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I?M?P?R?S on ASTROPHYSICS at LMU Munich
Astrophysics Introductory Course
Lecture given by
Ralf Bender
in collaboration with:
Chris Botzler, Andre Crusius-Watzel,Niv Drory, Georg Feulner, Armin Gabasch,
Ulrich Hopp, Claudia Maraston,Michael Matthias, Jan Snigula, Daniel Thomas
Fall 2001
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Outline of the IMPRS Introductory Course
Introduction and overview (telescopes, instruments, slide show...)
Matter and radiation
Stars: global properties and spectra
Stellar structure, evolution and final stages
Interstellar medium, star formation and exo-planets
Galaxies: phenomenology
Stellar dynamics
Stellar populations, chemical evolution and star formation
Dark Matter, Gravitational lensing
Groups and clusters of galaxies
Active galactic nuclei and massive black holes
Cosmological standard model
Formation of structure in the universe
Galaxy formation and evolution
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0.1 The limiting factors
Half absorption altitude in the earth atmosphere
→ Dominant windows in the atmosphere are in the visible and radio frequency regions
→ X-Rays and UV are very strongly absorbed, γ rays and IR strongly absorbed
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Brightness of the nightsky at high galactic and ecliptic latitude.
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The brightness of the nightsky is the main limitation for the observability of very faint ob-jects. In the blue and optical, observations with satellites and ground-based telescopeshave similar backgrounds. In the infrared, observations in the orbit are orders of magnitudemore efficient, because of strong OH emission lines and the IR-radiation from the warmterrestrial atmosphere. In the radio, a main limitation on the ground is radio pollution byhuman technology (radio, tv etc). To overcome the extraterrestrial backgrounds like thezodiac light, faint stars and IR cirrus (from dust in the Milky Way) would require to bring asatellite observatory outside of the solar system or even the Galactic plane, respectively.
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Absorption by gas and dust in the Milky Way
E(B-V) is a measure of redding and absorption. E.g., E(B-V) of 0.35 implies that any objectoutside the Milky Way is dimmed by about a factor 2.5 at 5500A. Burstein and Heilesderived these maps mostly from the column density of neutral hydrogen which is assumedto be related to the column density of dust as well.
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0.2 Telescopes and Instruments
Ground based telescopes (examples)
→ Radio [cm to sub-mm]: Effelsberg 100m, VLA, VLBI, IRAM; ALMA ...→ Optical (350 nm to ∼ 10 µm): 8m-class: Keck, VLT, HET, LBT, Gemini ...
(and many small 2m to 4m–class telescopes are still active) ...→ γ-rays: HEGRA (≥ 0.1 TeV, Cerenkov-Telescopes) ...→ ν-telescopes: GALLEX, Kamiokande, Borexino, Amanda ...→ LISA, LIGO gravitational wave detectors under developement
Satellite observatories (examples)
→ radio: COBE, MAP, PLANK, [Boomerang] ...→ infrared: IRAS, ISO, [Sofia]; Herschel, NGST ...→ UV-optical: HST, IUE, HUT, Hipparcos ...→ X-rays: ROSAT, XMM-Newton, Chandra ...→ γ-rays: Compton-GRO, Integral ...
For more information check e.g. the ESA, NASA or MPE, ESO, MPA, USM homepages.
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Planck CMB satellite (ESA), Herschel far infrared and submm satel-lite (ESA), Calar Alto 3.5m telescope (MPIA), Hubble Space Telescope(NASA), Very Large Array radio interferometer (NRAO), Very LargeTelescope (ESO), X-ray stellite ROSAT (MPE, DLR, NASA), AtacamaLarge Millimeter Array (2006, ESO, NRAO).
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VLT instruments: imaging, spectroscopy and interferometry from the near UV to mid IR.
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FORS and ISAAC at the VLT, imagers and spectrographs for the optical and infrared.
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Left: The Charge Coupled Device in FORS. CCDs are the detectors in near UV-opticalastronomy with quantum efficiencies up to 90% and sizes up to 4000 by 4000 pixels.
Right: EGRET (Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope) is a spark chamber aboardthe Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. It is designed to cover the energy range from 20MeV to about 30 GeV using a multilevel thin-plate spark-chamber system to detect gamma-rays by the electron-positron pair production process.
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Another key tool of modern astrophysics: the computer. Shown is the Hitachi SR8000 of theLeibniz Rechenzentrum Munich, one of the 3 most powerful computers in the world (2002,memory: 1500 Gigabyte, 2.2 Teraflops/s). Besides extensive simulations, the storage ofhuge data volumes from ground based and satellite observatories is extremely demanding.In the near future, connected data centers will allow to construct a virtual astrophysicalobservatory.
