ASTR 606, Stellar Structure and Evolution
Spring 2002
Herein thou shalt learn the mysteries of the guts of stars,
their lifetimes, and their eventual fate.
Due to the instructor's shameless bias, there will be more
material on compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and
black holes) than is usually presented in such a course.
Policies and course outline
Hints about doing research in
astrophysics
The Ten Commandments of viewgraph
presentation
Additional hints about giving talks
What I hope you learn in the class
Examples of problems involving simplification
My lecture notes:
- Lecture 1: Introduction, approximations
and equilibrium conditions HK 1.1
- Lecture 2: The virial theorem HK 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
- Lecture 3: Dimensional analysis and
homology relations HK 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
- Lecture 4: Stellar energy sources HK 6.1, 6.2;
for more information, see this link
- Lecture 5: Thermonuclear fusion HK 6.2
- Lecture 6: Specific fusion reactions,
pp, CNO, triple-alpha, heavy elements HK 6.3-6.8
- Lecture 7: Introduction to equations
of state HK 3.1-3.4
- Lecture 8: Fermi-Dirac statistics and
degeneracy HK 3.5
- Lecture 9: Interactions and high density HK 3.6
- Lecture 10: Polytropes and opacities HK 4.1, 4.2
- Lecture 11: Radiative opacities HK 4.4
- Lecture 12: H- opacity and conduction HK 4.4, 4.5
- Lecture 13: High densities and strong magnetic
fields
- Lecture 14: Convection
- Lecture 15: Star Formation: Observations
- Lecture 16: Star Formation: Theory
- Lecture 17: From Collapse to the Main
Sequence
- Lecture 18: Evolution of low-mass stars
- Lecture 19: Evolution of intermediate and
high-mass stars
- Lecture 20: General relativity
- Lecture 21: Black holes
- Lecture 22: Evolution of binary stars
- Lecture 23: Numerical modeling of stars
- Lecture 24: The Sun and rotation
- Lecture 25: Neutrinos and asteroseismology
- Lecture 26: Review of course
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