects. Observations: GW150914,  Further BH–BH detections. GW170817: the first NS–NS binary, GW observation, Kilonovae and r-process nucleosynthesis

5.               Tests of fundamental physics: BH quasi-normal modes, Tests of post-Newtonian gravity, Propagation and degrees of freedom of GWs.

6.               Supermassive black holes. Cosmology and gravitational waves

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PHYS 5392 or consent of department.

Schedule Type

Lecture

Grading Basis

Standard Letter (A-F)

Administrative Unit

Dept of Physics and Astronomy

Offered

As scheduled