Materials for the Summer School "Advancing Theoretical Astrophysics"

This repository contains the materials (lecture notes, slides, exercises, etc.) for the summer school "Advancing Theoretical Astrophysics, held July 14-26 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The repository is organized by days. You can find the schedule on the ATA website repository as well as short descriptions of each unit in the longer schedule.

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The password will be written on the board during the Friday wrap-up session.

Computing

The Setup instructions are in this google doc

The VM allocations are in this google sheet

Schedule Overview

A quick overview over which lessons are taught during which day:

Day 1 (15 July 2019)

• Welcome
• Introduction to OoM
• Inventory of Compact Objects
• Conservation Laws using Stars
• Introduction to Data Visualization
• Networking, Upmentoring, Building Support systems

Day 2 (16 July 2019)

• Gaia H-R Diagram Problem
• Estimating key timescales in astrophysical scenarios
• Short primer on fluid dynamics
• Radiative PRocesses 1: Bremsstrahlung + Synchrotron
• Diversity session 1

Day 3 (17 July 2019)

• How an accretion disk forms
• OoM shocks and particle acceleration
• Radiative Processes 2: Inverse Compton
• Version Control with Git

Day 4 (18 July 2019)

• Jet Power and Acceleration
• Diversity session 2
• Compiling, running HARMPI
• How to write an effective research proposal

Day 5 (19 July 2019)

• Orbits + Hill/tidal/Lagrange
• Classical accretion solutions: Bondi and Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton
• Low angular moment accretion
• High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Day 6 (20 July 2019)

• Diversity Session 3

Day 7 (21 July 2019)

• No materials, outing! :)

Day 8 (22 July 2019)

• Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
• Non-linear ODEs: wind equation
• Multinest tutorial
• Selfcare session 1

Day 9 (23 July 2019)

• OoM estimating plasma parameters
• MHD turbulence, viscosity and vorticity
• Selfcare session 2
• How to give a good talk workshop

Day 10 (24 July 2019)

• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Disk-jet connection
• General relativistic ray-tracing, solving PDEs with Runge-Kutta
• HARMPI study of low-luminosity accretion, radiation processes

Day 11 (25 July 2019)

• Derive m-sigma, OoM
• Introduction to Einstein toolkit
• Introduction to multiwavelength SED fitting and ISIS tutorial

Day 12 (26 July 2019)

• Order of magnitude: binary-neutron star mergers and blast waves