Astronomy 123: Stellar Astrophysics

Spring 2019
Prof. David Cohen

Science Center 149 - Math Seminar Room
Fridays 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

 

 

Orion belt HR diagram solar spectrum eta Car: HST

 

 

 

Announcements

We will have our final seminar meeting of the semester this Friday at 2:00 pm on Friday in the math seminar room, during which we'll finish up our discussion of stellar winds. I will be bringing the snack again this week.

Office hours this week are: Monday 1 to 3:30, Tuesday and Wednesday 3:00 to 5:30 pm, both days, and let me know if you'd like to meet on Thursday, but for now, no official office hours are scheduled.


Archive of old announcements.


Assignments

Read the fourteenth assignment [pdf] and think about the material, go over last week's problems and solutions, and prepare to discuss the first four-plus-one pages of Owocki's Radiation Driven Stellar Winds from Hot Stars [pdf].


Archive of old assignments.

 

Class Information

Books and other resources

seminar snack schedule


Links

astrophysical constants and astronomical data in cgs

SIMBAD for information about astronomical objects

ADS for finding research articles

Astronomy Picture of the Day


department website

 

 


Maintained by David Cohen.


Last modified: April 30, 2019