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ASTR 113 – 003 Spring 2006 Lecture 06 March 1, 2006 Review (Ch4-5): the Foundation Galaxy (Ch 25-27) Cosmology (Ch28-39) Introduction To Modern Astronomy II Star (Ch18-24) 1.Sun, Our star (Ch18) 2.Nature of Stars (Ch19) 3.Birth of Stars (Ch20) 4.After Main Sequence (Ch21) 5.Death of Stars (Ch22) 6.Neutron Stars (Ch23) 7.Black Holes (Ch24) Extraterrestrial Life (Ch30)

Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars Chapter Twenty-Two ASTR 113 – 003 Spring 2006 Lecture 06 March 1, 2006

Guiding Questions 1.What kinds of nuclear reactions occur within a star like the Sun as it ages? 2.Where did the carbon atoms in our bodies come from? 3.What is a planetary nebula, and what does it have to do with planets? 4.What is a white dwarf star? 5.Why do high-mass stars go through more evolutionary stages than low-mass stars? 6.What happens within a high-mass star to turn it into a supernova? 7.Why was SN 1987A an unusual supernova? 8.What was learned by detecting neutrinos from SN 1987A? 9.How do white dwarf stars give rise to certain types of supernovae? 10.What vestiges are left after a supernova explosion?

Pathways of Stellar Evolution

Low-mass stars: two red-giant stages A low-mass star (< 4 Msun at main sequence, e.g., the Sun) –a red giant when shell hydrogen fusion begins –a horizontal-branch star when core helium fusion begins –an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star when the helium in the core is exhausted and shell helium fusion begins

Low-mass stars: two red-giant stages

AGB star: Structure Thermonuclear reaction in the helium fusion shell is so fast that star’s luminosity is thousands of times Lsun The size of the star is about 200 Rsun But the size of the core is only the size of the Earth

AGB star: Convection Convection occurs over a larger portion of its volume It takes heavy elements formed in the star’s interior and distributes them throughout the star AGB star is also called Carbon Star AGB star has strong stellar wind, losing mass at very high rate AGB star enriches interstellar medium with carbon, and some oxygen and nitrogen Most of carbons in our body are likely from early- generation AGB stars nearby

ASTR 113 – 003 Spring 2006 Lecture 07 March 8, 2006 Review (Ch4-5): the Foundation Galaxy (Ch 25-27) Cosmology (Ch28-39) Introduction To Modern Astronomy II Star (Ch18-24) 1.Sun, Our star (Ch18) 2.Nature of Stars (Ch19) 3.Birth of Stars (Ch20) 4.After Main Sequence (Ch21) 5.Death of Stars (Ch22) 6.Neutron Stars (Ch23) 7.Black Holes (Ch24) Extraterrestrial Life (Ch30)

Stellar Evolution: The Deaths of Stars Chapter Twenty-Two (cont.) ASTR 113 – 003 Spring 2006 Lecture 06 March 1, 2006 ASTR 113 – 003 Spring 2006 Lecture 07 March 8, 2006

AGB star  Planetary Nebula An aging AGB star gently sheds away its outer layers The expanding outer layers become Planetary Nebula, Planetary Nebula has nothing to do planets

Planetary nebulae: Creation In AGB star, helium shell continuously gains mass from surrounding hydrogen fusion shell Helium shell contracts and ignites helium flash Helium flash creates a strong thermal pulse, which ejects a shell of material into space Thermal pulse through helium flash can occur several times Eventually, the entire shell of an AGB star is shed away and becomes nebula

Planetary nebulae

Planetary Nebula expands at a speed ~20 km/s Reaches a size about 1 light year in 10, 000 year The propelling force is the radiation pressure caused by intense ultraviolet emission from the central core, acting upon dust grains in the nebula Dust grains condense out from the cooling nebula gas, because of the existence of heavy elements, such as carbon

Burned-out core becomes white dwarf In the exposed stellar core (after the shedding of the outer shell), no further nuclear reactions take place It becomes a dense sphere about the size of the Earth and is called a white dwarf It is so dense that electrons are degenerate The degenerate-electron pressure supports the star against further collapse It glows from thermal radiation; as the sphere cools, it becomes dimmer A cool white dwarf is a giant diamond made of crystallized carbon One teaspoon white dwarf matter weighs about 5.5 tons, or density 10 9 kg/m 3

White Dwarf Star The more massive a white dwarf, the stronger the gravitation, and the smaller the size Mass of White Dwarf can not exceed 1.4 Msun

