Astronomy 8100 (Instructor: Dr. Russel White)

MW 10:00 am until noon, Syllabus
Presentation Topics & Schedule

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Lecture 1 (1/9/2012), supplementary material:
Solar System Abundances and Condensation Temperatures of the Elements (Lodders 2003)

Lecture 2 (1/11/2012), supplementary material:
Homework #1 (due 1/18/2012)

Lecture 3 (1/25/2012), supplementary material:
None

Lecture 4 (1/30/2012), supplementary material:
On the Photon Diffusion Timescale for the Sun (Mitalas & Sills, 1992, ApJ)
The 8-minute travel time to Earth by sunlight hides a thousand-year journey that actually began in the core (NASA article)

Lecture 5 (2/1/2012), supplementary material:
Accurate masses and radii of normal stars: modern results and applications (Torres et al. 2010)

Lecture 6 (2/6/2012), supplementary material:
Homework #2 (due 2/8/2012)

Lecture 7 (2/8/2012), supplementary material:
Solutions to the Equations of Stellar Structure (pdf)

Lecture 8 (2/13/2012), supplementary material:
None

Lecture 9 (2/15/2012), supplementary material:
Homework #3 (due 2/24/2012 ... but extended to 2/26)

Lecture 10 (2/20/2012), supplementary material:
Testing the Doubly Magic Character of Tin-132 (B. Schwarzschild; Physics Today, Aug 2010; pdf)

Lecture 11 (2/22/2012), supplementary material:
A Long-Lived Accretion Disk Around a Lithium-Depleted Binary T Tauri Star (White & Hillenbrand 2005)
The Lithium Depletion Boundary in NGC 2547 as a Test of Pre-Main Sequence Evolutionary Models (Jeffries & Oliveira 2005)
16.3.2 Lithium Burning (from "The Formation of Stars" by Stahler & Palla)

Lecture 12 (3/07/2012), supplementary material:
Class Presentation Information
R-Process Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae (Cowan & Thielemann; Physics Today, Oct 2004; pdf)
Example S-Process (*.svg file)

Lecture 13 (3/12/2012), supplementary material:
None

Lecture 14 (3/14/2012), supplementary material:
Solutions to the Lame-Emden equation

Lecture 15 (3/19/2012), supplementary material:
Homework #4 (due 3/26/2012 ... but extended to 3/28)

Lecture 16 (3/21/2012), supplementary material:
None

Lecture 17 (3/26/2012), supplementary material:
None

Lecture 18 (3/28/2012), supplementary material:
The Mass Function of Dense Molecular Cores and the Origin of the IMF (Alves et al. 2007; pdf)
Internal Structure of a Cold Dark Molecular Cloud Inferred from the Extinction of Background Starlight (Alves et al. 2001; pdf)
see Chapter 3 from Padmanabhan

NOTE: NO CLASS ON APR 2

Lecture 19 (4/4/2012), supplementary material:
TBD

Lecture 20 (4/9/2012), supplementary material:
TBD

Lecture 21 (4/11/2012), supplementary material:
TBD

Lecture 22 (4/16/2012), supplementary material:
TBD

Lecture 23 (4/18/2012), supplementary material:
TBD

Lecture 24 (4/23/2012), supplementary material:
TBD

Last updated, 3/23/2012