Line broadening: The Doppler effect When an atom moves towards a photon detector and emits radiation, the detector sees wave crest more often and detects radiation of higher…
X-ray Techniques: Overview Ron Jenkins in Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry R.A. Meyers (Ed.) pp. 13269–13288 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2000 X-RAY TECHNIQUES:…
Slide 1 Slide 2 BLACKBODY RADIATION: PLANCKS LAW Slide 3 COLOR and SPECTRAL CLASS The light emitted by stars consists of a mixture of all colors, but our eyes (and brain)…
1. Reports / http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/recent / 12 September 2013 / Page 1/ 10.1126/science.1241681 As the Sun moves through the interstellar medium the solar…
1. Gamma-ray burst from a dust-rich region with a molecular gas shortage B. Hatsukade1 , K. Ohta2 , A. Endo3 , K. Nakanishi1,4,5 , Y. Tamura6 , T. Hashimoto1 , & K. Kohno6,7…
Slide 1The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation Material between the stars – gas and dust Slide 2 Interstellar Dust -- the general obscuration and discrete dark clouds…
Slide 1 Please pick up your corrected problem set and midterm. Problem Set #4: median score = 85 Midterm Exam: median score = 72 Slide 2 Recap: The Story So Far… Monday,…
Slide 1 21cm Constraints on Reionization Benedetta Ciardi MPA T. Di Matteo (CMU), A. Ferrara (SISSA), I. Iliev (CITA), P. Madau (UCSC), A. Maselli (MPA), F. Miniati (ETH),…
Slide 1 23. The Milky Way Galaxy The Sun’s location in the Milky Way galaxy Nonvisible Milky Way galaxy observations The Milky Way has spiral arms Dark matter in the Milky…