| Click on the links in the left column for assignments, and the right column for solutions (password protected). |
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| Assignment | Due date | Topic | Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 Jan 2024 | Measurement of stellar mass, radius, and photospheric temperature | 1s |
| 2 | 6 Feb 2024 | Opacity, the Rosseland mean, radiative transfer in plane-parallel geometry, the Eddington approximation | 2s |
| 3 | 17 February 2024 |
Measurement of limb darkening Data: kepler-6_hw3.csv |
3s |
| 4 | 27 February 2024 | Radiative support and energy transport in stars | 4s |
| 5 | 7 March 2024 | Polytropes as stellar interiors I | 5s |
| 6 | 19 March 2024 |
Polytropes as stellar interiors II MESA solar interior model, for comparison to your polytrope models |
6s |
| 7 | 30 March 2024 | Standard solar models, analytically and with MESA: content description for MESA's profile output is here, and here is the detached eclipsing binary data, to plot with the models. | 7s |
| 8 | 9 April 2024 | Stellar pulsation | 8s |
| 9 | 16 April 2024 |
The Chandra white-dwarf solution Selected white-dwarf data, to plot with your solution. See also the solution to problem T.5, which figures in Problem Sets 8 and 9, but which I forgot to assign. |
9s |
| 10 | 29 April 2024 | Accretion disk structure | 10s |
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