feb. 3, 2011 ch 5b. 5.1basic properties of light and matter light: electromagnetic waves 1. velocity...
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Feb. 3, 2011 Ch 5b
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5.1 Basic Properties of Light and Matter Light: electromagnetic waves
1. Velocity (c = speed of light), wavelength and frequency (colors), energy.2. Electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, atmospheric windows
Matter: Atoms. How do light and matter interact? 5.2 Learning from Light: Origin of Starlight (some not in book)
1. How photons are produced2. Relation temperature motion of atoms 3. Blackbody Radiation (hot iron example). Wien’s Law:
hotter brighter, cooler dimmer
hotter bluer, cooler redder (max ~1/T)
4. Colors of Stars: redder are cooler, bluer are hotter5. Types of spectra (Kirchhoff’s 3 laws ): Continuous, Absorption and Emission6. Radial Velocity: Doppler effect
5.3 Telescopes: reflecting and refracting, ground, airborne, space.
Outline Ch 5 Light: The Cosmic Messenger
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Interpreting an Actual Spectrum
• By carefully studying the features in a spectrum, we can learn a great deal about the object that created it.
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What is this object?
Reflected Sunlight: Continuous spectrum of visible light is like the Sun’s except that some of the blue light has been absorbed—object must look red
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What is this object?
Thermal Radiation: Infrared spectrum peaks at a wavelength corresponding to a temperature of 225 K
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What is this object?
Carbon Dioxide: Absorption lines are the fingerprint of CO2 in the atmosphere
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What is this object?
Ultraviolet Emission Lines: Indicate a hot upper atmosphere
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What is this object?
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Radial Velocity• Approaching stars: more
energy, • Receding stars: less energy,
5.2.6 Doppler Effect
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• Approaching stars: more energy, spectral lines undergo a blue shift
• Receding stars: less energy, spectral lines undergo a red shift
/ = v/c
Radial Velocity
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How does light tell us the speed of a distant object? The Doppler Effect.
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Explaining the Doppler Effect
Understanding the Cause of the Doppler Effect
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Same for light
The Doppler Effect for Visible Light
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Measuring the Shift
• We generally measure the Doppler effect from shifts in the wavelengths of spectral lines.
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Measuring the Shift
• We generally measure the Doppler effect from shifts in the wavelengths of spectral lines.
What can you say about the radial velocity of these objects?
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The amount of blue or red shift tells us an object’s speed toward or away
from us:
The Doppler Shift of an Emission-Line Spectrum
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Doppler shift tells us ONLY about the part of an object’s motion toward or away from us.
How a Star's Motion Causes the Doppler Effect
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Question
A. It is moving away from me.
B. It is moving toward me.
C. It has unusually long spectral lines.
I measure a line in the lab at 500.7 nm. The same line in a star has wavelength 502.8 nm. What can I say about this star?
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Measuring radial
velocity in emission spectra
Determining the Velocity of a Gas Cloud
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Measuring radial
velocity in absorption
spectra
Determining the Velocity of a Cold Cloud of Hydrogen Gas
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Doppler Effect Summary
Motion toward or away from an observer causes a shift
in the observed wavelength of light:
• blueshift (shorter wavelength) motion toward you
• redshift (longer wavelength) motion away from
you
• greater shift greater speed
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What have we learned?• What types of light spectra can
we observe?
• Continuous spectrum, emission line spectrum, absorption line spectrum
• Continuous– looks like rainbow of light
• Absorption line spectrum – specific colors are missing from the rainbow
• Emission line spectrum– see bright lines only of specific colors
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What have we learned?• How does light tell us
what things are made of?• Every kind of atom, ion,
and molecule produces a unique set of spectral lines.
• How does light tell use the temperatures of planets and stars?
• We can determine temperature from the spectrum of thermal radiation
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What have we learned?• How does light tell us
the speed of a distant object?
• The Doppler effect tells us how fast an object is moving toward or away from us. – Blueshift:objects
moving toward us
– Redshift: objects moving away from us
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5.1 Basic Properties of Light and Matter Light: electromagnetic waves
1. Velocity (c = speed of light), wavelength and frequency (colors), energy.2. Electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, atmospheric windows
Matter: Atoms. How do light and matter interact? 5.2 Learning from Light: Origin of Starlight
1. How photons are produced2. Relation temperature motion of atoms 3. Blackbody Radiation (hot iron example). Wien’s Law:
hotter brighter, cooler dimmer
hotter bluer, cooler redder (max ~1/T)
4. Colors of Stars: redder are cooler, bluer are hotter5. Types of spectra (Kirchhoff’s 3 laws ): Continuous, Absorption and Emission6. Radial Velocity: Doppler effect
5.3 Telescopes: reflecting and refracting, ground, airborne, space. Remember atmospheric windows
Outline Ch 5 Light: The Cosmic Messenger
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5.3 Collecting Light with Telescopes
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5.3 Collecting Light with Telescopes
Our goals for learning:
• How do telescopes help us learn about the universe?
• Why do we put telescopes into space?
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How do telescopes help us learn about the universe?
• Telescopes collect more light than our eyes light-collecting area
• Telescopes can see more detail than our eyes angular resolution
• Telescopes/instruments can detect light that is invisible to our eyes (e.g., infrared, ultraviolet)
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Bigger is better
1. Larger light-collecting area
2. Better angular resolution
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Bigger is better
Light Collecting Area of a Reflector
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Angular Resolution• The minimum
angular separation that the telescope can distinguish
Angular Resolution Explained using Approaching Car Lights
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Angular resolution: smaller is better
Effect of Mirror Size on Angular Resolution
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Basic Telescope Design• Refracting: lenses
Refracting telescope Yerkes 1-m refractor
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Basic Telescope Design• Reflecting: mirrors• Most research telescopes
today are reflecting
Reflecting telescopeGemini North 8-m
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii
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Keck I and Keck IIMauna Kea, HI (were world’s largest until 2009)
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Gran Telescopio Canarias:
World’s Largest Telescope
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NASA’s IRTFMauna Kea, HI
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Different designs for different wavelengths of light
Radio telescope (Arecibo, Puerto Rico)
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Why do we put telescopes into space?
It is NOT because they are closer to the stars!
Recall our 1-to-10 billion scale: • Sun size of grapefruit• Earth size of a tip of a ball
point pen,15 m from Sun• Nearest stars 4,000 km
away• Hubble orbit
microscopically above tip of a ball-point-pen-size Earth
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Observing problems due to Earth’s atmosphere
1. Light Pollution
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Star viewed with ground-based telescope
2. Turbulence causes twinkling blurs images.
View from Hubble Space Telescope
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Remember: Atmosphere absorbs most of EM spectrum, including all UV and X-ray, most infrared
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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
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SOFIA Airborne!
26 April 2007, L-3 Communications, Waco Texas: SOFIA takes to the air for its first test flight after completion of modifications
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Kuiper Airborne Observatory
It began operation in 1974 and was retired in 1995.
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The Moon would be a great spot for an observatory
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What have we learned?• How do telescopes help us learn about the
universe?—We can see fainter objects and more detail
than we can see by eye. Specialized telescopes allow us to learn more than we could from visible light alone.
• Why do we put telescopes in space?—They are above Earth’s atmosphere and
therefore not subject to light pollution, atmospheric distortion, or atmospheric absorption of light.
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Light Pollution
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Want to buy your own telescope?
• Buy binoculars first (e.g., 7 35) — you get much more for the same money.
• Ignore magnification (sales pitch!)• Notice: aperture size, optical quality,
portability• Consumer research: Astronomy, Sky &
Telescope, Mercury magazines; Astronomy clubs.