High Energy Astrophysics

(4 Credits)

This course covers high energy processes and their application to astrophysical systems and phenomena. How processes, including synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, Thomson and Compton scattering, particle acceleration, pair production, and accretion, contribute to emission from white dwarfs, neutron stars and pulsars, supernovae and supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, gamma ray bursts, X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei (AGN), and galaxy clusters, will be discussed.