ASTROPHYSICS 403
Spring 2017
Helpful Extra Reading by Subject:
- Stellar Timescales,
- Equations of Stellar Structure and the Virial Theorem,
- Microphysics: Equation of State and Opacities,
- Radiative Transfer,
- Convection,
- Scaling Relations and Polytropes,
- The Eddington Model for Stars (extra),
- Nuclear Masses and Fusion Reactions,
- Hayashi Track, Ignition Masses, and the Schonberg-Chandrasekhar Limit,
- Shell Burning (Giants),
- Stages of Stellar Evolution,
- Nucleosynthesis,
- Stellar Endpoints: White Dwarfs
- Stellar Endpoints: Neutron Stars (and Black Holes)
- Supernovae
Last modified: February 6, 2017