Lecture: Physics of Compact Stars
Physics of Compact Stars

Prof. Dr. David Blaschke (Uni Wroclaw)

Summer Semester 2013

Tuesdays, 10-12, Room D6-135
Wednesdays, 12-14, Room D6-135
Fridays, 14-16, Room E6-143 (seminar/consultation)

1. Observations of compact star (CS) properties [09.04.] [10.04.] [Exercises-1]
2. Dense nuclear and quark matter in the CS interior [16.04.] [17.04.] [Exercises-2]
3. Equation of state for the CS crust [23.04.] [24.04.]
4. General relativistic CS structure [08.05.]
5. Neutrino processes and CS cooling
6. CS at birth: Supernovae and protoneutron stars
7. Gravitational wave signals and black hole formation

Literature:
Norman Glendenning: Compact Stars (Springer, 2000)
Pawel Haensel et al.: Neutron Stars (Springer, 2007)
Fridolin Weber: Pulsars as astrophysical laboratories for particle and nuclear physics (IoP Publishing, 1999)
David Blaschke and David Sedrakian (Eds.): Superdense QCD matter and compact stars (Springer, 2006)


Last update: 15. April 2013