Introductions
Welcome
Preview of Coming Attractions
The Dawn of Multimessenger Astrophysics
- GW150914: birth of gravitational wave astronomy
- GW20171016: kilonova/GRB gravity wave source identified!
The Poor Person's Accelerator: Particle dark matter
- WIMP direct searches: Super CDMS, Xenon
- indirect probes: the Galactic center in high-energy photons
- H.E.S.S. detection of
TeV gamma-rays and
- H.E.S.S. detection of
TeV gamma-rays and
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- O'Meara+ (2001) high redshift observations of deuterium observed at
- connections with CMB anisotropies
Messengers Beyond Photons: Neutrinos
- Super-Kamiokande detection of Solar neutrinos
- Ice Cube detection of high-energy extragalactic neutrinos
- supernova neutrinos from SN 1987A
- geoneutrinos from the radioactive Earth
- primordial neutrinos: background analagous to that in photons
Stellar Nucleosynthesis
- Massive stars and supernovae as heavy element factories: Cas A X-ray element maps
- even some near misses
Messengers Beyond Photons: Cosmic rays
- Galactic
cosmic rays
signatures on the gamma-ray sky - ultra-high-energy cosmic rays:
Auger experiment; sky map: birth of cosmic ray astronomy?
The History of Cosmic Matter
- Written onto the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (telescope=time machine)
- Growth of heavy elements: the circle, the circle of life
Terrestrial Accelerators: Early Universe Telescopes
- current recordholder is in the
Great State of Illinois
rings, tunnel, detector - CERN's Large Hadronic Collider (LHC); detector: end-on, real-time
Syllabus
ASTR 496 NPA Syllabus Addendum
