Achim Weiss

Research interests:

• Stellar evolution of low-mass stars:

  • The Sun (with Helmut Schlattl, M.P. di Mauro, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard)

  • Asteroseismology (M.P. di Mauro, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, and J. Ballot)

  • Clusters, globular and open (with M. Salaris, F. Meissner, S. Cassisi, and others)

  • Stellar ages (with M. Salaris, B. P. Jofre, and others)

  • Core Helium flash (w. E. Müller, A. Serenelli, M. Mocak)

  • Evolution of Pop III stars (with S. Cassisi, M. Salaris, H. Schlattl)

  • Deep mixing (with P. Denissenkov, C. Charbonnel, and others)

• Population synthesis (with Stephane Charlot, P. Coelho, L. Girardi and others)

• AGB- and post-AGB-evolution (with A. Kitsikis, M. Miller-Bertolami, P. Marigo, L. Girardi, C. Chiosi)

  go to the Stellar Evolution research group homepage

The classical textbook on stellar structure - now available again!

Cox & Giuli's Principles of Stellar Structure
(extended second edition)


by
A. Weiss, W. Hillebrandt, H.-C. Thomas, and H. Ritter

Cambridge Scientific Publishers (2004)

hardcover 65 £
paperback 45 £
(also available at a reduced student rate of 30 £ from the publisher!)

Volume II: now available as PDF-files - please contact publisher

Lectures:

• A collection of lectures can be found here (mostly in German)

For students interested in a thesis in astrophysics:

• Master and PhD Thesis subjects (subjects mostly outdated; ask for current projects!)

Publications:

• A selection of recent papers

kürzlich erschienen:

Sterne

Was ihr Licht über die Materie im Kosmos verrät
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008)


von
Achim Weiß

Taschenbuch, 15 €

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Achim Weiss
MPA (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1
D-85748 Garching
Germany
Tel= + 49 89 30000 2213 (Room 303)
Fax= + 49 89 30000 2235
E-mail (for security reasons not explicitly given) [First Name Initial + Last name] at mpa-garching.mpg.de

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