Literature for the "Stellar Astrophysics" course

A good basic text book is Carroll & Ostlie "An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics" (about 113.- $) or (including the previous book and adding information about the solar system, galaxies and cosmology) Carroll & Ostlie "An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics" (about 132.- $).

Another book at the same level: A. Unsöld & B. Baschek "The New Cosmos: an introduction to astronomy and astrophysics", 5th ed. Springer, 2001 (about 55.- $).
For those of you who plan to continue in physics and in astrophysics: D. D. Clayton "Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis", University of Chicago Press (about 29.- $).
I will bring those books to the first lecture, so you might want to have a look on them before buying something.

For general physics there are a lot of books, e.g. Tipler "Modern Physics" or Marcelo Alonso, Edward J. Finn "Physics" (Pearson Addison Wesley). As you already joined Introductory Physics I & II, you will have a book like this.

In the following table colour coding is used to indicate the level of complexity the articles have:
- basic knowledge. You do not have to read this article/book, but you should know the basics. Either from this book or from another.
- detailed description of topics discussed in the lecture. Very often review articles. Read as far as you understand them.
- articles about recent research. This is to see what the problems in this particular field are about today. Do not worry if you do not understand much - try to understand what the problem is and how the authors solved them.

Fall 2004

Lecture #	Topic	Literature
1	Introduction	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 1 The Nobel Prize in Physics - Articles Some highlights of astrophysical discoveries in the 20th century
2	Distances	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 2+3 Herter (webpage) Stellar Parallax Beuermann et al. 2004, An HST parallax of the distant cataclysmic variable V1223 Sgr, its system parameters, and accretion rate"
3,4	Gravitation	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 2+7 Herter (webpage) Eclipsing binaries Watson & Dhillon 2004, The effect of starspots on eclipse timings of binary stars
5,6	Radiation I	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 3+5 Webpage: Electromagnetic Spectrum Webpage: Fraunhofer lines Bergström 2000, Wave-particle dualism and quantum interference Hummer & Rybicki 1971, "The Formation of Spectral Lines", ARA&A, 9, p. 237-270 Ozel & Psaltis 2002, Spectral Lines from Rotating Neutron Stars
7,8,9	Radiation II	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 3+5 Webpage: Blackbody Radiation Rybicki & Lightman, "Radiative Processes in Astrophysics" Priraga 2002, Einstein's coefficients and the nature of thermal blackbody radiation King & Puchnarewicz 2002, Black Hole Blackbodies
10	Classification of Stars	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 8 Webpage: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagramm and Stellar Evolution Reid 1999, The HR Diagram and the Galactic Distance Scale After Hipparcos Bruijne et al. 2000, A Hipparcos study of the Hyades open cluster: Improved colour-absolute magnitude and Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
11,12,13	Interior of Stars	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 10 Webpage: The Interior of the Sun
14	The Sun	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 11 Thompson et al. 2003, The Internal Rotation of the Sun Fargion 2003, Detecting Solar Neutrino Flares and Flavors
15,16,17	Star formation	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 12 Evans II, Physical Conditions in Regions of Star Formation Tohline 2002, The Origin of Binary Stars Montalban et al. 2003, Convection in the atmospheres and envelopes of Pre-Main Sequence stars Simon et al. 2004, X-Ray and Infrared Observations of Embedded Young Stars in L1630 Endl et al. 2004, HD 137510: An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert
18-22	Stellar Evolution	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 13 Busso, Gallino, & Wasserburg 1999, Nucleosythesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars Abbott & Conti 1987, ARA&A 25, page 113-150
23	Pulsating Stars	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 14 Ngeow & Kanbur 2004, Period-luminosity relations for Galactic Cepheid variables with independent distance measurements
24+25	Degenerated Stars	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 15 Liebert 1980, "White Dwarf Stars", ARA&A 18, Page 363-398 Hansen & Liebert 2003, Cool White Dwarfs (be patient with download) Lattimer & Prakash 2004, "The Physics of Neutron Stars" Kramer 2004, Millisecond Pulsars as Tools of Fundamental Physics Liebert et al. 2004, A Helium White Dwarf of Extremely Low Mass van Kerkwijk 2004, Properties of Neutron Stars Horvath & Paulo 2004, Pulsar astrophysics : the glitch phenomenon
26	Black Holes	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 16 Melia & Falcke 2001, The Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center (be patient with download) Armitage 2004, Theory of disk accretion onto supermassive black holes
27	Close X-ray Binaries	Caroll & Ostlie, "Modern Astrophysics", Chapter 17
28	Recent research

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