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Vintage Stars Doris Michue, Edgar Navarro, Lucy Rodriguez, Tony Trieu What is a Globular Cluster? Types of Telescopes Credited to Kathy Cooksey Sensitivity •Telescope size doubled from left to right. Credited to Astrometry The 40” Nickel Telescope At Lick observatory outside San Jose. We however observed remotely. Elinor Gates helped us observe. QuickTime™ and a TIF F (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. We took pictures with three different filters because CCD are color blind so we make them see color by using as filter. We took a long exposure to see faint stars and short exposure so we wouldn’t over saturate the picture. CCDs Very important in the field of astronomy. Used to collect light in a field array of pixels . CCDs are not perfect: 1. Cosmic rays 2. Hot pixels 3. Saturation 4. Low Charge Transfer Efficiency (CTE) 5. Read noise 6. Bias 7. Dead Pixel 8. Variable Quantum Efficiency (QE) 9. Dust Donuts http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20030729/ccd.jpg http://www.1394imaging.com/img/cameras/ccd.en.gif Data Reduction Two main elements to reducing data from raw images: 1. Using Biases to remove charge permanently stuck in CCD 2. Using Flat Fields to clean up dust donuts Bias Image Elinor Gates, Lick Observatory; 40” Nickel Telescope …into this! Turns this... Flat Field Elinor Gates, Lick Observatory; 40” Nickel Telescope Elinor Gates, Edgar Navarro; Lick Observatory; 40” Nickel Telescope Edgar Navarro Picking and Choosing We have a big pile of stars, now what? •Picking PSF (Point Spread Function Stars) •Defining what a star looks like •Determine brightness and color of each star Edgar Navarro Image prior to photometry Why are these two different? Edgar Navarro Image after photometry Edgar Navarro Low Mass Stars • Range from eight hundredths to eight times the mass of the sun • Stay on main sequence for billions of years • Fuse hydrogen for most of star’s life QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lessons/xray_spectra/images/life_cycles.jpg QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Death of Low Mass Stars QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Helium fusion ceases Core collapses Poof! QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. http://universe-review.ca/I08-09-planetarynebula2.jpg QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Color Magnitude Diagrams • Plots the magnitude and color of stars in our cluster. • All stars plotted are Red Giants and Helium Burning stars. Isochrones Generated by a computer which creates a simulation of the aging of stars of different masses. A freeze frame CMD (color magnitude diagram) of a group of stars with the same age. Can be used to determine the age and distance of a star cluster. Credited to: Scott Seagroves Finding Age Finding Distance Finding Distance By using this equation: d = 10 0.2 (m - M+ 5+ Ar) We can find the distance to our cluster. d= distance [in parsecs] M=absolute magnitude [the actual brightness] m=apparent [how bright the star appears to us] Ar=Extinction [amount of dust in-between us and our cluster] Globular Cluster M13 13 Gyr 26,500 Lyr (About the age of our universe.) QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Globular Cluster M12 QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. CMD Age: ~11 Gyrs old (11 billion) Distance: 5,000 parsecs (equivalent to 16,300 light years) M5 Edgar Navarro Isochrone fitted on top of a CMD (ColorMagnitude Diagram) diagram Distance: ~11,000 pc = ~35,860 ly This distance is about 2.7 million billion times the diameter of the earth. 3 Color image of M5 Globular Cluster Age: ~ 15 Billion years old M92 Distance: 31700, LY Age: 17 Gyr Summary •Globular Clusters + Telescopes •CCDs + Data Reduction •Stellar Evolution of Low Mass Stars •Isochrones and CMD Diagrams •Individual Galaxies Acknowledgements University of California Observatories - Lick Observatories, Elinor Gates The CfAO Kathy, John and Gene Emily and Laura Cosmos Staff Vay and Daisy … And thanks to all the stars …