Taso: syventävät opinnot
Laajuus: 4op
Luennoitsija: FT Tuomas Savolainen, Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
Ajankohta: 30.11 - 16.12

To give students an overview of relativistic jets in astrophysics and the current research on the topic. The emphasis is on jets from active galactic nuclei.

Jets from different types of celestial objects: active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, and x-ray binaries. Relativistic effects. Radiation processes. Jet physics: launching, acceleration, and collimation. Instabilities in jets. Jet composition. Measuring physical properties of jets. Variability of jet emission. Particle acceleration in shocks. Blazar models.

Lectures, exercises, final exam

English or Finnish depending on the audience

30.11 12:00 XVII (Introduction)
1.12 10:00 XVIII (Relativistic effects)
2.12 ~13:00 Tuorla seminar room (Relativistic effects continued, synchrotron radiation; lecture takes place after the Friday seminar)
5.12 14:00 XVI NO LECTURE
7.12. 12:00 XVII (Recap of lectures 2 and 3, synchrotron self-absorption, polarization of synchrotron radiation, applications of synchrotron theory to jets, polarization properties and magnetic fields of jets, inverse Compton scattering)
8.12 10:00 XVIII NO LECTURE
9.12 ~13:00 Tuorla seminar room (Observed structures in jets, opacity effects, instabilities, shocks, jet matter content)
12.12. 14:00 XVI (Blazar variability and blazar models; lecture takes place after the Friday seminar)
14.12. 12:00 XVII (Jet launching, acceleration and collimation)

Exam: 16.12. 12:00 (XVIII)
Course calendar

Problem set 1xfys4281_exercise_1.pdf
Hand in by Monday 12.12.2011

Lecture 1
Slides: xfys4281_lecture_1.pdf
Reading material:
A. Marscher (2010): Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei http://www.bu.edu/blazars/paperstodownload/marscher_bellonibook.pdf
Mirabel & Rodriguez (1999): Sources of Relativistic Jets in the Galaxy http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902062

Lecture 2
Reading material:
Rybicki & Lightman (1979): Ch.4.
G. Ghisellini: Special Relativity at Action in the Universe ghisellini.pdf

Lecture 3
Example slides: xfys4281_lecture_3_examples.pdf
Reading material:
Rybicki & Lightman (1979): Ch.4 and Ch.6.

Lecture 4
Slides: xfys4281_lecture_4.pdf
Reading material:
Rybicki & Lightman (1979): Ch.6 and Ch.7.
DeYoung (2002): Ch. 3.3., Ch. 5.4. and parts of Ch. 6.2.

Lecture 5
Slides: xfys4281_lecture_5.pdf
Reading material:
Belloni (2010): Ch.7. http://www.bu.edu/blazars/paperstodownload/marscher_bellonibook.pdf

Lecture 6
Slides: xfys4281_lecture_6_web.pdf
Reading material:
Belloni (2010): Ch.7. http://www.bu.edu/blazars/paperstodownload/marscher_bellonibook.pdf
M. Tuerler (2010): Shock-in-jet model for quasars and microquasars http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0907
G. Ghisellini (2011): Extragalactic relativistic jets http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0006

Lecture 7
Slides: xfys4281_lecture_7.pdf
Reading material:
Belloni (2010): Ch.9 and Ch.10.

Contact: tsavolainen@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de, (kaj.wiik@utu.fi)