ASTRO 210: Black Holes in the Universe
Section 1, Spring 2017
Lecture: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Location:
J. C. Long, room 219
Time: MWF 2:00-2:50 pm
Instructor: Dr. George
Chartas
Office: 206 J.
C. Long
Office
hours: MWF : 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Phone: (843)
953-3609
Email:
chartasg@cofc.edu
Schedule
The required textbook for the course is GravityŐs
Fatal Attraction, Black Holes in the Universe Second Edition by Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees. Recommended textbook for the
course is Black Holes and Time Warps, EinsteinŐs Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne.
Please let me know if you have a conflict with any of the test and final exam
dates.
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11 Jan |
Ch. 1 Gravity Triumphant |
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13 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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16 Jan |
Martin Luther King Holiday observed -- No Classes |
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18 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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20 Jan |
Ch. 2 Stars and Their Fates |
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23 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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25 Jan |
Ch. 2 |
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27 Jan |
Ch. 3 Black Holes in our
Backyard |
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30 Jan |
Ch. 3 |
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1 Feb |
Ch. 3 |
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3 Feb |
Ch. 4 Galaxies and Their Nuclei |
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6 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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8 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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10 Feb |
Ch. 5 Quasars and Kin |
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13 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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15 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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17 Feb |
Test 1, chapters 1-5 |
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20 Feb |
Ch. 6 Jets |
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22 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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24 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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27 Feb |
Ch. 7 Blasts from the Past |
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1 Mar |
Ch. 7 |
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3 Mar |
Ch. 7 |
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6 Mar |
Spring Break |
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8 Mar |
Spring Break |
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10 Mar |
Spring Break |
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13 Mar |
Presentations I |
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Title: SgrA*: The supermassive
black hole in the Galactic center (Shaina Mae Mainar, Kathryn Dolan) Title: Magnetic Fields in
the Vicinity of Black Holes (Grayson Lovelace, Samantha Horodecki) |
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15 Mar |
Ch. 8 Black Holes in
Hibernation |
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17 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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20 Mar |
Presentations II |
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Title: Binary supermassive
black holes (Annalyn Kohler ,
Logan Avera) Title: The maximum mass of
a neutron star and efforts to measure the fundamental properties of neutron
stars. (Balley Kindrick,
Hannah Broder) |
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22 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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23 Mar |
Last day for students to withdraw with a grade of "W" from
full semester classes. |
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24 Mar |
Test 2, chapters 6-8 |
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27 Mar |
Ch. 9 Cosmic Feedback |
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29 Mar |
Presentations III |
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Title: The Theory of
Cosmological Natural Selection (Paul Miller, Grace Waddell) Title:
Modern
tests of special and general relativity (Drew Ayers) |
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31 Apr |
Ch. 9 |
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3 Apr |
Presentations IV |
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Title: Supernovae and Hypernovae in the Universe (Matt Reale,
Sean Quinn) Title: Black Hole Interiors and Singularities (Vincent James, Taylor Daniels) |
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5 Apr |
Ch. 10 Checking up on Einstein |
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7 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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10 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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12 Apr |
Presentations V |
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Title: Effects Near Black
Holes (Michaela McCarthy, Lucille Williamson) Title: Black Hole Entropy
and Hawking Radiation (Eric Davidson, Manuel Canas, Lukas Zalesky) |
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14 Apr |
Ch. 11 Through the Horizon |
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17 Apr |
Test 3, chapters 9-10 |
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19 Apr |
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Title: The Discovery of
Gravitational Waves Jacob Atkins, Dylan Jones, Hunter Kelly |
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21 Apr |
Neutrino Astronomy (IceCube) |
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24 Apr |
Neutrino Astronomy (IceCube) |
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26 Apr |
Review |
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27 Apr |
READING DAY |
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1 May |
FINAL EXAM (12:00pm–3:00pm) |
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