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Transcript
Theoretical Modeling
of Massive Stars
Mr. Russell
University of Delaware
Department of Physics
and Astronomy
Massive Stars
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20-100 times the Sun’s mass
• Sun has 300,000 Earths in it
• Massive star has 6,000,000-30,000,000
Earths: Absolutely Huge!
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Extremely Bright
• Blinding if placed next to Sun
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Short Lifetime-millions of years
• Sun lives 10 billion years
• 10,000 Massive Stars live and die in Sun’s
lifetime
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Produce/distribute almost all elements
past H and He in supernova
Massive Stars
Light from all galaxies is dominated
by massive stars
 Can only resolve massive stars in
close galaxies, not small stars
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• All individual stars seen in Whirlpool
galaxy are massive stars
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Can only see light from massive
stars in distant galaxies
• All small stars are outshined so light
from galaxies shown in Hubble UltraDeep Field is all from massive stars
Whirlpool Galaxy (NASA)
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (NASA)
Why Make Models?
Can’t make a star in the laboratory
 Can’t travel to them
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Can observe light from stars
 Can apply physical laws and concepts
to learn about stars
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• use computer models to simulate
properties of stars
• match model results to observational
data
Eta Carinae
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Thought to be most
massive star(s) in our
Milky Way Galaxy
10 M_sun Bipolar
Nebula enshrouds
star(s) from 1840’s
“Giant Eruption”
Very close so lots of
data
Data predicts system
is actually a binary
system with one star
~90 M_sun and the
other ~30 M_sun
Think it is in last
stages of life before
big star undergoes a
supernova
X-Rays of Eta Carinae
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High energy X-rays penetrate nebula allowing light
directly from star(s) to be detected
Colleague made a model to simulate the two stars
I analyzed the results to see how the X-ray brightness
of the star(s) changed over time
Excellent comparison between model and observation:
suggests Eta Carinae is indeed a binary system