Astronomy 453
Introduction to Stellar Structure and Atmospheres
Fall 2012
Prof. Mamajek
Main textbook: Hansen, Kawaler, & Trimble "Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution" (2004, 2nd edition).
In the lectures and notes, I will also list some suggested reading from other texts that are on reserve in the POA library - see bibliography of texts related to stellar structure, evolution, and atmospheres.

Star Links

Recent ARA&A reviews in inverse chronological order

Constants and Stellar Parameters

Fundamental physical constants (CODATA)
Mamajek's Basic Astronomical Data for the Sun (BADS)
IAU (2009) System of Astronomical Constants
Astronomical Almanac constants
Mamajek's modern stellar color and effective temperature scale for O9V-Y0V main sequence stars

Stars (Data)

SIMBAD (CDS): bibliographic data for stars, and useful for resolving names <=> stellar positions.
VizieR (CDS): query databases for data on your star.
Johnson & Morgan (1953, ApJ, 117, 313): "Johnson" photometry of MK spectral standards
Bessell (1979, PASP, 91, 589): modern flux calibration of UBVRI photometry
Open cluster databases: WEBDA and Dias et al. catalog
Globular cluster catalog by W. Harris
Solar fusion cross sections II: the pp chain and CNO cycles: 2010 review by Adelberger et al.

Stars (binary)

Terry Herter's binary star simulator
Malkov (1993) binary star data
Torres, Andersen, Gimenez (2010, A&ARv, 18, 67): "Accurate masses and radii of normal stars: modern results and applications"

Stars (spectral classification)

Richard Gray's Digital Spectral Classification Atlas
Neill Reid's Spectral Classification of Late-Type Dwarfs

Stars (theory)

Fowler (1926, MNRAS, 87, 114): EOS of nonrelativistic degenerate gas
Chandrasekhar (1931, ApJ, 74, 81): maximum mass of white dwarfs
Bethe (1939, Phy. Rev. 55, 434): "Energy Production in Stars"
Schonberg & Chandrasekhar (1942, ApJ, 96, 161): on the size of the isothermal core that forms as H is exhausted
Hoyle (1954, ApJS, 1, 121): triple alpha reaction
Burbidge, Burbidge, Hoyle, Fowler (1957, Rev. Mod. Phys., 29, 547): "B2FH" Synthesis of the Elements in Stars
Hayashi, Hoshi, Sugimoto (1962, Prog. Theo. Phys. Sup., 22, 1): "Evolution of the Stars"
Iben (1967, ARA&A, 5, 571): "Stellar Evolution Within and Off the Main Sequence"
Kurucz (1979, ApJS, 40, 1): "Model atmospheres for G, F, A, B, and O stars"
Mitalas & Sills (1992, ApJ 401, 759): "On the Photon Diffusion Time Scale for the Sun"
Mayer & Duschl (2005, MNRAS, 358, 614): "Rosseland and Planck Mean Opacities for Primordial Matter"
Gustafsson et al. (2008, A&A, 486, 951, 970): "A grid of MARCS model atmospheres for late-type stars. I. Methods and general properties" Wiescher, Kappeler, & Langanke (2012, ARA&A, 50, 165): "Critical Reactions in Contemporary Nuclear Astrophysics"

Protostars and Early Stellar Evolution

Jeans (1902, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., 199, 312): "The Stability of a Spherical Nebula"
Shu (1977, ApJ, 214, 488): "Self-similar collapse of isothermal spheres and star formation"
Stahler (1983, ApJ, 274, 822): "The birthline for low-mass stars"
Shu, Adams, & Lizano (1987, ARA&A, 25, 23): "Star formation in molecular clouds - observation & theory" (review)
Adams, Lada, Shu (1988, ApJ, 312, 788): "Spectral evolution of young stellar objects"
Stahler (1988, ApJ, 332, 804): "Deteurium and the stellar birthline"
Palla & Stahler (1993, ApJ, 418, 414): "The pre-MS evolution of intermediate-mass stars"
Shu et al. (1994, ApJ, 429, 781): "Magnetocentrifugally driven flows from young stars and disks"
Kenyon & Hartmann (1995, ApJS, 101, 117: "Pre-MS evolution in the Tau-Aur molecular cloud"
Hartmann & Kenyon (1996, ARA&A, 34, 207: "The FU Ori phenomena" (review)
Kennicutt (1998, ARA&A, 36, 189): Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence (review)
Ushomirsky et al. (1998, ApJ, 497, 253: "Light element depletion in contracting brown dwarfs and pre-MS stars"
Hartmann, Calvet, Gullbring, & D'Alessio (1998, ApJ, 495, 385): "Accretion and the evolution of T Tauri disks"
McKee & Ostriker (2007, ARA&A, 45, 565): "Theory of star formation" (review)

Stellar Death

"Supernova 1987A" (Arnett, Bahcall, Kirshner, & Woosley 1989, ARA&A, 27, 629)
"Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae" (Smartt 2009, ARA&A, 47, 63)
"The Supernova Gamma-Ray Burst Connection" (Woosley & Bloom 2006, ARA&A, 44, 507)