ASTRO 210: Black Holes in the Universe
Section 1, Spring 2021
Lecture: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Location:
RITA, room 363
Time: MWF 2:00 - 2:50 pm
Instructor: Dr. George
Chartas
Office: RITA,
room 307
Office
hours: MWF : 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Phone: (843)
953-3609
Email:
chartasg@cofc.edu
Schedule
The required textbook for the course is Gravity’s
Fatal Attraction, Black Holes in the Universe Third Edition by Mitchell
Begelman and Martin Rees.
Recommended textbook for the course is Black Holes
and Time Warps, Einstein’s 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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15 Jan |
Ch. 1 |
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18 Jan |
Martin Luther King Holiday
observed -- No Classes |
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20 Jan |
Ch. 2 Stars and Their Fates |
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22 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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29 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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5 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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12 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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15 Feb |
Test 1, chapters 1-4 |
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17 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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19 Feb |
Ch. 6 Jets |
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22 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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24 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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26 Mar |
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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5 Mar |
Ch. 8 Black Holes in
Hibernation |
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8 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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10 Mar |
Presentations I |
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1. Title: Wormholes (Chloe
Damron and Ryan Brennan) 2.
Title: Measuring the mass of SgrA* (Nobel prize 2020) (Caleb Ussery) |
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12 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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15 Mar |
Ch. 9 Cosmic Feedback |
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17 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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19 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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22 Mar |
Test 2, chapters 5-8 |
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24 Mar |
Ch. 10 Postcards from the Edge |
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26 Mar |
Presentations II |
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collisions (Nathan Bradley and Nathaniel Elston) 2.
Information Paradox. What happens to information stored in a black hole (Izzy
Beddingfield, Skylar Pope, and Aaron Connor) |
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29 Mar |
Ch. 10 |
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31 Mar |
Presentations III |
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form? (Adyson Kurtz, Fillipo Savoia, Thomas Guy) 2.
Supermassive Black Holes and feedback (Eneko Sancho and William Ross) |
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2 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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5 Apr |
Presentations IV |
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strong curvature of light, apparent stoppage
of time (Aidan Clark, Keegan Cromer, and Quinn
Lareau) 2.
Extracting Energy from a Black Hole (Blandford-Znajek and Penrose processes) (Katrina, Jessica, and Jaime) |
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7 Apr |
Ch. 11 Gravitational Waves |
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9 Apr |
Ch. 12 Through the Horizon |
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12 Apr |
Presentations V |
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Erika Hamilton |
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14 Apr |
Test 3, chapters 9-11 |
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16 Apr |
Neutrino Astronomy (IceCube) |
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19 Apr |
Review and last day of class |
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21 Apr |
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22 Apr |
READING DAY |
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28 Apr |
FINAL EXAM (1:00pm–3:00pm) |
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Final on chapters 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12 |
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