AST 1410 – Long presentation topics (2022)

Here are some possible suggestions for topics. But do feel free to make up your own!!

• Superwind (including the recent discovery of the importance of binarity; Decin et al., 2019NatAs.tmp..213D)
• Third dredge-up and relation to carbon stars
• r processes and neutron-star mergers.
• Formation and evolution of zero-metallicity stars
• Formation of massive and zero-metallicity stars; implications for reionisation
• Luminous Blue Variables
• Effects of rotation on stellar evolution (incl. chemically homogeneous evolution)
• Pair instability supernovae
• Mass transfer, blue stragglers, contact binaries.
• Paths to type Ia supernovae
• Forming neutron-star binaries.

• Monday March 21

  Michael

  Pre-main-sequence ``Dippers''

  Evelyn

  Magnetism and stellar activity

• Monday March 28

  Yansong

  Mean molecular weight effects on convection and mixing

  Mairead

  Pair instability supernovae