Lectures at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua (2024)

Lecture 1. Neutron stars. Introduction.
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Lecture 2. Neutron stars. Kick velocity.
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Lecture 3. Neutron stars. Glitches and precession.
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Lecture 4. Neutron stars. Magnetic field evolution.
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Lecture 5. Neutron stars. Surface emission.
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Lecture 6. Neutron stars. Magnetars.
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Lecture 7. Black holes. Introduction.
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Lecture 8. Black holes. Supermassive BHs.
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Lecture 9. Black holes. Seeds, growth, binary SMBHs, coalescence, GW rocket.
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Lecture 10. Black holes. Jets, TDE, disc structure, lensing and lines.
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Lecture 11. Black holes. Primordial black holes.
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Lecture 12. Binary systems. Properties of binary systems.
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Lecture 13. Binary systems. Magnetars in binaries.
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Lecture 14. Binary systems. Black hole binaries.
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Lecture 15. Population synthesis.
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Papers to read:

  • Basic properties of NSs: Gordon Baym, Frederick K. Lamb ``Neutron Stars'' physics/0503245
  • Types of NSs: Rigoselli ``X-ray observations of Isolated Neutron Stars'' arXiv: 2402.14442
  • Glitches: Link et al. ``Probing the Neutron Star Interior with Glitches'' astro-ph/0001245
  • Precession: Link ``Precession of Isolated Neutron Stars'' astro-ph/0211182
  • Magnetic field evolution: Igoshev et al. ``Evolution of neutron star magnetic fields'' arXiv: 2109.05584
  • Fallback: Abolmasov et al. ``Spin evolution of neutron stars'' arXiv: 2402.04331, Sec. 2
  • Thermal emission: Zavlin ``Thermal emission from isolated neutron stars: theoretical and observational aspects'' astro-ph/0702426
  • Atmospheres: Zavlin, Pavlov ``Modeling Neutron Star Atmospheres'' astro-ph/0206025
  • Magnetars: Negro et al. ``The role of magnetar transient activity in time-domain and multimessenger astronomy'' arXiv: 2406.04967
  • Black hole definitions: Curiel ``The Many Definitions of a Black Hole'' arXiv: 1808.01507
  • Basics of black holes: Bambi ``Astrophysical Black Holes: A Review'' arXiv: 1906.03871
  • Black hole shadow: Bronzwaer, Falcke ``The nature of black hole shadows'' arXiv: 2108.03966
  • SMBHs: Volonteri et al. ``The origins of massive black holes'' arXiv: 2110.10175
  • AGN: Padovani et al. ``Active Galactic Nuclei: what's in a name?'' arXiv: 1707.07134
  • TDE: Gezari ``Tidal Disruption Events'' arXiv: 2104.14580
  • Iron line: Paredes ``Black Holes in the Galaxy'' arXiv: 0907.3602 (just sec. 5.3!)
  • PBHs: Carr, Green ``The History of Primordial Black Holes'' arXiv: 2406.05736
  • PBHs: Carr et al. ``Constraints on Primordial Black Holes'' arXiv: 2002.12778
  • BHs and NSs in binaries: Psaltis ``Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes: A Decade of Discoveries'' arXiv: astro-ph/0410536
  • Magnetars in binaries: Popov ``High magnetic field neutron stars and magnetars in binary system'' arXiv: 2201.07507
  • BH binaries: Kalemci et al. ``Black holes: Timing and spectral properties and evolution'' arXiv: 2206.14410
  • BH spins and QPOs: Reynolds ``Observational Constraints on Black Hole Spin'' arXiv: 2011.08948
  • ULX: King et al. ``Ultraluminous X-ray sources'' arxiv: 2302.10605