Chapter 18 (week 7 & 8)
- effects of gas and dust on starlight
- characteristics of interstellar dust
- characteristics of emission nebulae
- characteristics of reflection nebulae
- characteristics of absorption nebulae
- characteristics of molecular clouds
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- interstellar medium
- polarization
- extinction
- reddening
- emission nebula
- reflection nebula
- absorption nebula
- molecular cloud
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Chapter 19 (week 8)
- star forming regions
- formation of solar mass stars
- observational evidence of star forming regions
- characteristics of open clusters
- characteristics of globular clusters
- supplemental reading:
- EGGS (evaporating gaseous globules)
- Photoevaporation
- protostellar winds; bipolar jets; HH objects
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- evolutionary track
- protostar
- zero-age main sequence
- open cluster
- globular cluster
- Evaporating gaseous globules
- photoevaporation
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Chapter 20 (week 9 & 10)
- evolutionary tracks
- core nucleosynthesis: solar mass stars
- core nucleosynthesis massive stars
- post main sequence evolution solar mass stars
- post main sequence evolution massive star)
- helium burning, helium flash
- shell burning
- electron degeneracy
- giants
- supergiants
- formation of planetary nebulae
- characteristics of white dwarfs
- evolution in binary systems
- effect of mass transfer in binary systems
- the Algol system
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- hydrogen burning
- red giant branch
- helium flash
- asymptotic giant branch
- main sequence turn off
- main sequence fitting
- degeneracy
- planetary nebula
- contact binary
- Roche lobe
- Lagrange point
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Chapter 21 (week 10)
- characteristics and what causes nova
- characteristics and what causes type I supernova
- characteristics and what causes Type II supernova
- nucleosythesis in massive stars
- formation of the elements
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- nova
- type I supernova
- type II supernova
- supernova remnant
- accretion disk
- nucleosynthesis
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