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Recycling in the Universe Alyssa A. Goodman Department of Astronomy Harvard University Recycling on Earth & In Galaxies Recycling in the Universe Making the First Recyclables... Fluctuations about 300,000 years after the Big Bang lead to “Structure Formation.” Gravitational collapse of some of these “structures” produces the first stars and galaxies. Pretty young galaxies "Star Formation 101" Molecular Cloud Young Star with Outflow + Protoplanetary Disk Protostellar Core “Main Sequence” Star (with Planets) Molecular Clouds: The Stuff of New Stars The Oschin telescope, 48-inch aperture wide-field Schmidt camera at Palomar Red Plate, Digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey How much stuff is there? “Star-counting” Counts of stars per unit area measure how much material must be producing obscuration. Observations by Alves, Lada & Lada 199 Radio Spectral-line Observations of Molecular Clouds Spectral Line Observations How do Optical & Radio Views Compare? Region of Radio Spectral-Line Survey Observations by Alves, Lada & Lada 199 Cold, Dark & Dusty Gas and Dust are Very Cold in Molecular Clouds, T~10=100 Kelvin Dust at 10 K “Glows” in the Far-Infrared Recycling in the Universe Storage & Collection in Interstellar Medium Discarding Processing, Production Consumption Consumption of Recyclables The "Initial Mass Function" (IMF) Relative Number of Stars The Hertzprung-Russell Diagram 1 e.g. for every "Sun" there are 22 stars with mass 10x smaller than the Sun's 6 5 4 3 2 0.1 6 5 4 3 2 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 Mass Relative to the Sun Stellar Recyclables The Hertzprung-Russell Diagram Supernova, then neutron star/pulsar or black hole Red giant then white dwarf Long-lived brown dwarfs Spectacular contribution, and collection. Explosion injects, and "sweeps up" interstellar material. Good recyclables. Red-giant wind main dust injection in ISM. "Styrofoam" Stellar Winds: Discarding the Recyclables Mass=100 x Sun "Excess Gas?" (Post-red-giant planetary nebula) Stellar Recyclables The Hertzprung-Russell Diagram Supernova, then neutron star/pulsar or black hole Red giant then white dwarf Long-lived brown dwarfs Spectacular contribution, and collection. Explosion injects, and "sweeps up" interstellar material. Good recyclables. Red-giant wind main dust injection in ISM. "Styrofoam" Massive Stars & Supernovae Winds from O stars account for 30% of recylcable input to ISM Supernovae from O stars throw out much of the remaining mass Biggest contribution of (correlated) supernovae is to “collection” Swept-up Gas:The Next Generation Far-infrared dust emission map of North Celestial Pole Loop, Pound & Goodman 1997 Spectral-line Emission from Gas In Cassiopeia Tóth et al. 1995 (At least) How much Gas is SweptUp? Radius R 20 pc 4 3 Volume V R 3 Density Mass / Volume ISM 1 atom / cc 1.67 1024 g / cc 4 3 Massswept up R 1.5 10 36 g = 800 Solar Masses 3 Recycling in the Universe Storage & Collection in Interstellar Medium Discarding Processing, Production Consumption Young Stars do Their Share Too "Cores" and Outflows Giant Molecular Clouds Jets and Disks Solar System Formation One Picture with the Whole Story Bipolar Wind from Massive Star Cluster of MainSequence Stars Molecular Cloud Recycling in the Universe(?) For more information... cfa-www.harvard.edu/~agoodman and Alyssa Goodman's upcoming article in Sky & Telescope Magazine