AST 403 Course Notes

 
  This page gives you access to course notes. These will be supplemental to the lectures - there won't be complete notes to each lecture. Accordingly, the notes are listed by topic. Many of the stellar course notes are provided by Jeremy Goodman and Bohdan Paczynski.
 
 
 
 


 Astronomical terms and constants
 

 General Thermodynamic Considerations
 

 Ionization and the Saha Equation
 

 Equations of Stellar Structure
 

 Stars in Hydrostatic Equilbrium
 

 Stellar Timescales
 

 Dynamical Stability of Spherical Stars
 

 Polytropes
 

 Thermal Stability of Low Mass Stars
 

 Fully Convective Stars: The Hayashi Limit
 

 Equation of State
 

 The physics of fusion in stars
 

 Stellar Nucleosynthesis
 

 Nuclear Reaction Rates
 

 Solar Neutrinos
 

 Helioseismology I: The wave mechanics of solar sound
 

 Helioseismology II: Probing the Solar Interior
 

 Opacities
 

 Numerical Integration
 

 Eddington model for High Mass Stars
 

 Mass-Luminosity Relationship for Massive Stars
 

 Radiative Transfer
 

 Red Giants
 

 Stellar Magnetohydrodynamics
 

 Radial Stellar Pulsations
 

 One-Zone Model for Shell Flashes
 

 Radiative and Convective Envelopes
 

 Spherical Winds, Spherical Accretion
 

 Accretion Disks
 

 White Dwarfs
 

 Neutron Stars and Black Holes
 

 Gamma Ray Bursts
 

 Protostars and Planets