Designed for science and engineering majors. Two 90-minute lectures. Designed for science and engineering majors. Topics include star formation, HII regions, molecular clouds, dust, masers, interstellar chemistry, supernova remnants, shock processes, cosmic ray acceleration and propagation, magnetic fields. Two lectures, one class.
Emphasis is given to numerical modeling of various types of stars.
Review of observational evidence from which properties of the interstellar medium are inferred. Problems considered include physical conditions in interstellar clouds, interstellar shock waves, effects of cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and star formation. Topics my include synchrotron emission and absorption, comptonization, pair plasmas, jets, extragalactic radio sources, compact objects, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. Extragalactic Astronomy A survey course covering the principal current areas of research on extragalactic objects, their physical properties, origin, evolution, and distribution in space. Topics covered include quasar physics, formation, evolution, and clustering of galaxies and the general problem of large-scale structure and motion in the universe.