Astrophysical Radiative Processes

Shih-Ping Lai

Class Schedule

Goals

What is radiation?

How to produce radiation?

Interaction between radiation and matter

Derive the physical conditions/properties of the emitting regions

ContentRadiation Transfer: specific intensity, transfer equation, opacity, diffusion, scattering

The emission, absorption, and scattering of radiation by matter

Statistical mechanics of matter and radiation: LTE. level populations, rate equations

Atomic and molecular radiation: energy levels, Einstein coefficients, oscillator strengths, line broadening

Plasma radiations: bremsstrahlung (free-free emission), synchrotron emission, Compton scattering, EM wave propagations in plasmas