ASTR 406, Stellar Structure and Evolution

Classes are in ATL 1114 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:15.

My lecture notes:

• Lecture 1: Course content and philosophy
• Lecture 2: The virial theorem Textbook reading: HKT 1.3
• Lecture 3: Equations of stellar structure Textbook reading: HKT 1.1, 1.5
• Lecture 4: Stellar energy sources; gravitation Textbook reading: HKT 6.1
• Lecture 5: Basics of thermonuclear fusion Textbook reading: HKT 6.2
• Lecture 6: Specific fusion reactions Textbook reading: HKT 6.3 through 6.8 (skim)
• Lecture 7: Equation of state 1: introduction Textbook reading: HKT 3.1 through 3.4
• Lecture 8: Equation of state 2: degeneracy and interactions HKT 3.5
• Lecture 9: Equation of state 3: intractions and high density HKT 3.6
• Lecture 10: Energy transfer and opacities HKT 4.1
• Lecture 11: Radiative opacities HKT 4.4
• Lecture 12: Conductive opacity HKT 4.5
• Lecture 13: Convection HKT 5
• Lecture 14: Measuring neutron star masses and radii
• Lecture 15: Introduction to star formation HKT 2.14
• Lecture 16: Theory of star formation
• Lecture 17: From collapse to the main sequence
• Lecture 18: Evolution of solitary stars
• Lecture 19: Evolution of intermediate-mass and high-mass stars
• Lecture 20: General relativity
• Lecture 21: Black holes
• Lecture 22: Binary stars
• Lecture 23: Stellar modeling
• Lecture 24: The Sun, and rotation
• Lecture 25: Neutrinos

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