| Course | Dates | Credits |
| Extragalactic Astrophysics | 27 Feb - 27 Mar | 11 |
| Lecturers | ||
| Gianfranco De Zotti |
Program:
1. Diffuse emissions on a cosmic scale
2. General properties of astrophysical background radiations
3. Background energy density in different frequency bands and comparison with the
energetics of stellar and AGN processes
4. Formalism for the study of astrophysical background radiations
5. Clustering of extragalactic sources
6. The radio background. Astrophysical properties of radio sources
7. The optical/IR background. Relationships with the evolutionary history of
galaxies
8. The UV background. The Gunn-Peterson effect
9. The X-ray background. Physics of the X-ray emission of AGNs
10. The X-ray background
11. Models for the origin of the background in different energy ranges
Prerequisites:
Books:
Online Resources:
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backgrounds_13.pdf | 19.4 MB | Apr 10 2013 4:04 PM |