The course is split into two sections: Stellar Atmospheres and
Stellar Structure & Interiors.
The atmospheres part will focus mostly on radiation transfer techniques: basic definitions, equation of radiation transfer, moment equations, analytic approximations at small and large optical depth, the gray atmosphere, spectral line broadening, curve of growth. At the end of the atmospheres section I'll be presenting a few lectures on Monte Carlo radiation transfer techniques that I use extensively in my own research on circumstellar disks and the interstellar medium.
``Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres'' by Rob Rutten
This is the text that I'm using for definitions, equations, etc in the
Stellar Atmospheres part of the course. The text is not published, but
the latest version is available from Rob Rutten's webpage:
Latest version.
The version I used to prepare the lecture notes below is from
December 1 2000. There are two copies of this
in the Physics & Astronomy Library.
``Introduction to Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer''
by Wood, Bjorkman, Whitney & Wolff
POSTSCRIPT
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This is a short booklet that we prepaperd on basic Monte Carlo radiation
transfer techniques. It covers everything I'll present in the Monte Carlo
lectures at the end of the Stellar Atmospheres part of the course. A plane
parallel isotropic scattering code and some three dimensional scattering
codes are available
here.
Other stellar atmospheres books that I'll refer to are:
``Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres'' by David Gray
``Stellar Atmospheres'' by Dimitri Mihalas
This book is out of print,
but is in the Physics & Astronomy Library.
It is generally beyond the scope of this short
course, but is the authoratative textbook on the subject.
``Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution''
by Dina Prialnick
This is the text for the stellar structure part of the course.
Lecture 2: Radiation Field Basics I Postscript PDF
Lecture 2a: Radiation Field Basics II Postscript PDF
Lecture 3: Line Transitions & Opacity Postscript PDF
Lecture 4: Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium Postscript PDF
Lecture 5: Formal Solution of Equation of Radiation Transfer Postscript PDF
Lecture 6: Analytic Solutions I Postscript PDF
Lecture 7: Analytic Solutions II Postscript PDF
Lecture 8: Analytic Solutions III Postscript PDF
Lecture 9: Model Atmospheres Postscript PDF
Lecture 10: Spectral Lines I Postscript PDF
Lecture 11: Spectral Lines II Postscript PDF
Lecture 12: Monte Carlo I Postscript PDF
Lecture 13: Monte Carlo II Postscript PDF
Lecture 15: Equations of stellar structure Postscript PDF
Lecture 16: Solving the stellar structure equations Postscript PDF
Lecture 17: Virial theorem Postscript PDF
Lecture 18: Star formation Postscript PDF
Lecture 19: Deriving the equation of state Postscript PDF
Lecture 20: Opacity Postscript PDF
Lecture 21: Thermonuclear reactions Postscript PDF
Lecture 22: Approximate structure models Postscript PDF
Lecture 23: Understanding the main sequence Postscript PDF
Lecture 24: Post-main-sequence evolution Postscript PDF
Tutorial 2 PDF