Department of Physics

18308  High Energy Astrophysics    

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS362/

Course Content

• Cosmic Rays: astrophysical sources and propagation.
• Lorentz transformations of radiative quantities: application to relativistic outflows.
• Synchrotron radiation: Emission, self-absorption, astrophysical applications.
• Inverse Compton scattering: Thomson and Klein-Nishina regimes, synchrotron self-Compton process, Comptonization, astrophysical applications.
• Interactions of relativistic protons with matter and radiation: cross sections, production rates of secondaries, astrophysical applications.
• Kinetic equations: general principles, methods for solving the equations, astrophysical applications.