Lecture 3: What makes a star?

Further reading

• John Bahcall, one of the giants of solar neutrino research, has an article on the neutrino problem at the Nobel Prize website called "Solving the Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos", http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/bahcall/index.html
• The stellar model applet is available at http://www.astro.umass.edu/~weinberg/a451/msapplet.html. Check out the "Help" button for suggestions on how to use it. The textbook it refers to is The Physics of Stars by A. C. Phillips (Wiley, 1999)

Sources for images used:

• SOHO image of a solar prominence on the Sun: from SOHO: Best of SOHO Images http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
• HST images of Betelgeuse and Mira: from the Hubble News Center: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1996/04/ and http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/26/
• Four forces: from "All Four Engines Out: Volcanic Ash, St Elmo's Fire and Electrostatics" by David Jamieson http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~dnj/jl/jl99/index.htm
• Structure of atom: from "Introductory Chemistry" by Nivaldo J. Tro, Fig. 04-06, http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/476/488316/ch04.html
• Strength of the electromagnetic force: from "All Four Engines Out: Volcanic Ash, St Elmo's Fire and Electrostatics" by David Jamieson, http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~dnj/jl/jl99/index.htm
• Mass-luminosity relation: from Auckland Astronomical Society http://www.astronomy.org.nz/aas/MonthlyMeetings/MeetingMay2002.asp
• Proton-proton chain: from Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology: The Proton-Proton Chain http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/energy/ppchain.html
• Equilibrium: from Chandra resources http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/normalstars.html
• CNO cycle: from "Formation of the High Mass Elements (a/k/a What Happens Inside a Star)" http://aether.lbl.gov/www/tour/elements/stellar/CNO.html
• Brown dwarf Gliese 229B: from Hubble News Center, http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1995/48/
• Eta Carinae: from Astronomy Picture of the Day 2002 April 28, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020428.html
• Sun's temperature structure: from Astronomy 122 Mid-term Exam 2 Review, http://physics.uoregon.edu/~jimbrau/astr122/Notes/Exam2rev.html
• Convection: from Chandra Resource: Normal stars (Illustrations), http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/normalstars.html
• Comparison of energy transport in different types of stars: from "Introduction to Astronomy" by Bram Boroson, http://www.bramboroson.com/astro/apr3.html
• Solar granules: from "Solar Physics: Photospheric features" http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/feature1.htm
• Davis experiment: from "Big World of Small Neutrinos", http://conferences.fnal.gov/lp2003/forthepublic/neutrinos/
• Super-Kamiokande: Diagram: from Super-K at U. of Washington, http://www.phys.washington,edu/~superk/uwgroup.html
• Photo of interior: from Photo Album of the SK detector, http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/doc/sk/photo/index.html
• Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun: from http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/main/item/151

Last updated 3 November 2016