ASTR 210: Black Holes in the Universe
Section 1, Spring 2023
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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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. 2 |
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30 Jan |
Ch. 3 Black Holes in our
Backyard |
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1 Feb |
Ch. 3 |
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3 Feb |
Ch. 3 |
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6 Feb |
Ch. 4 Galaxies and Their Nuclei |
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8 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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10 Feb |
Ch. 4 |
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13 Feb |
Ch. 5 Quasars and Kin |
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15 Feb |
Test 1, chapters 1-4 |
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17 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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20 Feb |
Ch. 5 |
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22 Feb |
Ch. 6 Jets |
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24 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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27 Feb |
Ch. 6 |
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1 Mar |
Ch. 7 Blasts from the Past |
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3 Mar |
Ch. 7 |
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6 Mar |
Spring Break, no classes |
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8 Mar |
Spring Break, no classes |
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10 Mar |
Spring Break, no classes |
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13 Mar |
Ch. 8 Black Holes in Hibernation |
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15 Mar |
Presentations I |
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1. Title: Measuring the mass of the supermassive black hole SgrA*, Cameron
Fish, Rhian Purves, and Aly Nida |
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17 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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20 Mar |
Ch. 8 |
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22 Mar |
Presentations II |
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2. Title: Direct Imaging of a SMBH (Event
Horizon Telescope), Jordan Familant, Hayden Stornant, and Caleb
Carbon 3. Title: How did
the first supermassive black holes (SMBHs) form? Grant Niles,
Chaele Swanson, Deena Elraie |
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24 Mar |
Ch. 9 Cosmic Feedback |
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27 Mar |
Test 2, chapters 5-8 |
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29 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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31 Mar |
Ch. 9 |
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3 Apr |
Presentations III |
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4. Title: Quantum (primordial) black holes, Kaitlyn
Reddick, Mel Reddick 5. Title: Wormholes, Christina Nguyen, Drew Hogan and Nicholas
Papa |
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5 Apr |
Ch. 10 Postcards from the Edge |
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7 Apr |
Ch. 10 |
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10 Apr |
Ch. 11 Gravitational Waves |
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12 Apr |
Presentations IV |
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6. Title: Extreme effects near a black hole: spaghettification, strong
curvature of light, apparent stoppage of time, Penn Stanton,
Ryleigh Pencarinha 7. Title: Information Paradox Cesare Harvey,
Kennedy Ross, Gabbi Drusin |
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14 Apr |
Test 3, chapters 9-11 |
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17 Apr |
Ch. 11 |
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19 Apr |
Ch. 12 Through the Horizon |
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21 Apr |
Ch. 12 |
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24 Apr |
Neutrino Astronomy (IceCube) |
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26 Apr |
Review and last day of class |
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1 May |
FINAL EXAM (3:30pm - 5:30pm) |
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Final on chapters 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12 |
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