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)