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By week:

Here is the plan as I see it now, it is, of course, subject to revision as the start date of the course approaches.

Week 1 - The Discovery of Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Bursts

  • ``Evidence for X Rays from Sources outside the Solar System''
    [ ADS, APS, PDF ]
    REF: Giacconi, R., Gursky, H., Paolini, F., Rossi, B. 1962, Physical Review Letters, 9, 439 . Top

  • ``3C 273 : A Star-Like Object with Large Redshift''
    [ PDF ]
    REF: Schmidt, M. 1963, Nature, 197, 1040 . Top

  • ``Red-Shift of the Unusual Radio Source : 3C 48''
    [ PDF ]
    REF: Greenstein, J. L., Matthews, T. A. 1963, Nature, 197, 1041 . Top

  • ``Observations of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source''
    [ PDF ]
    REF: Hewish, A., Bell, S. J., Pilkington, J., Scott, P. F., Collins, R. A. 1968, Nature, 217, 709 . Top

  • ``Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Klebesadel, R., Strong, I. B., Olson, R. A. 1973, Astrophys. J. Lett., 182, L85 . Top

Week 2 - Rotation-Powered Neutron Stars

  • ``Rotating Neutron Stars as the Origin of the Pulsating Radio Sources''
    [ PDF ]
    REF: Gold, T. 1968, Nature, 218, 731 . Top

  • ``Rotating Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Supernova Remnants''
    [ PDF ]
    REF: Pacini, F. 1968, Nature, 219, 145 . Top

  • ``Pulsar Electrodynamics''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Goldreich, P., Julian, W. 1969, Astrophys. J., 157, 869
    Read Sections I, II, III(a) and IV only. Top

Week 3 - The Structure of Neutron Stars

  • ``On Massive Neutron Cores''
    [ ADS, APS, PDF ]
    REF: Oppenheimer, J., Volkoff, G. 1939, Physical Review, 55, 374-381 . Top

  • ``Neutron Star Structure and the Equation of State''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Lattimer, J. M., Prakash, M. 2001, Astrophys. J., 550, 426-442 . Top

  • ``Neutron Star Structure''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Pethick, C. J., Ravenhall, D. G. 1998, . Top

Week 4 - Neutron-Star Cooling and Heating

  • ``Surface X-Ray Emission from Neutron Stars''
    [ ADS, APS, PDF ]
    REF: Chiu, H., Salpeter, E. E. 1964, Physical Review Letters, 12, 413-415 . Top

  • ``Analytical Models of Neutron Star Envelopes''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Hernquist, L., Applegate, J. H. 1984, ApJ, 287, 244 . Top

  • ``Almost Analtyic Models of Ultramagnetized Neutron Star Envelopes''
    [ ADS, astro-ph/9805175, PostScript, PDF , Java ]
    REF: Heyl, J. S., Hernquist, L. 1998, Mon. Not. Royal Astr. Soc., 300, 599 . Top

Week 5 - Accreting Neutron Stars

  • ``Disk accretion by magnetic neutron stars''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: .Ghosh, P., Lamb, F. K. 1978, Astrophys. J. Lett., 223, L83-L87 . Top

  • ``Theory and Observations of Type I X-Ray Bursts from Neutron Stars''
    [ PDF ]
    REF: Bildsten, L. 2000, . Top

  • ``On spherically symmetrical accretion''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Bondi, H. 1952, Mon. Not. Royal Astr. Soc., 112, 195-+
    You don't need to read this paper, but I will try to cover it in class. Top

Week 6 - Class Suggestion and Project Discussion

Week 7 - Millisecond Pulsars

  • ``A millisecond pulsar''
    [ ADS ]
    REF: Backer, D. C., Kulkarni, S. R., Heiles, C., Davis, M. M., Goss, W. M. 1982, Nature, 300, 615-618 . Top

  • ``Models for the Formation of Binary and Millisecond Pulsars''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Bhattacharya, D. 1996, , , 243-256 . Top

Week 8 - Black Holes

  • ``The Schwarzschild black hole: a general relativistic introduction''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Heinicke, C., Hehl, F. W. 2003, , , 3-0837
    Don't worry about the content of the red boxes.. Top

Week 9 - Stellar Black Holes

  • ``Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance.''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Shakura, N. I., Sunyaev, R. A. 1973, A & A, 24, 337-355 . Top

  • ``New Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons from Chandra''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Garcia, M. R., McClintock, J. E., Narayan, R., Callanan, P., Barret, D., Murray, S. S. 2001, Astrophys. J. Lett., 553, L47-L50 . Top

Week 10 - Supermassive Black Holes

  • ``A Structure for Quasars''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Elvis, M. 2000, Astrophys. J., 545, 63-76 . Top

Week 11 - The Gamma-Ray Burst Controversy

  • ``On the Galactic disk and halo models of gamma-ray bursts''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Mao, S., Paczynski, B. 1992, Astrophys. J. Lett., 389, L13-L16 . Top

  • ``On the cosmological origin of gamma-ray bursts''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Mao, S., Paczynski, B. 1992, Astrophys. J. Lett., 388, L45-L48 . Top

Week 12 - Understanding Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts

  • ``Spectral constraints on the redshift of the optical counterpart to the gamma-ray burst of 8 May 1997.''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Metzger, M. R., others, 1997, Nature, 387, 878-880 . Top

  • ``Gamma-ray bursts from stellar mass accretion disks around black holes''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Woosley, S. E. 1993, Astrophys. J., 405, 273-277 . Top

Week 13 - Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows

  • ``Beaming in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for a Standard Energy Reservoir''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Frail, D. A., others, 2001, Astrophys. J. Lett., 562, L55-L58 . Top

  • ``Spectra and Light Curves of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Sari, R., Piran, T., Narayan, R. 1998, Astrophys. J. Lett., 497, L17+ . Top

  • ``Hydrodynamic Timescales and Temporal Structure of Gamma-Ray Bursts''
    [ ADS, PDF ]
    REF: Sari, R., Piran, T. 1995, Astrophys. J. Lett., 455, L143+ . Top

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