Chapter 16 Star Birth Where do stars form? Star
... Fusion and Contraction • Fusion will not begin in a contracting cloud if some sort of force stops contraction before the core temperature rises above 107 K. • Thermal pressure cannot stop contraction because the star is constantly losing thermal energy from its surface through radiation • Is there a ...
... Fusion and Contraction • Fusion will not begin in a contracting cloud if some sort of force stops contraction before the core temperature rises above 107 K. • Thermal pressure cannot stop contraction because the star is constantly losing thermal energy from its surface through radiation • Is there a ...
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... FX = factor for motion perpendicular to line between observer and Moon FY = factor for motion parallel to line between observer and Moon delta = time before and after transit of measurements A and C respectively Dec = apparent declination of the Moon Factor = expansion factor to determine velocity a ...
... FX = factor for motion perpendicular to line between observer and Moon FY = factor for motion parallel to line between observer and Moon delta = time before and after transit of measurements A and C respectively Dec = apparent declination of the Moon Factor = expansion factor to determine velocity a ...
Tutorial: Motion
... Come to a consensus answer you both agree on If you get stuck or are not sure of your answer ask another group If you get really stuck or don’t understand what the Lecture Tutorial is asking as one of us for help ...
... Come to a consensus answer you both agree on If you get stuck or are not sure of your answer ask another group If you get really stuck or don’t understand what the Lecture Tutorial is asking as one of us for help ...
Background Science - Faulkes Telescope Project
... The enormous explosion from these stars ejects material into the surroundings at very high velocities, sweeping up the surrounding gas into a shell or a giant bubble. This is known as a supernova remnant. The ejected material and the swept-up compressed gas are very hot. The shell (or bubble) shines ...
... The enormous explosion from these stars ejects material into the surroundings at very high velocities, sweeping up the surrounding gas into a shell or a giant bubble. This is known as a supernova remnant. The ejected material and the swept-up compressed gas are very hot. The shell (or bubble) shines ...
A Target of Opportunity Observing System for NOAO Rob Seaman
... All share autonomous trends (power tools) ...
... All share autonomous trends (power tools) ...
Exoplanets for Amateur Astronomers
... signal to noise ratio, which means that for earth bound observations, transparency and stillness of sky are more important that size of scope. Confirming exoplanets by transit method also requires multiple measurements to rule out false positives, so it is time consuming (bigger the orbital period, ...
... signal to noise ratio, which means that for earth bound observations, transparency and stillness of sky are more important that size of scope. Confirming exoplanets by transit method also requires multiple measurements to rule out false positives, so it is time consuming (bigger the orbital period, ...
Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models
... spirals, and finally dwarf galaxies. The power spectrum is used to measure the power of density perturbations on a certain scale. The current cosmological model predicts a HarrisonZel’dovich spectrum (P (k) ∝ k, where k is the wavenumber). This power spectrum predicts more power on small scale, so t ...
... spirals, and finally dwarf galaxies. The power spectrum is used to measure the power of density perturbations on a certain scale. The current cosmological model predicts a HarrisonZel’dovich spectrum (P (k) ∝ k, where k is the wavenumber). This power spectrum predicts more power on small scale, so t ...
Chapter 8 powerpoint presentation
... The name of this method is a bit deceiving as it incorrectly implies some measure of stellar parallax. Actually, what happens is we obtain a spectrum for a star of unknown distance. We use the spectrum to determine the spectral type, which locates it on the x-axis of the H-R diagram. Now draw a line ...
... The name of this method is a bit deceiving as it incorrectly implies some measure of stellar parallax. Actually, what happens is we obtain a spectrum for a star of unknown distance. We use the spectrum to determine the spectral type, which locates it on the x-axis of the H-R diagram. Now draw a line ...
Chapter 02
... Stars are named by a Greek letter ( ) according to their relative brightness within a given constellation + the possessive form of the name of the constellation: ...
... Stars are named by a Greek letter ( ) according to their relative brightness within a given constellation + the possessive form of the name of the constellation: ...
Celestial Objects
... Ecliptic 9 – The apparent path of the Sun through the sky. This path corresponds to the zodiac constellations, the set of constellations through which the Moon and planets also appear to move. Because it’s the Earth and not the Sun that is actually moving, the ecliptic corresponds to the plane of th ...
... Ecliptic 9 – The apparent path of the Sun through the sky. This path corresponds to the zodiac constellations, the set of constellations through which the Moon and planets also appear to move. Because it’s the Earth and not the Sun that is actually moving, the ecliptic corresponds to the plane of th ...
