Absolute Magnitudes between -1 and -6. Variations of between ... Runs through the entire H-R diagram. Characterized by pulsating stars with unstable envelopes ...
distance ladder: parallax, Cepheids, SuperNova Type Ia ... nearby stars with parallax (up to 1kpc) - nearby galaxies with variable stars (Cepheids) ...
The MS in History (very abridged) Henrietta Leavitt and the SMC Cepheids ... And dust: 1% of ISM mass 0.1mm. heating/cooling. catalyst for molecule formation ...
The American Association of Variable Star Observers has a database of over 10.5 ... Three classes of light-curves. Eclipsed binaries. Cepheids. RR Lyrae ...
The motion is only apparent Local structure interferes with Hubble flow Galactic Redshifts The Hubble Constant and the Age of the Universe Cepheids are the ...
... is the expected main-sequence life time of the sun? 10 million years. 100 ... all have approximately the same age! ... from a Cepheid's absolute magnitude? ...
Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance: ... The Rosetta Stone without a Distance: Hunting for Cepheids in I ZW 18 ...
The distribution of galaxies in space. The discovery that the universe is expanding ... Distances to other galaxies were measured using type I Cepheids ' ...
B star seismology. W.A. Dziembowski, Warsaw University Obsevatory ... the most important task for B star seismology. B-type pulsators: progenitors of Cepheids, ...
... distances to other galaxies and hence the size of the Universe via the Hubble relation. ... Cepheids in M31 (the Andromeda galaxy) and IC 1613 to study such ...
Look for artifacts in our solar neighborhood. Etcetera . Our new idea: Neutrino ... here, consider big picture. Guess at energy input: take deposition time ...
Galaxies and Cosmology. Key figures in relativistic cosmology. Friedman de Sitter ... Peebles Dicke. Herman Gamow Alpher. Wilson Penzias. Cosmic Background ...
Planetary Nebulae and the Extragalactic Distance Scale. Robin Ciardullo. Why Measure ... Collisional de-excitation of forbidden emission in young, dense nebulae ...
Measuring the distance to Galaxies Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variable Star The Great Distances of Space Many of the challenges in understanding the universe ...
Henrietta Swann Leavitt (1868-1921), a 'computer' at Harvard College Observatory ... Leavitt found that the period of pulsation is related to the brightness: 'A ...
Time in days. Apparent Brightness in Magnitudes. Data Table. HV 837. HV ... Absolute magnitude is what the apparent magnitude of the same star at 10 parsecs ...
Towards a 3% Geometric Distance to NGC 4258 ... The Big Picture ... X-ray absorbing layer (nH ~ 1023 cm-2) radius = 0.29 pc where disk crosses line ...
15.2 Distances of Galaxies Our Goals for Learning How do we measure the distances to galaxies? What is Hubble s Law? How do distance measurements tell ...
Periods of tens of minutes to 0.3 days. From pre- to post ... Percy et al. (1980), Rodriguez et al. (1995), Breger & Pamyatnykh (1998)... It's NOT evolution! ...
Stellar Fuel, Nuclear Energy and Elements How do stars shine? E = mc2 How did matter come into being? Big bang stellar nucleosynthesis How did different elements form?
A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System, Messier 31. By Edwin Hubble. Not So Easy Astronomy ... Stanek and Garnavich 1998 found the distance to be ~780kpc ...
Chapter 15 A Universe of Galaxies 15.1 Islands of Stars Our Goals for Learning What are the three major types of galaxies? Beyond the three main galaxy types Dwarf ...
Title: The Milky Way Author: Markus Boettcher Last modified by: Matthew Perry Created Date: 2/23/2003 4:28:17 AM Document presentation format: On-screen Show
Along with Sagittarius , it is the only dSph known to host globular clusters. ... possess mean characteristics intermediate between the two Oosterhoff groups ...
The region of the Galaxy within about 32.6 light-years of the Sun (65 light ... The Milky Way Galaxy is a giant disk of stars 160,000 light-years across and 1, ...
Nature of the Spiral Nebulae and the Great Debate. Shapley ... Summary: Shapley's MWG was too big, and his distances to the spiral nebulae too small ...
A beautiful example of Kirchoff's Laws. But first, an illustration of how m (apparent magnitude), M ... Epsilon (4.19) Zeta (3.35) Lambda(5.04) Iota (3.52) ...
Avstander i rommet Av Stein O. Wasb , Birger Andresen og Terje Bjerkg rd Innhold Avstander i rommet Solsystemet Melkeveien N re og fjerne galakser Hvorfor er ...