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Tool |
Description |
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Mandel & Agol 2002 |
Standard work on transit light curves, including stellar limb darkening. |
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MATLAB |
Widely-used math spreadsheet, site-licensed for your use. |
MESA and
MESA-Web |
Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics: a professional-grade stellar structure
code, and all of its documentation. We will be using MESA-Web as an
interface to MESA, after gaining
some experience in writing much simpler stellar structure code. |
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Paxton+2010 |
Description of the design and operation of MESA. |
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Radiative transfer
supplement |
Three advanced topics in radiative transfer: the Einstein coefficients,
the Sobolev approximation, and the large-velocity-gradient formalism.
From Dan's ASTR 551 notes. |
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