You may find chapter 12 of Carroll and Ostlie (Introduction to Modern Astrophysics) helpful for background reading on star formation. 23: Black Holes Interstellar Medium Dust Extinction: Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 12. 24: Star Formation Jeans Criterion IMF Brown Dwarfs: Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 12. Accurip torrent mac. 25: Gas in the Interstellar Medium Heating. Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42216-1 — An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics Bradley W. Carroll, Dale A. Ostlie Frontmatter More Information. Instructor's Solution Manual for An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (274 pp) - B. Carroll and D. Ostlie, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997. 'A Survey of the Introductory Physics Course' - B. Carroll, Conference on the Introductory Physics Course, J. Wilson (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1997. Similarly, the solar wind value M,W = 2.5 × 10 −14 M yr −1 (Carroll & Ostlie 2006), and Ω ≈ 3 × 10 −6 s −1 is the angular frequency of the Sun using an orbital period of 24 days. The textbook is An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition, by Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie (Addison-Wesley, 2007, ISBN 0-8053-0402-9). Evaluation: Homework 40%. Final exam (one-half on last part of course, one-half comprehensive) 20% Homework is due at the beginning of class each Wednesday.
Textbooks
Hansen, Carl J., Steven D. Kawaler, and Virginia Trimble. Drivergenius professional edition. Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure and Evolution. New York, NY: Springer, 2004. ISBN: 9780387200897.
Carroll, Bradley W., and Dale A. Ostlie. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub., 1995. ISBN: 9780201547306.
Kippenhahn, Rudolf, and Alfred Weigert. Stellar Structure and Evolution. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1990. ISBN: 9780387502113.
Shapiro, Stuart L., and Saul A. Teukolsky. Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars. New York, NY: Wiley, 1983. ISBN: 9780471873167.
Readings by Session
SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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1 | Introduction | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 1. You may also find Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 7 useful for background on stellar binaries. |
2 | Kepler Problem Binaries | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 1. Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 7. |
3 | Stellar Distances Coordinates Magnitudes | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 1. Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 7. |
4 | Color-color Diagrams Spectral/Luminosity Classes | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 3, especially section 3.4. You may also find it useful to read chapter 8 in Carroll and Ostlie. Introduction to Modern Astrophysics. If you are interested in additional reading about the Saha Equation, you may also consult chapter 14 of Stellar Structure and Evolution by R. Kippenhahn and A. Weigert (1990, Springer). |
5 | Saha Equation | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 3. Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 8. Kippenhahn and Weigert, chapter 14. |
6 | Radiation Opacity Radiative Diffusion | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 3. Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 8. Kippenhahn and Weigert, chapter 14. |
7 | Equations of Stellar Structure Convection | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 4 (including section 4.8). You should also at least look through chapter 5 on Convection. |
8 | Convection (cont.) Modeling Polytropes Energy Sources | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapters 4 and 5. |
9 | Nuclear Reaction Rates Hydrogen Burning: pp, CNO | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 6, chapter 7 (sections 7.1-7.2). (I encourage you to at least skim through the rest of chapter 7 as well.) We will also start covering the material in chapter 2 (sections 2.1-2.5), although homework problems on this material will be on Problem Set 5. (You should still do this reading prior to the midterm exam, however.) |
10 | H/He Burning Nucleosynthesis Low-M Stars | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapters 2, 6, and 7. |
11 | Stellar Evolution: Lower Main Sequence Cluster H-R | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapters 2, 6, and 7. |
12 | S-C Limit Solar Neutrinos Degenerate Matter | Finish reading the first part of chapter 2 (sections 2.1-2.6) on Stellar Evolution in Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, and also read section 9.3 on the Solar Neutrino Problem. You may also find it useful to review sections 3.5-3.6 on Degenerate Equations of State. For a deeper discussion, you can consult chapters 2-3 of Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars by Shapiro and Teukolsky. |
13 | Midterm exam | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 2, sections 3.5-3.6, and section 9.3. Shapiro and Teukolsky, chapters 2 and 3. |
14 | Degenerate Matter Chandra Mass White Dwarfs | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, chapter 2, sections 3.5-3.6 and 9.3. Shapiro and Teukolsky, chapters 2 and 3. |
15 | White Dwarf Cooling Intrinsically Variable Stars | Finish reading the rest of chapter 2 (sections 2.7-2.15) on Stellar Evolution in Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble. You can also read more about White Dwarf Properties, Cooling, and Crystallization Physics in chapter 10 of Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, as well as in chapters 3-4 of Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars by Shapiro and Teukolsky. |
16 | Upper Main Sequence: Evolution of Massive Stars | Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, sections 2.7-2.15 and chapter 10. Shapiro and Teukolsky, chapters 3 and 4. |
17 | Supernovae Collapsars GRBs | Read Heger, et al. 'How Massive Stars End Their Life.' Astrophys J 591, no. 288 (2003). You will also find it useful to read Sections 2.6-2.8 and 2.11.2 in Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, as well as chapters 5, 12, and 18 in Shapiro and Teukolsky. |
18 | Neutron Stars Pulsars (Guest Lecturer: David Kaplan) | Shapiro and Teukolsky, chapters 9 and 10. |
19 | Sun as a Star (Guest Lecturer: Justin Kasper) | Shapiro and Teukolsky, chapters 9 and 10. |
20 | Gravitational Radiation (Guest Lecturer: Ryan Lang) | Read chapter 13 on Compact X-ray Sources in Shapiro and Teukolsky. (Note that the observational details are very dated, but the theoretical description is good.) You may also find it instructive to skim through chapters 14 (Accretion onto Black Holes), 15 (Accretion onto Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs), and 16 (Gravitational Radiation). |
21 | Close Binaries Accretion Disks | Chapter 13 on Compact X-ray Sources in Shapiro and Teukolsky, and skim through chapters 14 (Accretion onto Black Holes), 15 (Accretion onto Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs), and 16 (Gravitational Radiation). |
22 | Cepheid Variables X-ray Binaries | You may find chapter 12 of Carroll and Ostlie (Introduction to Modern Astrophysics) helpful for background reading on star formation. |
23 | Black Holes Interstellar Medium Dust Extinction | Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 12. |
24 | Star Formation Jeans Criterion IMF Brown Dwarfs | Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 12. |
25 | Gas in the Interstellar Medium Heating and Cooling 21 cm and CO | Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 12. |
26 | Shocks Supernova Remnants | Carroll and Ostlie, chapter 12. |
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