Compact Stars

Recommended Prerequisites

Quantum Mechanics, Nuclear Physics, Statistical Physics, Field Theory.

Teaching Methods

Expository teaching with constant references to observational data, physical models and the mathematical techniques required for the description of compact stars. Emphasis will be on practical computations of numerical equations of state and the corresponding mass/radius diagrams of the various families of stars.

Learning Outcomes

Knowing the physics of compact stars including relativistic equations of hydrostatic equilibrium, properties of compact stars, observational data, description of superdense matter, of rotating neutron stars and of exotic stars.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Hydrostatic Equilibrium conditions.

Compact Stars: from white dwarfs to black holes.

Nuclear Relativistic Field Theory.

Neutron Stars: theory and observational data.

Rotating Neutron Stars.

Strange Stars.

Hybrid Stars.

Bose-Einstein condensation in neutron stars.

Signs and implications of phase transitions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Constança Mendes Pinheiro da Providência Santarém e Costa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 40.0%
Resolution Problems: 60.0%

Bibliography

1- Stuart L. Shapiro e Saul A. Teukolsky, Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars, John Wiley & Sons, 1983.

2- Norman K. Glendenning, Compact Stars, Springer, 2000

3- Prakash, I. Bombaci, M. Prakash, P. J. Ellis, J. M. Lattimer, e R. Knorren, Phys. Rep. 280 (1997) 1

4- Pawe Haensel, A Y Potekhin, D G Yakovlev, Neutron Stars, Springer, 2007