1. Astrophysical Radiative Processes Shih-Ping Lai

2. Class Schedule

3. Goals What is radiation? How to produce radiation? Interaction between radiation and matter Derive the physical conditions/properties of the emitting regions

5. Content Radiation Transfer: specific intensity, transfer equation, opacity, diffusion, scattering The emission, absorption, and scattering of radiation by matter Statistical mechanics of matter and radiation: LTE. level populations, rate equations Atomic and molecular radiation: energy levels, Einstein coefficients, oscillator strengths, line broadening Plasma radiations: bremsstrahlung (free-free emission), synchrotron emission, Compton scattering, EM wave propagations in plasmas