Standard Solar Model: Learn About Its Complexity

[Leonardo Machado]

Hi everyone.
I'm looking for a good book or some good source of informations about the stantard solar models, but i can only find compact stars stuff. Do you guys have any sugestions ?

 

[Helios]

My only star book is "An introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure" by Chandrasekhar. It's out of my depths in places, but the basics are there too and are very comprehensible. It's a Dover book paperback. I suppose it's classic because that's what Dover chooses.

 

[Chronos]

Here are some free references that should keep you busy for awhile: http://www.ice.csic.es/personal/aldos/Solar_Models.html. Without knowing you precise interests, this one may be more suitable: http://cos.colorado.edu/~kevinf/PAPERS/solmodel.pdf.

 

[phyzguy]

A great reference is the http://mesa.sourceforge.net/index.html, which has software for stellar evolution. To look at a model of the sun, click on "code capabilities" and then "Evolve a 1 Msun star". If you download the movie of the evolution, it has pretty much everything you might want to know about the conditions in the sun - temperature, pressure, composition, ... You can single step through the movie and watch the sun evolve. Model # 279, with a log(age) of 9.71 years most closely matches the condition of the sun today. I think it's interesting to note that the sun is already ~68% He4 at the center - the gas tank is down to half full!

 

[jonesdave]

There is a comprehensive list on the website of former JPL astrophysicist Tim Thompson. I first came across Tim as I was investigating a certain pseudoscience, and Tim is a great debunker of such. Hopefully I can link the page. It hasn't been updated in some years, but is still very relevant:
http://www.tim-thompson.com/fusion.html#note1

Check out the references at the bottom of the page, a number of which are textbooks.