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Spectra and
Stars
How do colors in
a spectrum help
us understand
stars?
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We can’t go to stars and planets
to see what they are like.
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So we learn about them
by studying the light that they emit or reflect.
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Thinking about the spectra activity,
what evidence do you have that we can learn
something about stars from their light?
1. From Activity 1 about adding light…….
2. From Activity 2 about using c-spectra and colored
. filters…….
3. From Activity 3 about light from a hot gas………
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NASA: Spectroscopy in Action PLAY VIDEO
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRm0z8ggJSk
The color of light is the wavelength.
Visible light ranges in wavelength from ~400 to ~700 nanometers.
But visible light is only a small part of the
electromagnetic spectrum.
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Light is energy ……..
energy travels in waves........
waves have properties!
Waves only transfer energy without the physical movement
of material from one location to another.
Light travels through space at 300,000,000 m/s.
One property of a wave is the wavelength – the distance
between successive wave peaks.
Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves.
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Light travels as a wave in an infinite
spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.
The range of all possible
frequencies
of electromagnetic
radiation is called
the electromagnetic
spectrum.
The wavelength of an EM wave is inversely proportional to its
frequency and also to it’s energy.
The shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency and the
more energy the wave has.
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CONTINUOUS
SPECTRUM
Light is separated into its various wavelengths using a
piece of glass called a prism.
A rainbow is an example of continuous spectrum.
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Another Image that shows the experiment can be viewed at
http://astronomy.nju.edu.cn/~lixd/GA/AT4/AT404/HTML/AT40401.htm
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EMISSION
& ABSORPTION
SPECTRUM
Occur when the light coming from a gas is passed through the surfaces
of a prism or c-spectra. Depending on whether or not the gas cloud is in
front of a blackbody object, the spectrum will either be an
emission line spectrum or an absorption line spectrum.
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Different Types of Spectra
Each element has different emission lines which show the
same colors that are missing in the absorption line.
Image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visible_spectrum_of_hydrogen.jpg and Image
from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectral_lines_continous.png
Another Image that shows a comparison can be viewed at
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there-so-many-missing
Each atom of a given element
is unique and has unique properties,
including what kind of color is emitted when it’s heated.
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Hydrogen
Emission Spectrum
Absorption Spectrum
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What is the difference between Emission and Absorption Spectra?
The emission lines emit the color / wavelength.
Absorption lines absorb the same color / wavelength.
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Identifying Absorption Lines of a Star
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Sun’s Absorption Spectrum
Black lines are caused by gases on, or above, the Sun’s surface that
absorb some of the emitted light.
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The Mystery????
Some lines are not identified.
Are they produced by elements that don’t exist on Earth?
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Ultraviolet Image of the Sun
Ultraviolet
(UV) light
waves are
invisible to
the human
eye.
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http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/10_ultravioletwaves.html
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If we change
the detector,
we can ‘see’
these shorter
wavelengths.
X-ray Image of the Sun
X-ray detectors are
used by scientists
to see and record
the energy within
the corona.
Data was collected
by x-ray detectors
on satellites in orbit
around the Earth
by the Japan's
Hinode spacecraft.
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Different Types of Telescopes and Detectors
Used to study the light from planetary images and satellite imagery.
First telescope - Galileo in 1609. The eye detects visible light only.
Radio telescopes - detects the very longest wavelength of light.
Space Telescopes - detects different wavelengths, like X-ray,
ultraviolet and infrared.
Space Telescopes - operate in space to avoid the obscuring
effects of our atmosphere.
Hubble Space Telescope - Optical
Spitzer Infrared Observatory
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
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