Lectures in Nuclear Astrophysics Course I:

  • Lecture 1: Nuclear Astrophysics:Introduction (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 2: Equations of state, Pressures, Hydrostatic Equilibrium (ppspdf
  • Lecture 3: Polytropes:  White Dwarfs and Main Sequence Stars (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 4: Luminosity Gradient, Energy Transport, Eddington's Standard Model (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 5: Generalized Adiabatic Coefficients, Equilibrium Theorems, Convection (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 6: Nuclear Reaction Rates (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 7: The Path to Cross Sections and the Gamow Window (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 8: Power Law Reaction Rates, Nuclear Energy Generation and Polytropes (ppspdf)
  • Lecture 9: Mass-luminosity relation, Herzsprung-Russel diagram (ppspdf)
  • Lectures 9 & 10: pp-Chain, CNO Cycles: Connection to the Herzsprung Russel Diagram (ppspdf)
  • Lectures 11 & 12:  Further on Reaction Rates, Nuclear Resonances, Resonant Reaction Rate (ppspdf)

Lectures in Nuclear Astrophysics Course II:

  • Lecture 1: Inverse Reaction Rates, PP-Chain Nucleosynthesis (pps, pdf)
  • Lecture 2: CNO Cycle and Connection Red Giant Stellar Abundances (pps, pdf)
  • Lecture 3,4: Helium Burning:  Triple-α Reaction, Sakurai's Object;Carbon-α Burning, Heavy Ion Burning (pps, pdf)
  • Lecture 5,6: Novae Explosions and Resonant Reaction Rate Measurements (pps, pdf)
  • Lecture 7: Hot CNO Cycles, Waiting Point Nuclei, X-Ray Bursts (pps, pdf)
  • Lecture 8,9: Ignition Masses, Oxygen Burning, Silicon "Melt" and Quasi-Equilibrium (pps, pdf)
  • V Lecture 10,11: The s-Process and r-Process, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (pps, pdf)

Exercises in Nuclear Astrophysics Course: