RADIATIVE PROCESSES
PROGRAMME
Maxwell-Boltzmann and Bose-Einstein distributions - Count of
photons in a cavity: the blackbody - Definitions of radiative intensity
and flux - Principles of radiative transfer - Thermal and blackbody radiation -
Einstein coefficients for emission and absorption - Radiative scattering -
Spectral line formation - Line profiles
- Equivalent width and growth curves - Ionization equilibrium: the
Saha equation - Liènard-Wiechert potentials -
Continuum emission processes: bremsstrahlung, sincrotrone, inverse Compton
emissions - Fermi acceleration processes - Polarization and Stokes parameters - Cherenkov radiation.
Recommended textbooks:
Rybicki & Lightman: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics,
John Wiley & Sons
Jackson: Classical Electrodynamics, John Wiley &
Sons
Carrol & Ostlie: An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics,
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company