Reading material & lecture notes [schedule, main page]

Accretion discs [Marek Abramowicz: schedule]

Scholarpedia: Accretion Discs,
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Accretion_discs

Steven A. Balbus, 2003, Enhanced Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 41, 555-597 [ADS, copy, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306208]

Omer Blaes, 2003, Physics fundamentals of luminous accretion disks around black holes, Les Houches-Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique 78, 137-185 (2003) [ADS, copy, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211368]

Gordon Ogilvie, 2005, Accretion discs, Mathematical Tripos, Part III Lent Term 2005, Cambridge University, http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gio10/accretion.html

Additional reading about General Relativity

Bernard F. Schutz, 2009, A First Course in General Relativity , Cambridge University Press [copy]

Edmund Bertschinger, 1999, Introduction to Tensor Calculus for General Relativity , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Physics 8.962 [copy]

Neutron stars and X-ray bursts [Juri Poutanen]

Feryal Ozel, 2012, Surface Emission from Neutron Stars and Implications for the Physics of their Interiors, Reports on Progress in Physics, to appear [arXiv, copy]

A. Patruno, A. L. Watts, 2012, Accreting Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars [arXiv, copy]

Walter H. G. Lewin, Jan van Paradijs, Ronald E. Taam, 1993, [ADS, copy] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993SSRv...62..223L

Anna L. Watts, 2012, Thermonuclear Burst Oscillations, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 50, 609-640 [ADS, copy]

High energy cosmic rays [Michael Kachelrieß]

M. Kachelrieß, 2008, Lecture notes on high energy cosmic rays, 17th Jyväskylä Summer School [arXiv, copy]

Gravitational Waves [B. S. Sathyaprakash (Sathya)]

Michele Maggiore, 2007, Gravitational Waves: Volume 1: Theory and Experiments, Oxford University Press, USA

B. S. Sathyaprakash and Bernard F. Schutz, 2009, Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves, Living Rev. Relativity, 12, 2 [ADS, copy]

B. Sathyaprakash et al., 2012, Scientific objectives of Einstein Telescope, Class. Quantum Grav. 29 124013 [ADS, copy]

Compact binary mergers & multi-messenger picture [Stephan Rosswog]

S. Rosswog, Compact binary mergers: an astrophysical perspective [arXiv, copy]

S. Rosswog, T. Piran, E. Nakar, 2012, The multi-messenger picture of compact object encounters, [arXiv, copy]

Stephan Rosswog, 2009, Astrophysical smooth particle hydrodynamics, New Astron. Rev. 53, 78-104 [ADS, copy]

GRBs: The fireball model and Fermi observations [Felix Ryde]

Hard X-ray polarimetry [Mark Pearce]

Particle-in-cell simulations [Gareth Murphy]

Afternoon seminars