Making Heavier Metals
... have not yet evolved to the AGB phase. Hence they are totally unable to produce heavy elements. So how can there be heavy elements in the CH-stars? This mystery was solved when it was realized that the CH-stars all belong to binary systems and that they therefore have a companion star [5]. That comp ...
... have not yet evolved to the AGB phase. Hence they are totally unable to produce heavy elements. So how can there be heavy elements in the CH-stars? This mystery was solved when it was realized that the CH-stars all belong to binary systems and that they therefore have a companion star [5]. That comp ...
The APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL)
... The telescope patterns are linear on-thefly maps, where the telescope scans at (typically) 3 arcminute/s along a line, and the step between lines is 1.5 arc minutes. The 11-arcminute field of view and 295 pixels of LABOCA ensure a high redundancy in a single map. In addition, each position in the s ...
... The telescope patterns are linear on-thefly maps, where the telescope scans at (typically) 3 arcminute/s along a line, and the step between lines is 1.5 arc minutes. The 11-arcminute field of view and 295 pixels of LABOCA ensure a high redundancy in a single map. In addition, each position in the s ...
Document
... All commanding for the transition to Two Gyro Science mode was successful. Commanding included modifying control law gains for T2G, loading FSW support files for TGS, modifying +D SPA commanding in new TGS safemode macros, transitioning to TGS mode, and performing a full RAM dump. Transition to TGS ...
... All commanding for the transition to Two Gyro Science mode was successful. Commanding included modifying control law gains for T2G, loading FSW support files for TGS, modifying +D SPA commanding in new TGS safemode macros, transitioning to TGS mode, and performing a full RAM dump. Transition to TGS ...
Stellar Evolution (Formation)
... Sun has enough H in its core to produce energy for about 1010 yrs. (It is about halfway through its life now.) When the core’s H is exhausted, there will be no more nuclear energy to heat the gas. Gravity will win over gas pressure and the core will collapse. Gravitational potential energy of th ...
... Sun has enough H in its core to produce energy for about 1010 yrs. (It is about halfway through its life now.) When the core’s H is exhausted, there will be no more nuclear energy to heat the gas. Gravity will win over gas pressure and the core will collapse. Gravitational potential energy of th ...
Rosette Nebula - Westchester Amateur Astronomers
... Top row, left: H1 strain. Top row, right: L1 strain. GW150914 arrived first at L1 and 6.9 (+0.5/-0.4) ms later at H1; for a visual comparison, the H1 data are also shown, shifted in time by this amount and inverted (to account for the detectors’ relative orientations). Second row: Gravitational-wave ...
... Top row, left: H1 strain. Top row, right: L1 strain. GW150914 arrived first at L1 and 6.9 (+0.5/-0.4) ms later at H1; for a visual comparison, the H1 data are also shown, shifted in time by this amount and inverted (to account for the detectors’ relative orientations). Second row: Gravitational-wave ...
Measuring the Stars Section 29.2
... Luminosity is measured in units of energy emitted per second, or watts. The Sun’s luminosity is about 3.85 × 1026 W. The values for other stars vary widely, from about 0.0001 to more than 1 million times the Sun’s luminosity. No other stellar property varies as much. ...
... Luminosity is measured in units of energy emitted per second, or watts. The Sun’s luminosity is about 3.85 × 1026 W. The values for other stars vary widely, from about 0.0001 to more than 1 million times the Sun’s luminosity. No other stellar property varies as much. ...
Hipparcos
Hipparcos was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993. It was the first space experiment devoted to precision astrometry, the accurate measurement of the positions of celestial objects on the sky. This permitted the accurate determination of proper motions and parallaxes of stars, allowing a determination of their distance and tangential velocity. When combined with radial-velocity measurements from spectroscopy, this pinpointed all six quantities needed to determine the motion of stars. The resulting Hipparcos Catalogue, a high-precision catalogue of more than 118,200 stars, was published in 1997. The lower-precision Tycho Catalogue of more than a million stars was published at the same time, while the enhanced Tycho-2 Catalogue of 2.5 million stars was published in 2000. Hipparcos ' follow-up mission, Gaia, was launched in 2013.The word ""Hipparcos"" is an acronym for High precision parallax collecting satellite and also a reference to the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Nicaea, who is noted for applications of trigonometry to astronomy and his discovery of the precession of the equinoxes.