The course is taught in English by
Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo, Tel. 06159 71 2750,
g.martinez at gsi.de, Schlossgartenstraße 2, room 304
Exercises:
Bastian Schütrumpf, Tel. 06159 71 1819, b.schuetrumpf@gsi.de
Schlossgartenstraße 2, room 04
It covers fundamental theoretical aspects of Nuclear
Astrophysics.
Main topics include:
- Course description
- Introduction
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis
- Lecture 04: Cosmological Model: basic ideas
(Slides, Notes)
- Lecture 05: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
(Notes,Slides)
Exercise Sheet 3 (Solutions)
Further reading:
R. H. Cyburt, B. D. Fields, K. A. Olive, and
T.-H. Yeh, Big bang nucleosynthesis:
Present status, Rev. Mod. Phys. 88, 15004 (2016)
V. Mukhanov, Nucleosynthesis Without a Computer, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 43, 669 (2004)
- Additional material:
- Mathematica Notebook for a BBN
calculation (pdf version)
- Public Algorithm Evaluating the Nucleosynthesis of
Primordial Elements
(PArthENoPE): a numerical
code which
computes the abundances of light nuclides produced during Big Bang
Nucleosynthesis.
- Thermonuclear Reactions in Stars
- Stellar structure
- Hydrogen Burning
- The Sun
- Advanced Burning
- Lecture 11: Hellium burning, Intermediate mass stars
(Slides,
Notes)
- Lecture 12: Evolution massive stars
(Slides)
- Supernova
- Lecture 13: Nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae
(Slides)
- Lecture 14: Explosion mechanism(s) of core-collapse supernova
(Slides)
- Neutron stars
- Nucleosynthesis of Heavy Elements
- Lecture 16: The r process
(Slides)
Bibliography
- Christian Iliadis: Nuclear Physics of Stars, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim,
2007
- Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie: An Introduction to Modern
Astrophysics, Pearson/Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, 2nd ed. 2007
- Claus E. Rolfs and William S. Rodney: Cauldrons in the Cosmos: Nuclear
Astrophysics, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, reprint 2005
- Bernard E. J. Pagel: Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, reprint 2009
- Donald D. Clayton: Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis,
Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, reprint 1983
- Rudolf Kippenhahn, Alfred Weigert, Achim
Weiss:
Stellar Structure and Evolution, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg,
2012 (Accesible online from the TU
Darmstadt network)
- André Maeder: Physics, Formation and Evolution of Rotating Stars,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (Accesible online from the TU
Darmstadt network)
- Giora Shaviv: The
Synthesis of the Elements: The Astrophysical Quest for Nucleosynthesis and
What It Can Tell Us About the Universe, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Heidelberg, 2012 (Accesible online from the TU
Darmstadt network)
- Edward Kolb and Michael Turner, The Early Universe, Westview Press,
1994
- Steven Weinberg, Cosmology, Oxford University Press, 2008
An online introduction to basic astronomical concepts can be found at Astronomy Notes
We recomend to look regularly at the Astronomy
Picture of the Day
Suggested readings for the presentations
The schedule for the presentations and examinations is available
here
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M. Agostini, et al, Comprehensive
measurement of
pp-chain solar neutrinos
Nature 562, 505
(2018).
doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0624-y
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M. Beard, S. M. Austin, and
R. Cyburt, Enhancement of the Triple Alpha
Rate in a Hot Dense Medium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112701
(2017).
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.112701
arXiv:1708.07204
[nucl-th]
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M.-R. Wu, J. Barnes, G. Martínez-Pinedo, and B. D. Metzger,
Fingerprints of heavy element
nucleosynthesis in the late-time lightcurves of kilonovae
, Phys. Rev. Lett., accepted
(2019).
arXiv:1808.10459v2
[astro-ph.HE]
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S. De, D. Finstad, J. M. Lattimer, D. A. Brown, E. Berger, and
C. M. Biwer, Tidal Deformabilities and
Radii of Neutron Stars from the Observation of GW170817
,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 4 (2018).
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091102
arXiv:1804.08583v4 [astro-ph.HE]
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S. J. Prentice, et al, The Cow: Discovery of a Luminous,
Hot, and Rapidly Evolving Transient,Astrophys. J. 865, L3
(2018).
doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aadd90
arXiv:1807.05965v3 [astro-ph.HE]