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Stellar Astrophysics (MVAstro2, MVSpec)

summer term 2024
Lecturer: Ralf Klessen, Stefan Jordan
34 participants

Lecture: Thursdays, 14:15-15:45

Tutorial Group 1: Thursday, 15:45-17:15

Tutorial Group 2: Thursday, 17:15-18:45 (possible second group)

 

To excel in the module MVAstro2 "Stellar Astrophysics," it is essential to complete an adequate number of exercises and attend the tutorials. Merely submitting exercises through the Übungsgruppensystem is insufficient; you must also be prepared to present your solutions during the tutorial sessions. 
 
Credit points cannot be awarded solely based on participation in the written exam; attendance at the tutorials is also required to receive credit.
 

 

Preliminary Schedule:

18.4.24: Introduction (Stefan Jordan)

25.4.24: Stellar structure 1 (Ralf Klessen)

02.5.24: Stellar structure 2 (Ralf Klessen)

09.5.24: Himmelfahrt

16.5.24: Stellar structure 3 (Ralf Klessen)

23.5.24: Energy transport (Stefan Jordan)

30.5.24: Fronleichnam

06.6.24: Energy production (Stefan Jordan)

13.6.24: Main sequence (Stefan Jordan)

20.6.24: Stellar evolution to the AGB (Stefan Jordan)

27.6.24: Late stages of stellar evolution (Stefan Jordan)

04.7.24: Stellar atmospheres, stellar spectra (Stefan Jordan)

11.7.24: Stellar pulsations, rotation, magnetic fields (Ralf Klessen)

18.7.23: Stellar spectra (Stefan Jordan)

25.7.23: Written exam (Ralf Klessen, Stefan Jordan)

 

Seminar:

 3 full days between July 29 and  Jul 31, 2024

 

 
This is the list of potential papers for the seminar:
 
To submit your top three preferences, please send an email to jordan@ari.uni-heidelberg.de with the subject "Stellar Astrophysics Seminar 2024". Please be aware that only students who have met the module requirements are eligible to participate. However, there is an exception for PhD students who are not required to attend the tutorials but may voluntarily present a seminar talk without receiving credit points.
 
Please be aware that there are some  papers that address the same topic. If you select one of these papers, you will be asked to consider the related paper as well.
 
If you choose a review paper, you are not required to cover all the different aspects discussed in the paper during your seminar talk. Instead, choose a few aspects that you can focus on.
 
The length of your talk will be  35 minutes. Following your talk, there will be an opportunity for questions and feedback.
 
You have to be present on all three days of the seminar!
 
Deardline for your selection of seminar topics:
July 3, 2024
 
List of seminar talk:
Yared Reinarz Cabrera: The birth environment of the solar system
Utkarsh Basu: Solar Dynamo
Evgenii Govorov: Carrington Events
Elisa Haas: The Properties of the Solar Corona and its Connection to the Solar Wind
Niclas Riffert: Solar Neutrinos: Status and Prospects
Surabhi Badrinath: The Fifth Catalogue of Nearby Stars (CNS5)
Arkaprabha Roy: A closer look at the transition between fully convective and partly radiative low-mass star
Moritz Strauß: On the cool side: modeling the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and giant planets
Adamo Sabbadin: New Insights into Classical Nova
Jakob Möhrle: What are the spectroscopic binaries with high-mass functions near the Gaia DR3 main sequence?
Jan-Erik Schneider: High-Mass Star and Massive Cluster Formation in the Milky Way
Max Utermöhlen: Mass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars
Pranavandhan Upendranath: New Insights into the Evolution of Massive Stars and Their Effects on Our Understanding of Early Galaxies
Cristina Viviente Orea: Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Cluster
Tobias van Lier: Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars
Maximilian Gabriel Klein: Betelgeuse: a review
Lasse Seyberlich: The evolutionary stage of Betelgeuse inferred from its pulsation periods
Vincent Benz: Origin of Pulsar Radio Emission
Gregory Jung: Core cristallisation and pile-up in the cooling sequence of evolving white dwarfs
Saitej Amonkar: The Most Luminous Supernovae
Jonathan Paulsen.: The s process: Nuclear physics, stellar models, and observations
Jhananii Yuvaraj: Magnetars
Yu-Ruei Wang: Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry
Tim Ebbinghaus: Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics beyond ΛCDM
 
 
Please check whether one of your priorities is listed. The sequence has not yet been decided.
 
To obtain the credit points for this module you have to attend regularly and succesfully in the tutorial, the written exam and the seminar. 
 

Practice groups

  • Group 1 (Stefan Jordan/Ralf Klessen)
    16 participants
    Phil 12 kHS, Thu 15:45 - 17:15
  • Group 2 (Tadafumi Masuno)
    18 participants
    Phil 12 R105, Thu 15:45 - 17:15
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Stellar Astrophysics (MVAstro2, MVSpec)
summer term 2024
Jordan S, Klessen R
34 participants
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