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)