Class Website: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mas/ay123_2007

Class hours: Wed 2:30-4:00, Fri 11:00-12:30; 106 Robinson
Office hours: Mon 3:00-4:00; 52B Robinson

Texts:
Hansen, Kawaler, and Trimble, Stellar Interiors, 2nd edition (2004) (Required)
Kippenhahn & Weigert, Stellar Structure and Evolution, (1990) (Optional)
Gray, The Observation and Analysis of Stellar Photospheres, 3rd edition (2005) (Optional)

Other References on Reserve in Library:

Aller, Astroophysics: The Atmospheres of the Stars

Arnett, Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis

Bohm-Vitense, Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, v. 1.

Chandrasekahr, Stellar Structure and Stellar Atmospheres

Clayton, Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, 1983.

Cox & Guili, Principles of Stellar Structure.

Gray - Lectures on Spectral-Line Analysis: F, G and K Stars

Kaler, Stars and Their Spectra: An Introduction to the Spectral Sequence

Kurucz - Atlas: A Computer Program for Calculating Model Stellar Atmospheres (1970)

Loore, Structure and Evolution of Single and Binary Stars

Mihalas - Stellar Atmospheres, 1978 (2nd ed)

Novotny - Introduction to Stellar Atmospheres

Phillips - The Physics of Stars

Raffelt - Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics

Rose - Advanced Stellar Astrophysics (1998)

Rutten - Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres, 1996

Schwarzchild - Structure and Evolution of the Stars, 1958.

Smart - Textbook on Spherical Astronomy, 1977