AST 1410 – Short presentation topics (2022)
Short presentations
Thu Jan 23
- Ionisation: include why it happens at kT≪χH; pressure ionisation; extension to nuclei?
- Crystallisation: effect on EOS and latent heat. Victor
Thu Jan 30
- Neutron-star interior: HE in GR; effects of ever-increasing Fermi energy from outside to in; neutron drip; reasons why neutron gas not like degenerate gas, symmetry energy; Nan
- Electric fields in stellar atmospheres and settling of elements. Grace
- Basic opacity sources: electron scattering, bound-free, free-free; make T, ρ, X, Y, Z scalings plausible. Nolan
- Low-temperature opacities: H-; molecules, dust. Abigail
- Conduction: how does it work, when it is important.
- Real convection: what it looks like, what it implies for stars. Sarah
Thu Feb 6
- Quantum tunneling; how does it work; analogy with radioactive decay. Michael
- Relevance of resonances for fusion. Joshua
- Neutrino emission processes; Mattias
- pycno-nuclear processes: fusion at high density. Sarah