Stellar Atmospheres, Fall 2001

	Stellar Atmospheres
	Fall 2001

Course description/Beskrivning

Being revised...

N.B.: Lectures and exercises will be in English.

N.B.: All problem sets and computer labs must be completed successfully before being allowed to take the final exam.

Day	Date	Time	Class	Please turn in
Tuesday	Aug. 28	10:15 - 12:00	Lecture 1: Introduction	---
Tuesday	Sep. 4	10:15 - 12:00 13:15 - 15:00	Lecture 2: Radiative transfer Tutorial	---
Tuesday	Sep. 11	10:15 - 12:00	Lecture 3: Macrophysics	Problem set 1
Tuesday	Sep. 18	10:15 - 12:00	Lecture 4: Line opacity	Problem set 2
Tuesday	Sep. 25	10:15 - 12:00 13:15 - 15:00	Lecture 5: Absorption profiles Tutorial	---
Monday	Oct. 1	10:00	--->	Problem set 2!
Tuesday	Oct. 2	10:15 - 12:00 13:15 - 15:00	Lecture 6: Line broadening Tutorial	---
Monday	Oct. 8	10:00	--->	Problem set 3
Tuesday	Oct. 9	10:15 - 12:00 13:15 - 15:00	Lecture 7: Numerical techniques Tutorial	---
Tuesday	Oct. 16	10:15 - 12:00 13:15 - 16:00	Guest lecture by Anja Andersen Tutorial	Lab report 1
Tuesday	Oct. 23	10:15 - 12:00 13:15 - 16:00	Lecture 9: More realistic models Tutorial	---
Tuesday	Oct. 30	10:15 - 12:00	Lecture 10: Observations	Lab report 2
Tuesday	Nov. 5	15:30	Planning meeting for exam
Tuesday	Nov. 27	9:00	FINAL EXAM

David F. Gray, The observation and analysis of stellar photospheres, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1992,
ISBN 0 521 40868 7 (paperback), ISBN 0 521 40320 0 (hardcover).

Unfortunately, the book is expensive and difficult to get in the stores; delivery times can be long.
WARNING: book price plus shipping can differ radically (roughly between SEK 400 and SEK 700).
You can compare several Internet booksellers, for example, at pricerunner.com.

You can also find the book in the student section of the library here, but since there are only two copies,
please be kind and remain in the library while you are reading so that other students have a chance to find the book, too.

Finally, once you have the book, be sure to look at these corrections!
R. J. Rutten, Lecture notes on Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres (December 2000 version).

Lecturer:	Prof. Nikolai Piskunov	(tel. 471-5958, Nikolai.Piskunov@astro.uu.se)
Tutor:	Michelle Mizuno-Wiedner	(tel. 471-5992, Michelle.Mizuno@astro.uu.se)

Uppsala Astronomical Observatory

Department of Astronomy and Space Physics

Uppsala University

Box 515

SE-751 20 Uppsala

SWEDEN

Last modified: Tue Mar 4 12:01:56 MET 2003
Corrections to: Michelle.Mizuno-Wiedner@astro.uu.se