Notes were handed out in class, so if you didn't get them please ask me for a copy. In the second lecture this week we covered accretion phenomena, and went through the answers to the questions from Week 4. This week's lectures summarise the important results in Compton and inverse Compton scattering. The first of this week's lectures look at some examples of comptonisation in detail. We look at the re-heating of the Universe, radio lobes of Galaxies and the comptonisation of cosmic background photons, and the Crab nebula.
Examples are star formation regions and planetary nebulae.
This week we looked at pulsars. This week we looked at cosmic rays, using notes from the excellent web site of the Fly's eye experiment. This week we looked at the answers to the exercises on pulsars, the exam results, and finally anti-matter. The exam is on May 14th.