Introduction to Stellar populations / Stellar evolution recap
7 Março 2022, 08:30 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida
# Introduction to Stellar populations (cont)
- Observational tools
- Stellar populations in the Milky Way
- Quick look of colour-magnitude diagrams of nearby dwarf galaxies
- Simple stellar populations
- Questions addressed in this course
# Stellar evolution recap
- HR Diagram and colour-magnitude diagrams of the Milky Way
- Stellar evolutionary tracks
- Mass dependent lifetimes
- Isochrones
- The Initial Mass Function
Additional reading:
- Chap 1 - Greggio & Renzini
- Chap 13 - Carroll & Ostlie