1. | Introduction: Some numbers and estmations |
2. | The Virial theorem and time scales |
3. | 1D, Time-Independent Equations of structure |
4. | Equations of state |
4a. Blackbody radiation | |
4b. Monatomic gas | |
4c. Saha equation | |
4d. Fermi-Dirac degeneracy | |
4e. Adiabatic exponents | |
5. | Radiative transfer and opacities |
6. | Convection |
6a. Boundary conditions | |
7. | Energy generation: gravity and nuclear reactions |
7a. The proton-proton chain and deuterium burning | |
7b. The CNO cycles | |
7c. Helium burning | |
7d. C, O, Ne, Si burning and photo-disintegration processes | |
7e. Nuclear statistical equilibrium among the iron group | |
8. | Numerical Solutions and Polytropes |
9. | Star Formation |
10. | Stellar Aging |
11. | Stellar Death |
12. | Nucleosynthesis |
13. | Binary Stars |
14. | Stellar Oscillations |
14a. The linear adiabatic wave equation |
Talks
Brown Dwarfs Dan Kittell ppt file.
Fortran codes
H+He Saha fractions