Yale Lectures - Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160)

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