Plasma Effects
- basics: see notes by Richard Fitzpatrick
- plasma frequency
- dispersion and dispersion measure
- awesome example: pulsars
- typical radio signals, distribution on sky
- free electron density map from pulsar ensemble
- Faraday rotation: in the Milky Way, in M31
- Cerenkov radiation
Radiation and Bound States
Atomic Structure
Atomic States
- order of magnitude sketch
- populating electronic states
- awesome example: technetium seen in stars
