ASTRO 535 Stellar Evolution/ASTRO 587 Nuclear Astrophysics

ASTRO 535(545) Stellar Evolution/ASTRO 587 Nuclear Astrophysics

Instructors: J. Liebert and D. Arnett

TOPICS in 535(545) STELLAR EVOLUTION (being updated)

TOPICS in 587 NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS (being updated)

Old versions of syllabi

    TOPICS in 587 NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS (partially revised)
  1. Abundances of Nuclei
  2. Summary of Nuclear Systematics
  3. Summary of Thermonuclear Reactions
  4. Summary of Reaction Networks, Equilibria, Burning Stages
  5. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  6. Properties of Stars
  7. New Developments in convection and hydrodynamics
  8. High Energy Density Plasma Experiments
  9. Summary of Opacity and Equations of State
  10. Summary of Spectral Types of Stars
  11. The Main Sequence: hydrogen burning
  12. Solar Neutrinos
  13. Helioseismology
  14. Li Be B Burning
  15. Helium Burning
  16. Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB), shell flashes, s-process
  17. Origin of white dwarfs and planetary nebulae
  18. Explosive Nucleosynthesis
  19. Neutrino cooled stages and nuclear yields
  20. Thermonuclear Explosions, Pair instability SN
  21. Gravitational Collapse, neutrino trapping, the r-process
  22. Origin of neutron stars and black holes
  23. Supernova light curves
  24. Origin of the Elements: a summary of yields

    TOPICS in 535 STELLAR EVOLUTION (very old version being updated)
  1. Review of Stellar Spectral Types and their physics basis. (1-14-02)

  2. Equations of Stellar Structure
  3. Equations of State
  4. Opacities
  5. Nuclear Reactions (just basics)
  6. Computation of Equations, Boundary conditions
  7. Virial Theorem and applications
  8. Polytropes
  9. Homology, Eddington M-L Relations
  10. Methods of Computation
  11. Evolution of low mass stars (1)
  12. Evolution of low mass stars (2)
  13. Evolution of Intermediate mass stars
  14. Post-AGB and white dwarf evolution
  15. Cluster fitting, virtues and vices
  16. Ages and distances of star clusters
  17. Evolution of high mass stars
  18. Evolution of close binary systems
  19. Nucleosynthesis(1)
  20. Nucleosynthesis(2)
  21. Supernovae and neutron stars(1)
  22. Supernovae and neutron stars(2)
  23. Stellar pulsation theory(1)
  24. Stellar pulsation theory(1)
  25. Accretion disk theory
  26. Observational tests of disk systems
  27. Cataclysmic variables and x-ray binaries
  28. Rotating stars
  29. Magnetic fields in stars

E-mail:darnett@as.arizona.edu

Last updated 1-1-08