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0.3 Astronomy, Physics & Technology
astronomy physics & technologyKepler’s laws gravity law, Newtonian physicsspectral analysis of stars and hot gas Helium discovery, quantum mechanics of
forbidden lines in low densitiesperihel motion of mercury, light deflection bysun, binary pulsar
general relativety, gravitational waves
energy production in stars and supernovae nuclear physics, element synthesisneutron stars & white dwarfs equation of state for degenerate matter
up to nuclear densitiestelescope development optics, new polishing techniques, glas
and technical ceramics (Zerodur/Ceran)detection of faintest sources new substrates for highly efficient detec-
tors, e.g. CCDsdark matter, early universe, solar neutrinos particle physics, unknown particle
speciesdark energy, cosmological constant,quintessence
particle physics, new physics
γ-ray bursts new physics (probably not: hypernovae)image processing medical applications
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Astronomy’s contribution to physics and our concept of matter in the last 20 years:
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The Sun: L� = 3.9 1033 erg s−1, M� = 2.0 1033 g, R� = 7 105 km, T�,photosphere = 5800 K
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The Solar Corona, T = 106K, plasma physics at its best
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Solar neighbourhood stars observed by the Hipparcos satellite
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The infrared sky in the direction of Orion. The bright emission comes from dust grainsheated by starlight. The blue dots indicate the positions of the bright stars, with Betelgeuseat the upper center. The Orion Nebula is the bright yellow blob at the lower right. The greenbox indicates the field of view of the next image.
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Radio emission from cold carbonmonoxide gas in thedirection of Orion. Red and blue indicate Doppler shifts.
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Near-infraredimage (2MASS)of the OrionNebula M42,the neareastlarger H II re-gion, whereyoung stars areformed in largernumber
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The Orion Nebula in optical light, from the Hubble Space Telescope. The bar at the lowerleft is a wall of gas viewed edge-on. This gas glows because it is ionized by the four hot”Trapezium stars” just to the left of center.
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The Orion Nebula in infrared light. The bar at the lower left is less prominent, but we seea bright nebula in the upper right that is not seen in the visible image before. The orangerepresents infrared line emission from hydrogen molecules being blown away by a powerfulembedded star (see below).
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Left: a closer view of the Orion Nebula in optical light from HST. The trapezium stars areclearly visible. The blue outline shows the field of view of the infrared image. Right: Infraredimage by the NICMOS camera on the HST. We see a cluster of newborn stars buried withinthe dust cloud beneath the optical nebula.
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Close-up of the Trapezium stars, showing ”cometary globules” of gas, evidently newly form-ing planetary systems being illuminated by the bright star at the lower right.
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The insets show close-up views of ”proplyds” - protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula.The dark disks of dust are seen in silhouette against the bright glow of the Nebula.Upper left: a face-on disk with a central star like the Sun.Upper right: the central star is obscured by a thick edge-on disk.Lower left: another face-on system; the scale of our Solar System is indicated below.
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Artist’s view of the formation of a planetary system.
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Planets around other stars found by velocity variations of the star
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A diagram of the orbits of the 3 planets around Upsilon Andromedae (red dots). The dashedcircles show the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars to give the scale of the orbits.
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The Crab nebula, a remnant of a supernova which exploded in 1054.
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The globular cluster M79, one of the oldest objects known (about 14 Gyr).
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Milkyway, Sbc galaxy (all-sky projection in optical by Mellinger)
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Milkyway, Sbc galaxy, distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI, 21cm) and CO (2.6mm).
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Milkyway, Sbc-galaxy (70% sky projection in near IR (2µm), COBE satellite)
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30 Doradus in the LMC (VLT image): birth of a globular cluster (?)
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30 Doradus in the LMC: birth of a globular cluster (?)X-rays: red, Hα: green, UV: blue
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The spiral galaxyM 31 and itssatellites galaxiesM 32 (compactsmall elliptical)and NGC 205(dwarf elliptical)
plus an objectthat doesn’t be-long there butshows the scale.
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The small spiralgalaxy M 33, acompanion ofM 31, has nobulge
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Leo 1 (MV = −12), dwarf elliptical (dwarf spheroidal) companion of Milky Way
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NGC 205 (MV = −16.3), dwarf elliptical companion of M31 (NOAO)
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Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) NGC 1705, blue: bluecontinuum, green: red continuum, red: Hα (G. Meurer)
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Dwarf irregular NGC 2915 yellow: optical blue: HI
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The edge-on spiralgalaxy NGC 5907 - theMilky Way would looklike this galaxy if seenfrom outside and edgeon. However the bulgeof the Milky Way is moreprominent. (Wendelsteinthree-color-image)
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Spirals in ultraviolett (dominated by massive stars) and visual (average population),Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, Astro mission.
