ASTR7741

Fall Semester, 2007

Joel E. Tohline
tohline@lsu.edu

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~tohline/courses/ASTR7741.07/projects.shtml

Project Assignments

Name
Assignment
Pagnotta A "standard candle" critique of various SN Ia progenitor models
Byerly Light-curves from hydrodynamic models of mass-transferring binaries
Mapping a population of DWD binaries onto LISA's rh-f domain
Binary separation during mass-transfer
Zhang Map of "night sky" in gravitational waves
Collazzi Radial oscillations in n = 1 polytropes
Lee Add an isothermal atmosphere to the "donor" of a DWD binary
Caudill Strain curve for collapsing, rotating stellar core
Spin Down of Pulsars due to Gravitational Radiation
General Relativistic Structure of Spherical Polytropes
Xiao What Makes a Jet in an Accreting Compact Binary System?
Andrews, J. Supernova Blastwaves and the Formation of Dust