Tutorial: Concepts of Galactic Astrophysics

Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck | Course Catalogue | Course in OLAT

This tutorial is aimed at supporting the lecture Concepts of Galactic Astrophysics and thus also follows its basic content structure. The chapters are: I Interstellar Matter, II Prestellar and Protostellar Evolution, III From Protostars to Stars, IV Stellar Nucleosynthesis, V Late Stellar Evolution, VI Stellar Remnants, VII Planets, VII Exoplanets, IX The Milky Way.

If you are a teacher*, you can request the solutions to the exercise sheets as well as all the .tex files and the used graphics and figures via E-Mail: harald.hoeller@uibk.ac.at.

Course Material

Exercise Sheets

• Ex 1: Saha Equation, Jeans Instability, Free-Fall Time Scale (.pdf)
• Ex 2: Accretion to a Hydrostatic Core (.pdf)
• Ex 3: taken from http://www.johnpratt.com/items/astronomy/exercises/hrquiz.html
• Ex 4: Nuclear Time Scale, Energy Output by Nucleosynthesis (.pdf)
• Ex 5: Slow Contraction Phase, Stellar Evolution (.pdf)
• Ex 6: Mass-Luminosity Relation, Stellar Wind, Line Driven Winds (.pdf)
• Ex 7: Supernova Maximum Light, Neutron Star Rotation, Neutron Star Blackbody Emission, Chandrasekhar Mass Limit (.pdf)
• Ex 8: Band Filters, Saturn, Fluxes and Magnitudes (.pdf)
• Ex 9: Hubble Space Telescope, The Light Curve of a Binary, Double-line Spectroscopic Binary (.pdf)
• Ex 10: Newtonian Schwarzschild Radius, Keplers Laws, Exoplanet around Glise 581 (.pdf)
• Final Exam: Energy Transport on ZAMS, Polytropic EOS for Planet (.pdf)

Introductory Mathematica Tutorial

• Introductory Mathematica 8 Tutorial (presentation, .nb, 230KB, 26.01.2012)
• Introductory Mathematica 8 Tutorial (expanded version with outputs, .nb, 380KB, 26.01.2012)
• Introductory Mathematica 8 Tutorial (expanded version with outputs, .pdf, 3.1MB, 26.01.2012)

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 (.pdf)
• Lecture 2 (.pdf)
• Lecture 7 (.pdf)

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