2002 COURSE OUTLINE by Date, with Links
and Notes
Nov. 5: Stellar Models: Structure and Evolution of Lower
Mass Stars
From the ZAMS to the Present - The Standard Solar Model
TUESDAY Journal Club: "Solar Models: A Historical Overview" by J. Bahcall
(astro-ph/0209080);
see also "Direct Measurement of the Sun's Total Neutrino..." in
Physics Today, July 2002, p.13; as well as the info on Neutrino Astrophysics
for Nobels in
Physics 2002
, reviewed by Matt Stanley & Vit Hradecky.
Nov. 7: Helium Burning, AGB Evolution & Nucleosynthesis
PROBLEM Set 4: due Dec 3.
Nov. 12: Evolution with Rotation & Mass Loss
TUESDAY Journal Club: "Exploring Brown Dwarf Disks" by Natta & Testi
(
A&A, 376, L22, 2001),
reviewed by Julie Nantais & Yuan Chen.
Nov. 14: Stellar Models: Structure and Evolution of Massive Stars
Hydrogen & Helium Burning of Massive Stars
Advanced Burning Stages
Recent paper, with figures shown in class, by
Heger et al. 2002,
astro-ph/0211062.
Nov. 19: Supernovae & GRBs (Guest Lecture)
Computer Simulations by Burrows et al. and Arnett et al.(1995).
TUESDAY Journal Club: "Type Ia Supernovae and their Implications for Cosmology"
by M. Livio (in "Cosmic Evolution", eds. Vangioni-Flam, Ferlet, & Lemoine, World
Sceintific, 2001, p.299), reviewed by Andy Friedman & Xavier Koenig.
Nov. 21: Stellar Stability & Acoustics (4)
Radial and Nonradial Pulsations (I)
J. Christensen-Dalsgaard lecture
notes (1998).
Nov. 26: Stellar Stability & Acoustics
Radial and Nonradial Pulsations (II)
TUESDAY Journal Club: "LMC Bump Cepheids: Probing the Stellar M-L Relation"
by Keller & Wood
(
ApJ, 578, 144, 2002); and "Long-Baseline Interferometric Observations of
Cepheids" by Lane et al.
(
ApJ, 573, 330, 2002),
reviewed by Shinae Park, Kamson Lai, & Slavko Bogdanov.