ASTR 1020 – March 7 Homework 4 due today . Homework 5 due Thursday Second mid-term exam next Tuesday March 14 Next Observatory Opportunity Tonight at 7:30 . Website http://casa.colorado.edu/~wcash/APS1020/APS1020.html

SN1987A First naked eye supernova since 1604. Discovered by Ian Shelton. Feb 23, 1987 UT 23.316 Showed hydrogen escaping at 30,000km/s In Large Magellanic Cloud Tiny galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Huge international response of the astronomy community.

Progenitor Star that exploded was tracked down. Not terribly prominent. SK-69 202 B3 Supergiant m=12.4 M=-7.8 T=16,000K, R= 40R Distance 55,000pc – actually outside Milky Way.

Stellar History Burned H 10,000,000 years He 1,000,000 C 300 Ne 5months O 6 Si 2 days POW!!!!

Rings HST image of SN1987A a few years after the event. Center is dim 3 Bright rings Illuminated by the flash Hourglass shape again Means there was mass loss prior to the explosion

Impending Collision Blast wave is about to hit the ring.

Big Rings 30 Light Years With this geometry there is only a few light months delay.

Neutrino Astronomy Ground Level Fill mineshaft with water Put photo detectors around the inside

Neutrino Going Through Water (scattering) light produced by secondary interactions n

Super Kamiokande

Detection of SN1987A Kamiokande II Japan 12 events 15s IMB Ohio 8 events 5.6s Mont Blanc neutrino detector saw a marginal signal 4.7 hours earlier. Real??? In 1987A we detected the formation of a new neutron star!

Pulsars Neutrons Stars considered unobservable Forgot the effect of magnetic fields When a magnetic spins it creates electric fields Electric fields create accelerated electrons Accelerated electrons create strong radio signals Pulsar is a spinning, magnetized neutron star

Intense Magnetic Field Field not necessarily aligned with spin axis Particles get thrown out along the polar axes (cannot cross field lines) Beam radio signal along magnetic axis too.

From Above Every time beam sweeps by we see a pulse

Lighthouse Analogy Some of the Cosmic Rays that reach Earth could have been created in Pulsars

Pulse Trains Listen to the Pulsars: PSR B0329+54 1.4Hz Vela Pulsar 11Hz

Center of the Crab Nebula Chandra (X-rays) and HST (Visible)

Pulsar Power Energy Source is the Rotation As Pulsar emits, rotation slows As pulsar slows, it becomes less luminous Rapidly fade out Period Glitches or Starquakes Time

The Binary Pulsar Pulses get closer on approaching side of orbit (Doppler) Can map out orbit Two neutron stars spiraling toward each other. Will merge into black hole in about 200,000 years Friction that causes the inward spiral caused by Gravity Waves First confirmation of Einstein’s prediction Period Time

An X-ray Pulsar Hercules X-1 Discovered in 1971 Pulses every 1.24 seconds in the x-ray Eclipses every 1.7 days due to binary orbit Turns off every 35 days due to accretion disk wobble The Rosetta Stone of X-ray Astronomy Proved the bright x-ray sources were mass transfer binaries with a neutron star. There are about 100 of these “Classical X-ray Binaries” in the Milky Way

X-ray Bursters A Neutron Star Nova Intensity Time Every few hours the x-ray source will “burst” for 30 seconds Explanation: Helium accumulates on surface of the neutron star in binary Periodically it explosively burns Nuclear release insufficient to blow it out into space Collapses back and cools A Neutron Star Nova

Black Holes YES. Are there any Black Holes? Just 20 years ago, the answer was “probably”. The term didn’t exist until 1969

What Happens when a neutron star exceeds its Chandrasekhar Limit? Must Collapse No known force powerful enough to halt the collapse Result: Black Hole

Things that don’t happen Collapse to Singularity Winks out of universe Explodes by some new force Einstein’s prediction wasn’t a “sure thing”

Formation Neutron Star Collapses Now it’s inside event horizon and can never be seen again.

A Newtonian Black Hole Energy Falling To Surface Kinetic Energy OR if v=c

Schwarzschild Radius Two errors cancel. This is the radius of the “Event Horizon” The event horizon is a true singularity in space-time. It is a place where time and space cease to exist.

Geometry of Black Hole Can you boost the signal? No, that doesn’t help. Space Curves in on itself There’s no path out!

Curved Space

Rubber Sheet Analogy

Properties - Size The radius of a black hole is 3km per solar mass There is no limit on size or mass. Note: Volume rises as the cube of the mass. Implies the larger the black hole gets, the lower is its density. A sphere of water the size of Saturn’s orbit would be a black hole!

Properties – Escape Velocity No way. Not even light can escape. No signal can escape No particle Nothing

Properties – Orbital Period Material orbiting a black hole will have milli-second periods

Properties - Basic Mass (Schwarzschild Black Hole) Electric Charge (doesn’t happen) Angular Momentum (Kerr Black Hole) No “Surface” Features No Magnetic Fields No Pulsing “No Hair”

Jump on In You won’t make it, but it would be quite a ride!

Properties – Energy Emitted Energy Released from accretion about 0.1mc2

Time Dilation Now it gets weird! Time does not run at the same rate everywhere in the universe. Twins are not always the same age. Clocks run a little bit faster in Colorado than in Washington DC. Folks in DC are actually a little slower than us. About one part in a trillion. That’s a millisecond over a lifetime.

Time Dilation Some event takes dt∞ out in free space. Same event takes place at radius r from center of a black hole. Now view it from free space. Takes dt instead. Longer. It looks like things are moving slower. If you are near the black hole, the rest of the universe appears to be moving faster.

Time Dilation As r approaches Rs dt gets longer and longer. When r reaches the event horizon, time stops. We know how to make a time machine with a forward switch only! Just fly to a black hole and orbit above the surface. But you can fall in really fast as viewed from outside.

A “frozen star” If time stops above the surface, it can’t go in. How does the hole form? Is the material still stuck in temporal limbo just above the surface? What’s inside? If nothing can get out, then how can gravity?

Hawking Radiation The vacuum makes pairs of electrons and positrons that pop into existence and then annihilate without any net effect. Above a black hole, one can get sucked in. The other annihilates above the surface to cause radiation. Since its close to the surface, the light gets redshifted escaping, but it carries energy with it!

Temperature Hawking derived that the temperature of a black hole is thermal. Energy for the radiation comes from the mass of the hole. The black hole shrinks with time. That’s a really long time unless the black hole is tiny. A 1kg black hole would last only 10-16s.

Artist’s impression of Cyg X-1 (NASA) 6M0 BH orbiting an O9 star. 2000pc away in Cygnus