Galaxy and Universe midterm #1 Flashcards

1
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What percentage is the radiative zone

A

71%

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2
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What percentage is the convection zone

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29%

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3
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What kind of star is the sun

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G2

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4
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What is radiative transfer

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emission and absorption of Gamma-ray photons, repeatedly. slowly degrading to lower energy photons which works their way up to the surface

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5
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What is convection transport

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hot cells become buoyant and rise, cells cool and fall

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6
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how many types of Neutrinos are there

A

3

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7
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Helioseismology

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sun vibrates or rings in very complicated patterns

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8
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What part of the sun do we see

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The photosphere

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9
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What temperature is the photosphere

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5800K

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10
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What is the average temperature of the chromosphere

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10,000K

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11
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When is the Corona visible

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During a solar eclipse or using a coronagraph

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12
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What is the average temperature of the Corona

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1 to 2 million K

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13
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What is Solar activity

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Effects on Magnetic Fields of charged particles which must move along lines of magnetic field

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14
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Coronal Mass Ejection (CME’s)

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occurs in coronal holes and is mass loss gives rise to solar wind

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15
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Umbra

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Dark part of sunspot about 2000K cooler than suns surface

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16
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penumbra

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outer of sunspot can be 1000k cooler than suns surface

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17
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What produces sun spots

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Magnetic field

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18
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Maunder Minimum

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1645-1715 no sunspots and extremely cold winters on earth

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19
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Prominences

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ejections of mass along magnetic lines

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20
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Flares

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violent eruptions temperature up to 20 million K intense X-Rays and Gamma-Rays

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21
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Spectral Sequence

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OBAFGKM

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22
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1st Step of proton-proton chain

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2 Hydrogen fuse makes a neutrino, positron and 2H (Deuterium) repeats twice

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23
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2nd step of proton-proton chain

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Deuterium (2H) and 1H fuse and make 3He and gives off a gamma-ray repeats twice

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24
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3rd step of Proton-proton chain

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2 3He fuse and throws out 4He but also gives 2 Hydrogens overall loss of 0.7 of original mass

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25
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Radial Velocity

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present only if the star is moving toward or away from observer

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26
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Tangential Velocity (Proper Motion)

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only perpendicular to the line of sight

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27
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space velocity

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Radial Velocity and tangential velocity work together to make this

28
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Composition of the sun

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74.5% Hydrogen, 23.7% Helium 1.8% metals

29
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Luminosity

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depends on R2 and T4

30
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Stellar masses

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most important property of stars

31
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Binary Stars

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means for finding masses. more massive star has smaller orbit less massive has a larger orbit

32
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visual binary

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two stars slowly orbiting about their centre of mass. can get masses of the two stars

33
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Spectroscopic binary

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seen as only a single point of light. but in spectrum 2 sets of absorption lines. Can’t get mass directly

34
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Eclipsing binary

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orbit is almost edge-on. see one star eclipse the other. give radius and temperature of each star

35
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Masses

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vary from 0.075M (M stars) to 100 (rare O stars) even 250M (very rare) 0.08M minimum mass able to ignite nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium

36
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Vertical axis of H-R Diagram

A

luminosity

37
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Horizontal axis of H-R Diagram

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Temperature, spectral type or color index B-V

38
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Stars in upper right corner of H-R diagram

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cool, very luminous large (super giants)

39
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stars in lower left corner of H-R diagram

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very hot, but faint very small (white dwarfs)

40
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stars in the upper left corner of H-R diagram

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very hot and luminous massive O stars

41
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Stars in the lower right corner of H-R diagram

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cool and small, low mass red dwarfs

42
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The main sequence H-R diagram

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all stars which hydrogen is being fused into helium

43
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classes Ia and Ib

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supergiants

44
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classes II stars

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bright giants

45
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Classes III stars

A

giants

46
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class IV stars

A

sub giants

47
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class V stars

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dwarfs (main sequence)

48
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What is the average sun spot cycle

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11 years

49
Q

What is the temperature of the core of the sun around?

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15 million kelvin

50
Q

Detection of Neutrinos

A

predicted rate by standard model of the sun. Neutrinos have very little mass and travel at almost the speed of light

51
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Neutrinos

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are very un-reactive and leave the sun in 2 seconds and takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth

52
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What is the depth of the photo sphere

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around 400 km

53
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Magnitude system

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smaller magnitudes represent brighter stars and larger magnitudes represent dimmer stars

54
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Apparent magnitude

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brightness as a star as it appears in the sky

55
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Absolute magnitude

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Can be measured by apparent magnitude with distance. also referred to as luminosity

56
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colour index

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B-V. Blue stars are negative at about -0.4 and red stars are positive at about +2.0

57
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Surface temperature

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The hotter the surface of a star the more blue it is the cooler the more red colour

58
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pulsating variable stars

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RR lyrae and cepheids

59
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Cepheids

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light curve gives the period of the star.

60
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period luminosity relation

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transforms period into luminosity which is compared to the stars apparent brightness giving the distance to the cepheid and the cluster in which the cepheid is located

61
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cepheid periods

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about 3 to 50 days and luminosity from 1000 to 10 000L they can be seen as far as 60 million light years

62
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RR Lyrae

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Have shorter periods and lower luminosities than cepheid

63
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Trigonometric Parallax

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fundamental basis of distance measurement. using baseline of diamater of Earth orbit to measure distance of a star

64
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Parallax

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angle stars appear to move using Radius of earth orbit as the baseline

65
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Parsec

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1 parsec is 3.26 light years

66
Q

Gaia

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satellite that will get distances to 30 000 light years for 1.7 billion stars. will reach the center of galaxy