Nuclear Astrophysics

Edward Brown collected material for his junior/senior undergraduate course on stars at MSU. The notes derive how stars work by introducing the necessary knowledge for section 5, "Burn."   

Radiation in Astrophysics notes cover a few radiation topics used in astrophysics, such as synchrotron radiation, spectral lines, Bremsstrahlung Radiation, and simple radiating systems.

The collected material was presented at the National Nuclear Physics Summer School 2024. 

The notes were written for the graduate-level astronomy course at MSU. The topics included the equation of state, separation energy, Hydrogen burning, catalytic cycles such as CNO and triple-alpha reaction, and more.  

These provide an overview of stellar evolution and its applications. They introduce the equation of the state of stellar interiors, polytropic stellar models, energy transport in stellar interiors, nuclear processes in stars, stellar models, stellar stability, and more. 

The collected material was presented at the 45th International School of Nuclear Physics “Nuclei in the Laboratory and in Stars”. The present lecture covers the needs in improving the network calculations for the r process. Discuss the kilonova models and, along them, the Monte Carlo 3D radiative transfer  Type Ia supernova using the ARTIS code.

An introduction to computer arithmetic precision describes the method of calculating roots and represents the two-body gravitational problem with the Runge-Kutta method. It also contains exercises.