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Date |
Topic |
Reading |
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1 |
18 Jan 2024 |
Review from ASTR 142: binary stars, empirical stellar masses and stellar
radii |
C&O chapter 7; skim
Mandel & Agol 2002 |
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2 |
23 Jan 2024 |
Partial review from ASTR 142: stellar spectra, spectral classification,
and the HR diagram |
C&O chapter 8 |
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3 |
25 Jan 2024 |
Stellar atmospheres I: the radiation field and its moments; optical depth |
C&O chapter 9, pp 231-244
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4 |
30 Jan 2024 |
Stellar atmospheres II: sources of opacity; the Rosseland mean opacity; the equation of radiative transfer |
C&O chapter 9, pp 244-258
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5 |
1 Feb 2024 |
Stellar atmospheres III: the plane-parallel approximation; gray atmospheres; the Eddington approximation; limb darkening |
C&O chapter 9, pp 258-266
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6 |
6 Feb 2024 |
Stellar atmospheres IV: eclipses and exoplanet transits across limb-darkened stars |
Supplement and
Mandel & Agol 2002
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7 |
8 Feb 2024 |
Stellar atmospheres V: structure of spectral lines; the curve of growth; element abundances; model atmospheres |
C&O chapter 9, pp 267-278
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8 |
13 Feb 2024 |
Stellar interiors I: hydrostatic equilibrium; the pressure equation of state |
C&O chapter 10, pp 284-296
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9 |
15 Feb 2024 |
Stellar interiors II: nuclear energy sources; fusion; the p-p chains. |
C&O chapter 10, pp 296-311
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10 |
20 Feb 2024 |
Stellar interiors III: the CNO cycle; energy transport |
C&O chapter 10, pp 311-317
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11 |
22 Feb 2024 |
Stellar interiors IV: quick thermodynamics; adiabatic processes and polytropes; convection and mixing-length theory |
C&O chapter 10, pp 317-329 |
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12 |
27 Feb 2024 |
Stellar interiors V: model stellar interiors; cheating, more cheating,
and advanced cheating via the stellar structure code MESA |
C&O chapter 10, pp 329-334;
Paxton+2010
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13 |
29 Feb 2024 |
Stellar interiors VI: adiabatic processes, polytropes, the the
Lane-Emden equation and its solution |
C&O chapter 10, pp 334-343
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14 |
5 Mar 2024 |
Stellar interiors VII: polytropes II |
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15 |
7 Mar 2024 |
The Sun, and continuation of polytrope interiors |
C&O chapter 11, pp 349-394 |
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16 |
19 Mar 2024 |
Post-main-sequence stellar evolution I: evolution on the main sequence; onset of degeneracy |
C&O chapter 13, pp 446-457 |
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17 |
21 Mar 2024 |
Post-main-sequence stellar evolution II: full convection, polytropes, and the ascent of the red giant branch;
the asymptotic giant branch; globular clusters
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C&O chapter 13, pp 457-479
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18 |
26 Mar 2024 |
Stellar pulsation I: The instability strip and the e, k and g mechanisms, the one-zone model
for Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars |
C&O chapter 14, pp 483-503
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19 |
28 Mar 2024 |
Stellar pulsation II: Models of non-radial pulsation, p-, f- and g-modes; helio- and asteroseismology |
C&O chapter 14, pp 503-512
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20 |
2 Apr 2024 |
Degenerate stars I: white dwarfs; the equation of state of degenerate gases of fermions is polytropic |
C&O chapter 16, pp 557-572 |
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21 |
4 Apr 2024 |
Degenerate stars II: exact solution for the structure of a white dwarf |
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22 |
9 Apr 2024 |
Degenerate stars III: cooling of white dwarfs and the age of the Universe; neutron stars |
C&O chapter 16, pp 572-586 |
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23 |
11 Apr 2024 |
Post-main-sequence evolution III: the fate of massive stars, black hole and neutron-star production, supernovae; explosive nucleosynthesis; gamma-ray bursts |
C&O chapter 15, pp 518-550
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24 |
16 Apr 2024 |
Degenerate stars IV: pulsars are rotating neutron stars; pulsars and
supernova remnants; pulsar magnetism |
C&O chapter 16, pp 586-603 |
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25 |
18 Apr 2024 |
Close binary systems I: Lagrange points, Roche lobes, and accretion |
C&O chapter 18, pp 653-661, 668-673 |
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26 |
23 Apr 2024 |
Close binary systems II: structure of accretion disks |
C&O chapter 18, pp 661-668 |
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27 |
25 Apr 2024 |
Close binary systems III: cataclysmic variables, (white) dwarf novae and
SNe Ia, neutron stars and black holes in binary systems |
C&O chapter 18, pp 673-705 |
