High Energy

High energy and gravitational wave astrophysics, transient astrophysics, and astroparticle physics.

Textbooks + Longer Articles

• Radiation Processes in High Energy Astrophysics by Gabriele Ghisellini
• The Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomer by Stephen R. Taylor
• Astrophysical Processes by Jeremy Heyl (part of the Open Astrophysics Bookshelf)
• A Beginner’s Guide to Black Hole Imaging and Associated Tests of General Relativity by Lupsasca et al.
• Observed Gravitational-Wave Populations (Callister) and Type Ia supernovae (Blondin) chapters from the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
• Space-based Ultra-High Energy Cosmic-Ray Experiments (Krizmanic)

Lecture Materials + Course Notes

• Notes from UCSD’s Physics 161: Black Holes by Daniel Green
• Particle Acceleration at Shocks: An Introduction by Damiano Caprioli
• Particle acceleration in pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae by Elena Amato
• Graduate PH 362: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics – lecture videos and notes, assignments, + exams – by Prateek Sharma at IISc Bangalore
• Cambridge Lectures on the Standard Model by Fernando Quevedo and Andreas Schachner, produced for Part III of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos
• Complete course notes, assignments, and exams for General Relativity by Daniel Baumann

Visualizations

• Gravitational wave observational coverage from Astronomy Magazine
• Interactive duration-luminosity phase space of transients and variables in the optical by Ashley Villar and the X-ray by Ava Polzin
• Schwarzschild trajectories by Ricky Reusser (+ other interactives/visualizations)