Astro Notes

Astro Notes

Class Notes

  • Astro210
  • Class Notes

General Notes

  • Degenerate Matter
  • collapser
  • runaway-RLOF
  • BH
  • surface of last scattering
  • thermal-timescale
  • stellar streams
  • antibiotic-index
  • kilonova
  • natal-kick
  • odd modes
  • photon-gas
  • Swift Observatory
  • WD SNe
  • algol type
  • Proper Motion
  • Recycled Pulsar
  • Relativistic Beaming
  • Hierarchical Merger
  • Magnetic Breaking
  • Mass loss from a circumbinary disk
  • Pauli Exclusion Principle
  • Eddington Limit
  • Eddington Luminosity Limit
  • Edge Limit Detonation
  • Even Modes
  • Blue-stragglers
  • Case A RLO
  • Case B RLO
  • Chandrasekhar Limit
  • Comptonization
  • Barium-stars
  • Ellipsoidal Modulation

Paper Notes

  • Elusive hot stripped helium stars (Yungelson)
  • A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole (el-badry)
  • An upper limit on short-period BH companions (greenUpper)

AstroBites

  • What happens when you poke a black hole
  • Many Mergers Might Fill the Mass Gap
  • We’re Going to Steal the Moon (For Gravitational Waves)
  • A Wandering SMBH Eating a Star
  • Live Fast Die Immediately

Physics of Binary Star Evolution

  • Evolution of single stars
  • Formation and Evolution of LMXBs
  • Roche equipotential
  • Visual binaries and the universal validity of the laws of physics
  • Orbits and masses of spectroscopic binaries

Tools

  • POSYDON Notes

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