[mesa-users] SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND FOR MESA

[Warrick Ball]

Siddhant,

If you'd like to read some (free) materials that cover the standard core 
of most courses on stellar evolution, I usually recommend the lecture 
notes by Onno Pols (hosted on Norbert Langer's page) [1].  I often re-use 
some of the high-quality figures in there (until I get around to remaking 
them myself with MESA, of course!).

There are also Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard's notes on stellar evolution 
[2] and Edward Brown's notes on stellar astrophysics (part of the Open 
Astrophysics Bookshelf) [3].  I'm less familiar with the latter.  And 
don't confuse JCD's stellar evolution notes with his notes on stellar 
oscillations. [4]

And there are also many shorter sets of notes online.  Try searching! 
Onno's and JCD's notes were the third and second hits, respectively, for 
"stellar evolution lecture notes".

Cheers,
Warrick

[1] https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~nlanger/siu_web/teach_sse.html
[2] http://astro.phys.au.dk/~jcd/evolnotes/LN_stellar_structure.pdf
[3] http://www.pa.msu.edu/~ebrown/docs/stellar-notes.pdf
[4] http://users-phys.au.dk/jcd/oscilnotes/



On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, siddhant solanki wrote:

> Dear all,
> I am a high school student and have started with MESA, however I feel that I must do some research and have some insight into stellar evolution
> before I start MESA.
> Can anyone please tell me whether I should continue from the MESA site and learn every new term I come across or should I do a basic or perhaps an
> advanced course in stellar astronomy before I start MESA.
> Also please give me some additional material links if thy are necessary.
> Thanks
> SIDDHANT
> 
>


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Warrick Ball
Postdoc, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen
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