For this project, each of you will be assigned one phase of stellar evolution (or one type of star). This can be anything from red giants to Be stars to Wolf-rayet stars. You should describe the following:
For presentation, you will need to use the aastex package and learn the basics of putting together a paper in latex. The paper should be approximately five manuscript pages of text and can include relevant plots and diagrams. In all, it should not exceed ten pages including text and figures.
You can find information on AASTEX here:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AAS/AASTeX/
and you can find a sample file here:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AAS/AASTeX/sample.tex You should be able to modify it for your project.
Click here to download the style file.
In order to compile your paper.tex document, you will need access to a unix machine or a mac (OS X). Most machines in the department already have latex installed. If you do not have access to a latex compiler, please let me know. Before you compile your document, you’ll need to put the “style file” into the same directory as your paper. You can then compile the document by typing: latex paper.tex at the prompt. Usually, it’s a good idea to run latex twice. This outputs a paper.dvi file and you can use the command: dvips paper.dvi to convert this to a ps file.
Apparently this can also be accomplished in Windows by using MiKTeX (www.miktex.org) with either of the following: WinEdt (www.winedt.com) or TeXnic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/texniccenter/) I don't use windows, though, so you'll have to ask another student about installing these.
Based on 100 points total, distributed as a listed above between the five main criteria. This project is worth 20% of your final grade.
If there's a topic you'd like to do, but you don't see it on the list, then let me know. We can try to work something out