Lecturer: Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich
WS 2024/25
Lectures: We 2-4pm, Th 10am-11am, room 02.114
Exercises: Th 11am-12pm, room 02.114
Content:
Stellar evolution, Schwarzschild metric, Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations, dense matter, compact stars, white dwarfs, Chandrasekhar mass, pulsars, neutron stars, pulsars, quark stars, hybrid stars, neutron star merger and gravitational waves
The lectures will be based on the textbook
Schaffner-Bielich: Compact Star Physics (Cambridge University Press 2020)