Niel Brandt's Astronomy 597A Page - X-ray Investigations of Active Galaxies: Exploring the Environments of Supermassive Black Holes
Basic Course Materials
Course syllabus
Course schedule
Peer review form for student presentations
Readings Not Available Elsewhere on the WWW
Brandt et al. reading for week 6
Tananbaum reading for week 12
Student Presentations
Bret Lehmer on "Accretion Physics of AGN Disks"
Laura Lopez on "X-ray Reflection and Reprocessing"
Brendan Miller on "X-ray Absorbing Outflows"
Judith Racusin on "X-ray Variability of AGN"
Kenneth Moody on "Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows and Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 AGN"
Emily Alicea-Munoz on "Galactic Black Hole Binaries"
Steve Movit on "AGN Jets"
Manodeep Sinha on "X-rays from the First AGN in the Universe"
Jian Wu on "AGN in X-ray Surveys"
Helene Flohic on "Growth of SMBH Studied through X-ray Surveys"
Relevant Links:
Niel's home page