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The ellipticals M 84 (right) and M 86 (middle) in the Virgo cluster (NOAO).
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X-Ray Gas in Galaxy Clusters
Coma cluster (left: optical image, right: X-ray image)
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Galaxy Cluster Cl0024+1645, strong lensing reconstruction (left, courtesy S. Seitz) of HST image (right, Colless et al.); light blue = caustic structure, bold
green = critical lines of ’infinite’ amplification, squares = observed positions of multiple imaged source (A,B,C,D,E in color image), yellow crosses = predicted
position of the lensmodel, yellow circle = position of source in source plane, red crosses = mass centers used for the lens model. The caustics are obtained
by mapping the critical lines into the source plane.
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NGC 383 (= 3C31), a radio galaxy, blue: optical, red: radio (A. Bridle)
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Merging of two radio galaxies (and two black holes!), (A. Bridle)
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One of the currently most distant objects known,a quasar at redshift 5.8 (Sloan Digitial Sky Survey)
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The inner 10 pc of M31 (real color HST image. A 30 million solar mass black hole sits inthe blue cluster. The red blob of stars corresponds to the apocentre of an elliptic stellardisk around the black hole. The black hole is probably not at the center of the galaxy.
(Kormendy and Bender 1999).
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Interacting, merging and starbursting galaxies
Interacting galaxy pair. Note that spiral disks are not optically thick!
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M 82, a starburst galaxy, white/brown: stellar light and dust,red: hot expanding gas in Hα (Subaru telescope)
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Various evolutionarysteps of spiral-spiralmergers
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The Hubble DeepField (North), thedeepest availableoptical image,demonstratesthe evolutionof galaxies andshows objectsup to redshifts ofabout 5 (or 10%of the age of theuniverse)
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Cosmic Microwave Background variations as observed by WMAP satellite (2003)
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Cosmic Hierarchies
Object ρ np δρ/ρ Radius D/R Vrel. Nsmallobj.
[g cm−3] [cm−3] [km s−1]Universe 10−30 10−6 0 6 Gpc - - 109
groups/clusters 10−28 10−4 102 1 Mpc 10 500 102
galaxies 10−24 100 106 10 kpc 20 700 1011
stars 10+1 1024 1030 106 km 108 300 -neutron-stars 1014 1038 1044 101 km - - -
ρ: mass densitynp: proton number densityδρ/ρ: over density relative to mean density of the universeR: average radius of objectsD/R: average distance between objects relative to their sizeVrel.: typical relative velocity between objectsNsmaller: number of next smaller objects contained in structure
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Object length[m]
Elektron 2.8 10−15
Bohr-Radius 5.3 10−11
ISM dust 3 10−7
Blue whale 3 10+1
Comet (core) 5.5 10+3
Neutron star 1 10+4
Sun 7 10+8
Astron. Unit 1.5 1011
Lightyear 9.46 1015
1 Parsec 3.08 1016
next star 4 1016
globular cluster 4 1018
Milky Way Galaxy 8 1020
Distance M 31 2 1022
Diameter Virgo 1 1023
Distance Virgo 7 1023
Universe 1 1027
Object Mass[kg]
Elektron 9.11 10−31
Proton 1.67 10−27
Z0 1.60 10−25
Planck mass 1.67 10−27
Tyrannosaurus Rex 105
Comet 1 1013
Mountain 3 1014
Planetoid 3 1019
Earth moon 7.3 1022
Earth 6.0 1024
Jupiter 1.9 1027
Sun 2.0 1030
Globular Cluster 1 1036
Milky Way galaxy 2 1042
Coma gal.-cluster 2 1045
Universe 4 1051
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from Shapiro, Teukolsky:Black Holes,White Dwarfsand Neutron Stars
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The Big Questions (a personal selection)
Formation of stars and planets
Extrasolar planets, search and characterization
Population III
Supernovae
The cosmic recycling process (stars-gas-chemical elements)
Formation and evolution of galaxies
Cosmic star formation history
Supermassive blackholes and active nuclei
Nature of the γ-ray bursts
Nature and density of the dark matter
Formation of structure in the universe
Dark Energy and cosmological constant
Inflation and phase transitions in the early universe
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