ASTRO 410: Black Holes
Spring 2021
Lecture: Tuesday
Location:
RITA, room 363
Time: Tuesday 4:30-5:20 pm
Instructor: Dr. George
Chartas
Office: RITA,
room 307
Office
hours: T : 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Phone: (843)
953-3609
Email:
chartasg@cofc.edu
Schedule
The recommended textbook for the course is
Gravity’s Fatal Attraction, Black Holes in the Universe Third Edition by
Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees. A second 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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Lecture |
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12 Jan |
Projects / Special Relativity |
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19 Jan |
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26 Jan |
Black Hole Mass Estimates |
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2 Feb |
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9 Feb |
Black Hole Accretion Disks |
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16 Feb |
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23 Feb |
Frame Dragging |
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2 Mar |
Review and Study Day. No classes. |
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9 Mar |
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Project Summaries |
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16 Mar |
Quantum Black Holes |
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23 Mar |
Imaging a Black Hole |
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30 Mar |
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6 Apr |
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Presentations I |
1. Jaime Review past, current and planned experiments of measuring frame dragging. 2. Cam Use X-ray spectroscopic
observations to constrain the energetics of the powerful outflow of the Narrow Line Seyfert Galaxy Mrk 1044 |
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13 Apr |
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Presentations II |
1. Erika Simulate the UV-optical
emission spectrum of an AGNs accretion disk. 2. Jessica Provide a review of
theories describing Black Hole singularities
and wormholes. |
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20 Apr |
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Presentations III |
1. Katrina Provide a thorough
review of black hole entropy and Hawking radiation. Provide a review of the information paradox: Does information disappear forever when it crosses the event horizon of a black hole? 2. Filippo Model a sample of
gravitationally lensed quasars to constrain their time
delays, magnifications, and properties of the lensing galaxy. |
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22 Apr |
Reading Day |
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27 Apr |
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Project Reports Due |
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