Star Properties studied so far… Period Mass Eccentricity Red shift Velocity Temperature (Wiens Law) Composition – which elements and how much of each Color Age

A star with a continuous spectrum shines through a cool interstellar cloud composed primarily of hydrogen. The cloud is falling inward toward the star (and away from Earth). Which best describes the spectrum seen by an Earthbound observer? 1) blue-shifted hydrogen emission lines 2) a red-shifted hydrogen continuum 3) red-shifted hydrogen emission lines 4) red-shifted hydrogen absorption lines

Velocity = distance / time

How do we measure the velocity of a star?

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How do we measure the velocity of a star?

What do you get if your 0 Ca line in the lab at nm appears at nm in the sky? red shift = ____ Velocity = c x z, and the speed of light is 3 x 10 5 km/s So the star is receding at a speed of: V = (3 x 10 5 km/s) x __ = ______ km/s How do we measure the velocity of a star?

How do we measure the age of the universe?

Star Properties studied so far… Period Mass Eccentricity Red shift Velocity Distance Temperature (Wiens Law) Composition – which elements and how much of each Color

How do you measure the distance to a star? Use 2 measurements of a star’s exact position in the sky, taken exactly 6 months apart.

Hubble found the relationship between a galaxy's velocity (the radial component, in a straight line) away from us (v) and its distance from us (d) approaches a fairly linear one, which is known as Hubble's Law: v = H 0 x d So H 0 is the slope of that line, which he found to be 73.3 km/s/Mpc Or about 3.26 million light years

So time = 1/H. Use this graph to tell us the age of the universe? Because we know that the slope of the line in the plot is 73 km/s/Mpc, we can simply write:

Life Cyclye of a Star

We can detect the velocity of a star through the Doppler effect by 1) measuring the shift in distance of the star. 2) taking photographs six months apart. 3) applying the inverse square law of brightness. 4) measuring the shift in wavelength of a spectral line.

The light from the east limb (edge) of the Sun is blue-shifted and the light from the west limb is red-shifted. This is because 1) different kinds of atoms emit light at the opposite edges. 2) the Sun is rotating. 3) the distance from the Sun to the Earth changes. 4) the two sides of the Sun are at different temperatures.

Most of the brightest stars in the sky are 1) relatively hot main-sequence stars that are relatively close to the Sun. 2) relatively cool main-sequence stars that are relatively far from the Sun. 3) relatively cool main-sequence stars that are relatively close to the Sun. 4) giant stars and relatively hot main sequence stars.