Astro Raven

University of Washington
 Astronomy Department

Astronomy 421 Stellar Observation and Theory
WINTER 2009

Instructor: Dr. Ana M. Larson
Office: C335, Physics Astronomy Building; Office hours: T 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Questions? E-Mail: larson -at- astro.washington.edu
Class meets TTh 1:30 - 2:50 pm, Rm. PAA A210 (and B356)

Final Exam Winter 2009

CollectIt drop box

Syllabus

Calendar

Lectures

Grade Book
Assignments
Winter 2009 [optional] IDL Programming Basics 1 || IDL Assignment 1
Winter 2009 - [optional] IDL Programming Basics 2 || IDL Assignment 2
[optional] C and O Problem 3.9 IDL program || Physical Constants
A great, simple IDL tutorial
Modeling Continuous Opacities in a Solar-Type Atmosphere
Instructions
temp_pelog.dat input values of temperature and log10(pressure)
Table of Continuous Opacities (kappa per gram) to check your results
Reading in and writing out data
Procedure for making pretty plot
legend.pro

Drop Box for all Documents pertaining to opacity project.
Interior Code BZAMS
BZAMS Instructions
Graphs from BZAMS3, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0, 10.0, and 20.0 Msun
Pulsation Project from Carroll & Ostlie, Problem 14.13
Discussion Forum for Definitions
Thursday, February 5, assignmenton Radiation Transfer and Line Formation
Reference Material

Bohm-Vitense, Erica, Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, Vols. 2 & 3 (required texts)
Carroll & Ostlie, An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (reference)
Hansen, Kawaler, Trimble: Stellar Interiors Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution, 2nd ed., 2004
The Fundamentals of Stellar Astrophysics: An on-line, graduate-level text on astrophysics.
Annual Review Article on Absolute Magnitude Calibrations of Population I and II Cepheids and other Pulsating Variables in the Instabiity Strip of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
First Fruits of the Spitzer Space Telescope: Galactic and Solar System Studies

Helpful and/or relevant and/or interesting links:

Programming, Plotting: Star Clusters

Globular Cluster Database
Galactic Open Clusters

Star Formation
Other Cool Web Sites