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Weekly Topic Overview |
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Friday |
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Week 1 Background: Chapter 8 (4 ÒslidesÓper
page in pdf format: UL, UR, LL, LR) |
1/26 Overview OBAFGKM The H-R diagram Chapter 8, p 202 – 230 |
1/28 MB Distribution Handout in class: spectrograms,
partition functions from D. Gray |
1/30 TH 123: Computer Lab IDL scripts: Introduction Lab hmwk 1 due 2/6 |
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Week 2 Stellar
atmospheres:
Chapter 8 |
2/2 Spectral line formation and the Boltzmann
eqn |
2/4 Saha Eqn, Hydrogen Balmer
line formation |
2/6 TH123: Computer Lab Plotting the H-R Diagram, from the Hipparcos
catalog, writing an interpolation algorithm |
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Week 3 Stellar
atmospheres:
Chapter 9 |
2/9 , 4 Radiation defnÕs:
specific intensity, black body radiation, radiative
flux Chapter 9, p 231 – 255 |
2/11 Stellar radii, Stefan-Boltzmann eqn, Planck function, stellar temperatures Ch 9, p 255-279 |
2/13 TH123: Computer Lab Opacity in stellar atmospheres Lab hmwk 2 due 2/20 |
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Week 4 Stellar atmospheres: Chapter 9 |
2/16 Optical depth, line and continuum opacity
sources |
2/18 Opacity: bb, bf, ff, es,
H- , the Balmer jump, Rosseland mean opacity, emission and absorption
coefficients |
2/20 TH123:
Computer Lab Compute Stellar Line
profiles (IDL functions:
Voigt, Planck) Last
day to drop a class |
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Week 5 Stellar atmospheres: Chapter 9 |
2/23 Limb darkening, Eddington Approximation |
2/25 Spectral lines, Broadening mechanisms |
2/27 TH123:
Computer Lab SME: Building synthetic spectral models Lab hmwk 3 due 3/6 |
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Week 6 Interiors of
Stars:
Chapter 10 |
3/2 Radiative transfer Equation, Source functions Ch 10, p 284 – 315 |
3/4 Hydrostatic equilibruium |
3/6 TH123 Computer
Lab SME: Fitting observational data |
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Week 7 Interiors of
Stars:
Chapter 10 |
3/9 Curve of Growth Stellar atmosphere models Ch 10, p 315 – 344 |
3/11 Stellar Energy sources Quantum Mechanical Tunneling |
3/13 TH123 Computer
Lab Stellar atmosphere models |
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Week 8 Stellar
Interiors:
Chapter 10 |
3/16 Nucleosynthesis |
3/18 Energy
Transport and Thermodynamics |
3/20 TH325 MIDTERM 1 (in class) |
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3/23 Spring Break |
3/25 Spring Break |
3/27 Spring Break |
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Week 9 The Sun: Chapter 11 |
3/30 Solar interior Bahcall, Pinsonneault, Basu
2001 Ch 11, p 349 – 394 |
4/1 Neutrino problem Solar cycle |
4/3 TH325
Student presentations (Solar interior) |
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Week 10 Field trip
to Lick Observatory Computational
Work |
4/6 NO CLASS:
Field trip to Lick Observatory (exact date TBD) |
4/8 TH123 Computer Lab T.B.D. |
4/10 TH123 Computer Lab T.B.D. Lab hmwk due 4/17 |
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Week 11 Interstellar
Medium: Chapter
12 |
4/13 Interstellar
medium Ch 12, p 398 – 440 |
4/15 Formation of Protostars Pre-MS evolution |
4/17 TH325
Student presentations (Interstellar medium or star formation) |
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Week 12 Star
Formation: Chapter
12 |
4/20 Low-mass star
formation |
4/22 High Mass star
formation |
4/24 TH325
Student presentations (Star formation, stellar
evolution, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes) |
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Week 13 MS Evolution: Chapter 13 |
4/27 Late Stages of
Stellar Evolution Ch 13, p 446 – 480 |
4/29 Evolution on
the MS |
5/1 TH325
Student presentations (Star formation, stellar
evolution, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes) |
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Week 14 The Fate of Massive
Stars: Ch
15 |
5/4 Post-MS
evolution of Massive Stars Ch 15, p518 – 553 |
5/6 Supernovae: classification and core-collapse |
5/8 TH325
Student presentations (Star formation, stellar
evolution, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes) |
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Week 15 The Fate of Massive Stars:
Ch 15 |
5/11 White Dwarfs |
5/13 Neutron
stars |
5/15 Black holes Last Day of Class |