Astr 545 Stars and Accretion

Astr 545: Stars and Accretion

Stellar Structure

Nuclear Astrophysics

Nucleosynthesis in low-mass stars
- NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS: Relevance for Galactic Enrichment and Solar System Formation
  Busso, Gallino, and Wasserburg, 1999, ARAA 37, 239
Nucleosynthesis in high-mass stars
- Massive star evolution: nucleosynthesis and nuclear reaction rate uncertainties
  Heger et al. 2002, NewAR, 46, 463
r-process Nucleosynthesis
- The R-process and nucleochronology
  Cowan, Thielemann, and Truran, 1991, Phys. Rep. 208, 267

Variable Stars and Binaries

Cepheid Variables: Calibration and Applications
- Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant
  Freedman, W. et al. 2001, ApJ, 553, 47
Wolf Rayet Stars
- Physical Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars
  Crowther, P 2007, ARAA, 45, 177
Compact Binary Star Evolution
- The Evolution of Compact Binary Star Systems
  Postnv and Yungelson, 2006, Living Reviews in Relativity

Compact Objects

White Dwarf Cooling
- Cool White Dwarfs
  Hansen & Liebert, ARAA, 41, 465
White Dwarf Seismology
- Pulsating White Dwarf Stars and Precision Asteroseismology
  Winget and Kepler, ARAA, 46, 157
The Maximum Mass of a Neutron Star
- On the maximum mass of a uniformly rotating neutron star
  Friedman, J., & Ipser, J. 1987, ApJ, 314, 594
Magnetars

Accretion Processes

MRI-Driven Turbulence in Accretion Flows
- Instability, turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks
  Balbus, S., and Hawley, J., 1998, RvMP, 70, 1
Cataclysmic Variables

X-rays from Cataclysmic Variables
Kuulkers, et al. 2006, in Compact Stellar X-ray Sources

Black Hole Binaries
McClintock and Remillard 2006, in Compact Stellar X-ray Sources

Diskoseismology
- Basic Properties of Thin-Disk Oscillations
  Kato, S, 2001, PASJ, 53, 1
Relativistically Broadened Iron Lines in Accreting Black Holes
- Relativistic X-Ray Lines from the Inner Accretion Disks Around Black Holes
  Miller, 2007, ARAA, 45, 441