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Angular Size & Parallax
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• Fig. 1
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Appearance and position of pin-hole protractor
• Figure 2
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The pattern for pin-hole protractor
• Fig. 3
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Fold on dashed lines
Cut along solid black line to make a strip. Fold on dashed.
Cut object template and “Paper Mate Sharpwriter” holder from part of an 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet of paper as shown here.
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Fig. 5 lower. Assembled ang. Size object and parallax target
• Tape pencil to middle of 10 cm wide object.
• Make object which holds pencil 4 cm high.
• Dashed line divides triangle symmetrically.
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• Example: d=115 cm angular size= 6o. Phy.size th.=115cm(6o/57.3o) = 12 cmActual size =13 cm
=100(13-12)/13=8%
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• Aristarchus example• Thought Sun distance 840x diameter Earth• About 0.5o angular size• Physical size =840(0.5/57.3)= 7xdiameter Earth. => Earth orbits Sun, Was
ignored.Modern distance ≈ 12000 diameter Determined by parallax
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• Aristarchus’ ideas were rejected. Why?
• Common sense AND failure to observe stars’ parallax.
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Parallax used to get distances of solar system objects and stars.
• Fig. 6 Geometry of parallax experiment set-up
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Layout for parallax observation versus theory
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Layout for parallax observation versus theory
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Viewing parallax target with pinhole protractor
• Nearby pencil relative to distant star along dashed line.
• From each of two baseline points 10 cm from “Sun.”
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• Figure 9-Protractor views of nearby star (red) vs distant star (blue).
• View of angular scale as seen through protractor.• Lower example: p = (50-24)/2= 13o.• Upper: p= (25+25)/2= 25o.
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• Lower example previous page: p= 13o. R= 10 cm• d = 57.3 o (10/13 o) = 44.1 cm• Actual d = 43.3 cm• % error=100(44.1-43.1)/43.3 ≈ 2%
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Finding the Distance of our Sun)
• Recall Copernicus found relative distances of planets in solar system wrt Earth-Sun 1 AU.
• Measure parallax of Earth-Sun, Earth-Planets etc
• Observe from one side of Earth to other
• 93 million miles=150 million km.
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The Long Quest for Stellar Parallax
• Not until 1800’s.
• German astronomer Karl Bessel
• First accurate measurement of parallax of star 61 Cygni in 1838.
• Tiny, p = 0.3 seconds of arc. One arc sec= 1/3600 o
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Distance pc=1/p parallax in arc sec1 arc sec = 1/3600 degree
1 pc=200,000 AU=3.26 LY. 1 LY = 6trillion miles
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Even the nearest stars are amazingly far away.
• Nearest star parallax,
• p ~0.7725 arc sec
• 1/0.7725=1.3 pc away, about four light years travel time.
• > 200,000 times Earth-Sun distance
• The double star, Alpha & Proxima Centaurus.
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Example calculation of distance with parallax.
• A star’s Π = 0.5 sec of arc.
• Distance in parsec = 1/Π in arc sec.
• Distance = 1/0.5 = 2 parsecs
= 6.52 light years or about 400,000 AU
= 39 trillion miles.
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Progress in Measuring Parallax
• Limited by atmosphere “seeing.” and instrument.
• Bessel could measure distances to ~8 pc, ~25 ly, only a few neighboring stars.
• 1989 Hipparchus satellite, to 0.001 arc sec; d=1000pc= 3000 ly.
• Still only 3% of our Galaxy.
• 2011 Gaia space probe, will cover our whole Galaxy.
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