Lecture notes

Gravitational Waves

Monograph lecture for Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PhD students, winter semester 2020:

• History of gravity theories
• Introduction to general relativity
• Detection principles
• Detectors
• Binary systems
• Bursts and continuous waves
• Populations and cosmology
• Stochastic background. Testing GR
• Signal processing
• Parameter estimation

Relativistic Astrophysics and Related Computational Methods

Monograph lecture for Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PhD students, spring semester 2014:

• Introduction to numerical methods
• Introduction to hydrodynamics
• Introduction to general relativity
• Relativistic stars I: neutron stars’ interior, spherical configurations
• Relativistic stars II: rotation, phase transitions
• Instabilities
• Supernovae and shocks
• Black holes
• Gravitational waves