• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9

Here is the plan as we see it now, it is, of course, subject to revision as the course progresses.

Week 1 - The Discovery of Neutron Stars

• ``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 .

• ``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 .

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 .

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

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

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 .

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

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

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 .

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

• ``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 .

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 .

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

• ``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.

Week 6 - Exoplanets I

Week 7 - Exoplanets II

Week 8 - Exoplanets III

Week 9 - Exoplanets IV

Week 10 - Cosmology I

Week 11 - Cosmology II

Week 12 - Cosmology III

• ``Primeval Adiabatic Perturbation in an Expanding Universe''
  [ ADS, PDF ]
  REF: Peebles, P. J. E., Yu, J. T. 1970, Astrophys. J., 162, 815-+ .

Week 13 - Cosmology IV