Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
2 Kepler Problem

Binaries
3 Stellar Distances

Coordinates

Magnitudes
4 Color-color Diagrams

Spectral/Luminosity Classes
Problem set 1 due
5 Saha Equation
6 Radiation

Opacity

Radiative Diffusion
7 Equations of Stellar Structure

Convection
Problem set 2 due
8 Convection (cont.)

Modeling

Polytropes

Energy Sources
9 Nuclear Reaction Rates

Hydrogen Burning: pp, CNO
Problem set 3 due
10 H/He Burning

Nucleosynthesis

Low-M Stars
11 Stellar Evolution: Lower Main Sequence

Cluster H-R
12 S-C Limit

Solar Neutrinos

Degenerate Matter
Problem set 4 due
13 Midterm Exam
14 Degenerate Matter

Chandra Mass

White Dwarfs
15 White Dwarf Cooling

Intrinsically Variable Stars
Problem set 5 due
16 Upper Main Sequence: Evolution of Massive Stars
17 Supernovae

Collapsars

GRBs
Problem set 6 due
18 Neutron Stars

Pulsars (Guest Lecturer: David Kaplan)
Problem set 7 due
19 Sun as a Star (Guest Lecturer: Justin Kasper)
20 Gravitational Radiation (Guest Lecturer: Ryan Lang) Problem set 8 due
21 Close Binaries

Accretion Disks
22 Cepheid Variables

X-ray Binaries
Problem set 9 due
23 Black Holes

Interstellar Medium

Dust Extinction
24 Star Formation

Jeans Criterion

IMF

Brown Dwarfs
Problem set 10 due
25 Gas in the Interstellar Medium

Heating and Cooling

21 cm and CO
26 Shocks

Supernova Remnants