Syllabus+(Spring),+Stellar+Astronomy

 l Observables: CM diagram, luminosity-mass reln, stellar sizes & temperatures  l Equations of Stellar Structure  o Timescales: KH, free-fall, nuclear  o Equations of state  o Radiative transfer, opacities  o Convection  o Degenerate matter and conduction  l Nuclear energy sources, nucleosynthesis  o H burning: p-p, CNO processes  o Triple-alpha  o s & r processes  o Later burning stages in massive stars  l Construction of stellar models: Polytropes, numerical methods, connection to observables  l Star formation, protostars & pre-main sequence stars  l Binary stars, star clusters, associations, moving groups  l Low-mass main sequence stars; the Sun as archetype <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Giant branch, Helium flash, horizontal branch, SC limit <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o AGB stars, helium shell flashes, thermal pulses, dredge-up events <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Winds and mass loss, superwinds <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Planetary and preplanetary nebulae <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Chandrasekhar limit <span style="margin-top: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> l Massive star evolution <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Radiation pressure, stability and the stellar mass limit <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Winds, emission-line stars, P Cygni profiles, X-rays, LBVs, WR stars <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Photodestruction, pair production <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Core-collapse supernovae: role of neutrinos, formation of compact objects <span style="margin-top: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> l Compact objects: white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes <span style="margin-top: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> l Brown dwarfs and their evolution – L, T, & Y types, spectroscopic characteristics <span style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> l Other topics selectable by the instructor as time permits <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Solar neutrinos <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Stellar multiplicity <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Binary evolution, tidal interactions, accretion disks, binary classes <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Variable stars & their physics: Cepheids, RR Lyrae, LPVs, etc. <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Type Ia supernovae <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Stellar rotation <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Magnetic fields in stars and stellar remnants; magnetic braking, coronae <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Abundance determinations <span style="margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> o Asteroseismology
 * Stellar Astronomy **