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SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introduction
2Kepler Problem

Binaries
3Stellar Distances

Coordinates

Magnitudes
4Color-color Diagrams

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

Opacity

Radiative Diffusion
7Equations of Stellar Structure

Convection
Problem set 2 due
8Convection (cont.)

Modeling

Polytropes

Energy Sources
9Nuclear Reaction Rates

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

Nucleosynthesis

Low-M Stars
11Stellar Evolution: Lower Main Sequence

Cluster H-R
12S-C Limit

Solar Neutrinos

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

Chandra Mass

White Dwarfs
15White Dwarf Cooling

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

Collapsars

GRBs
Problem set 6 due
18Neutron Stars

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

Accretion Disks
22Cepheid Variables

X-ray Binaries
Problem set 9 due
23Black Holes

Interstellar Medium

Dust Extinction
24Star Formation

Jeans Criterion

IMF

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

Heating and Cooling

21 cm and CO
26Shocks

Supernova Remnants

 








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