Chandrasekhar Limit: 1.4 Ms The upper limit of the mass a white dwarf can have The limit is 1.4 Msun Beyond this limit, the degenerate electron pressure can no longer hold the gravitation contraction ----  more exotic objects

White Dwarf Star A, main sequence mass 3.0 Msun, white dwarf mass 1.2 Msun B, main sequence mass 1.5 Msun, white dwarf mass 0.8 Msun C, main sequence mass 0.8 Msun, white dwarf mass 0.6 Msun

High Mass Stars (>3 Msun) A low mass star (< 3 Msun) follows the evolution track of 1.Main sequence 2.Red Giant -  Horizontal Branch -  AGB star 3.Planetary Nebula 4.White Dwarf –But, a high mass star (>3 Msun) has different evolution 1.Main 2.Supergiant 3.Supernova 4.Neutron star or black hole

High-mass stars create heavy elements in their cores Unlike a low-mass star, a high mass star undergoes an extended sequence of thermonuclear reactions in its core and shells These include carbon ( 12 C) fusion, neon ( 20 Ne) fusion, oxygen ( 16 O) fusion, and silicon ( 28 Si) fusion

In the last stages of its life, a high-mass star has an iron-rich core surrounded by concentric shells hosting the various thermonuclear reactions The sequence of thermonuclear reactions stops here, because the formation of elements heavier than iron requires an input of energy rather than causing energy to be released Supergiant and its onion core

Supernova explosions Once the iron core is formed, the core contracts very rapidly (in less 1 second, from Earth size to city size) Temperature skyrockets to 5 billion Kelvin Photodisintegration: high energy photons break the iron nuclei to helium nuclei Electron combines with proton to form neutrons During the combining process, it produces neutrinos that carry energy away The core ends up as all neutron, with nuclear density (10 17 km/m 3 ) The degenerate neutron pressure suddenly halts the core contract The outer core bounce back and sends a powerful wave of pressure The pressure wave becomes a powerful shock wave as it go outwards, and expel most stellar material outward Shock wave produces a series of nuclear reaction, the only place elements heavier than iron (such as silver, gold) are produced in the universe

Supernova explosions A high-mass star dies in a violent cataclysm in which its core collapses and most of its matter is ejected into space at high speeds The luminosity of the star increases suddenly by a factor of around 10 8 during this explosion, producing a supernova The matter ejected from the supernova, moving at supersonic speeds through interstellar gases and dust, glows as a nebula called a supernova remnant

Supernova explosions

Supernova Remnants

SN1987 A: the best observed SN Occurred on Feb. 23, ,000 PC away in a huge HII region (or emission nebula) in Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

SN1987 A: the best observed SN Progenitor star: blue B3 I supergiant Could see it with naked eyes right after the explosion

SN1987 A: the best observed SN

SN 1987A: Neutrinos were detected More than 99% of the energy from such a supernova is emitted in the form of neutrinos from the collapsing core Neutrino energy Joules, 100 times as much energy as Sun has emitted in its entire history Neutrinos arrive 3 hours before the first SN light was seen The 3-hour delay is due to the propagation time of the shock wave from the core to the surface of the supergiant

Different Types of Supernovae Type 1 supernova: no hydrogen lines –Type 1a supernova: explosion of white dwarf in a closed binary system; mass accumulation exceeds the critical mass and ignites the carbon fusion at the core –Type 1b supernova: core collapse of massive star with hydrogen shell lost before –Type 1c supernova: core collapse of massive star with both hydrogen and helium shells lost before Type 2 supernova: strong hydrogen lines –core collapse of massive star with hydrogen shell largely intact

Type Ia supernovae are those produced by accreting white dwarfs in close binaries

Type Ib supernovae occur when the star has lost a substantial part of its hydrogen shell

Type Ic supernovae occur when the star has lost a substantial part of both its hydrogen shell and helium shell

Type II supernovae are created by the deaths of massive stars

Key Words asymptotic giant branch asymptotic giant branch star(AGB star) carbon fusion carbon star Cerenkov radiation Chandrasekhar limit core helium fusion dredge-up helium shell flash horizontal branch mass-radius relation neon fusion neutron capture nuclear density oxygen fusion photodisintegration planetary nebula progenitor star red-giant branch shell helium fusion silicon fusion supergiant supernova (plural supernovae) supernova remnant thermal pulse Type I supernova Type Ia supernova Type Ib supernova Type Ic supernova Type II supernova white dwarf