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Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

Charles Bailyn · Yale University

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About

This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.

Lectures

  1. Introduction Lecture 1 · Audio
  2. Planetary Orbits Lecture 2 · Audio
  3. Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem Lecture 3 · Audio
  4. Discovering Exoplanets: Hot Jupiters Lecture 4 · Audio
  5. Planetary Transits Lecture 5 · Audio
  6. Microlensing, Astrometry and Other Methods Lecture 6 · Audio
  7. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Lecture 7 · Audio
  8. The Kepler Mission Update 1 · Audio
  9. Introduction to Black Holes Lecture 8 · Audio
  10. Special and General Relativity Lecture 9 · Audio
  11. Tests of Relativity Lecture 10 · Audio
  12. Special and General Relativity (cont.) Lecture 11 · Audio
  13. Stellar Mass Black Holes Lecture 12 · Audio
  14. Stellar Mass Black Holes (cont.) Lecture 13 · Audio
  15. Pulsars Lecture 14 · Audio
  16. Supermassive Black Holes Lecture 15 · Audio
  17. Do Black Holes Spin? Update 2 · Audio
  18. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang Lecture 16 · Audio
  19. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.) Lecture 17 · Audio
  20. Hubble's Law and the Big Bang (cont.) Lecture 18 · Audio
  21. Omega and the End of the Universe Lecture 19 · Audio
  22. Dark Matter Lecture 20 · Audio
  23. Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe and the Big Rip Lecture 21 · Audio
  24. Supernovae Lecture 22 · Audio
  25. Other Constraints: The Cosmic Microwave Background Lecture 23 · Audio
  26. The Multiverse and Theories of Everything Lecture 24 · Audio
  27. The “Dark Ages” and the Growth of Structure Update 3 · Audio

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Credits and licence

Institution
Yale University
Department
Astronomy
Teacher
Charles Bailyn
Term
Spring 2007
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Astronomy and space
Source
Open Yale Courses
Licence
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