Introduction to Astrophysics: the Sun, Stars, Galaxies, & Cosmology – Program

My lectures:

• Introduction
• First week
• Second week
• Third week
• Fourth week
• Fifth week
• Sixth week
• Seventh week
• Eighth week
• Nineth week
• Tenth week

Additional lectures:

• The Sun I, by Silvia Perri
• The Sun II, by Silvia Perri
• The internal structure of the Sun, by Francesco Malara
• Gravitational lensing, by Silvia Perri

My notes:

• Stars and the Milky Way
• Galaxies, Active Galaxy Nuclei, the Large Scale Structure, Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Cosmic Background Radiation, the model of the Big Bang
• Additional material: the Cosmic Background Radiation

Extra lectures:

• First detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding meutron stars with LIGO & Virgo (with Luciano Nicastro & Eliana Palazzi, INAF Bologna)