ASTROPHYSICS 514
Spring 2023
CLASS SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
Lecture Notes:
Supplementary Notes:
- Stellar timescales,
- Equations of Stellar Structure,
- Simple Scaling Relations,
- Basic Energetics,
- Polytropes,
- Radiative Transfer,
- Thermodynamics,
- Equations of State,
- Saha Equation,
- Convection,
- Opacity,
- Eddington Model,
- Simple Mass-Luminosity Relation,
- Hayashi Track,
- Ignition Mass,
- Thermal Stability of the Eddington Model,
- Nuclear Masses,
- Nuclear Reaction Rates and Burning,
- PP, CNO, and He Burning Rates,
- Shell Burning,
- Schonberg-Chandrasekhar Limit,
- Meridional Circulation,
- White Dwarfs,
- Stellar Endpoints: WDs, NSs, and BHs
- Neutron Stars
- Stellar Pulsation, Helioseismology, and White Dwarf Cooling
- Brown Dwarfs
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