Stellar Astrophysics

Lecturers:

Ralf Klessen

ZAH/ITA, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 2, 69120 Heidelberg

Stefan Jordan

ZAH/ARI, Mönchhofstr. 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg

Time and Location:

Thursday, 14:15 - 16:00 hours, Philosophenweg 12 -- Small Lecture Hall

Topics:

Stellar structure and evolution / stellar atmospheres / Sun

Tutorial:

The tutorials are held on Thursday from 16:00 to 17:00 directly after the lecture in the Small Lecture Hall at Philosophenweg 12. 

 

There is no final schedule for the lecture yet.

Here is the preliminary schedule:

20.4.17: Introduction (Ralf Klessen)

27.4.17: Stellar structure 1 (Ralf Klessen)

04.5.17: Stellar structure 2 (Ralf Klessen)

11.5.17: Stellar structure 3 (Ralf Klessen)

18.5.17: Energy transport (Ralf Klessen)

25.5.17: Himmelfahrt

01.6.17: Energy production (Ralf Klessen)

08.6.17: Main sequence (Stefan Jordan)

15.6.17: Fronleichnam 

22.6.17: Stellar evolution to the AGB (Stefan Jordan)

29.6.17: Late stages of stellar evolution  (Stefan Jordan)

06.7.17: Stellar pulsations, rotation, magnetic fields  (Stefan Jordan)

13.7.17: Stellar atmospheres stellar spectra  (Stefan Jordan)

20.7.17: Stellar spectra  (Stefan Jordan)

27.7.17: WRITTEN EXAM

 

The SEMINAR will take place in a block on Monday 31.7.17 in the seminar room 216 in the 3rd floor of Philosophenweg 12. The link to literature on possible seminar topics is provided HERE.

 

Participants and seminar topics:

9:00 -  9:45 Víctor Boscá Navarro: Formation of the first stars (Bromm 2013)

9:45 - 10:30 Fabian Scheuermann: The Birth Environment of the Solar System (Adams 2010)

10:30 - 10:45 SHORT BREAK

10:45 - 11:30 Nicolas Hernandez: Accretion onto Pre-Main-Sequence Stars (Hartmann et al. 2016)

11:30 - 12:15 Esther Euteneuer: On the Cool Side: Modeling the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets (Marley & Robinson 2015)

12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 14:45 Manuel Kramer: Red clump stars (Girardi 2016)

14:45 - 15:30 David Bubeck: The Ages of Stars (Soderblom 2010)

15:30 - 16:15 Muzammil Mushtaq: Multiple populations in globular clusters Lessons learned from the Milky Way globular clusters (Gratton 2012 )