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
Prerequisite
PHYS 5392 or consent of department.
Offered
As scheduled