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Newton - what is light?

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Light is particles, like bullets or grains of sand

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Why are Prue’s glasses pink?

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The glasses reflect pink light

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Passing light through a prism causes light of a different color to ____ at different angles, creating a rainbow!

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refract

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Light behaves as a

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particle and wave

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_____ represents the wavelength of a photon

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Color

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blue light

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400nm

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green light

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550nm

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red light

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650nm

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light is an ___________ wave

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electromagnetic

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Speed

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the rate at which the peaks of a wave move

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Frequency

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number of peaks per second that pass by

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Speed of light

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wavelength × frequency

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Do all waves need a medium in which to travel?

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Yes

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Wiggling a charge creates

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electromagnetic radiation: light!

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Bluer photons have

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higher energy, hotter

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What kind of detector would be most efficient for observing a 15,000 K star?

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ultraviolet

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Why don’t you glow in the dark?

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People only emit light with wavelengths our eyes cannot detect

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At _____, you generate mostly infrared light that your eyes cannot see

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300k

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Say you see a feature in a spectrum at

656.3 nm. What are you seeing evidence of?

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H (Hydrogen)

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Hot, opaque core of star produces the

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continuous spectrum

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Cool, low-density atmosphere produces the

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absorption lines

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Is it possible to know if the red supergiant star Betelgeuse has more iron than the Sun?

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Yes

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How much iron do you think Betelgeuse has

compared to the Sun?

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More

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What happens to the position of the lines of hydrogen if you heat up a star?

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They stay the same

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What happens to the position of the lines of hydrogen if the star moves towards you?
They all move to the blue
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Doppler Effect
changes the wavelength of a source in motion
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51 Pegasi B
“hot Jupiter,” a gas giant planet orbiting very close to its star
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What is the minimum amount of time an alien would need to monitor the Sun to find the Earth with the radial-velocity method?
1 year
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Biggest doppler shift
smallest distance
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Light Curve
derived from a time-lapse movie of how the brightness of an object changes with time
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As viewed from Earth, will Venus ever transit in front of the Sun?
Yes
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Kepler 10-b
discovered in 2011, was the first confirmed terrestrial (rocky) planet outside our Solar System
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Depth =
((radius of the planet)/(radius of the star))^2
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Why do astronomers want to look at as many stars as possible with space missions like Kepler or TESS?
Transits need special alignment, so are rare to detect
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Kepler
mission aimed at measuring the fraction of Sun-like stars with Earth-like planets.
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Kepler 16b
the first circumbinary planet - two sunsets
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estimating radius: starquakes
The larger the star’s radius, the longer the period of the pulsations.
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estimating radius: luminosity
Amount of energy a star radiates
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Apparent Brightness
Amount of starlight that reaches Earth
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How would the apparent brightness of Alpha Centauri change if it were the same size but 3 times further away?
1/9 as bright
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Stellar parallax
allows us to measure the distance to stars.
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How would the parallax of Star B, closer to Earth, compare to the parallax of Star A
Star B has a greater parallax
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Luminosity depends only on a star’s
radius and temperature
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A star’s intrinsic brightness is sensitive to
T^4
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How to measure star's radius:
1) Measure its distance (parallax) 2) Measure its apparent brightness to work out ( Count how many photons we get compared to other stars) its luminosity 3) Measure its temperature (Measure how blue or red the star is)
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What do we learn from the transit method?
The planet’s orbital period, the planet's radius, the planet’s orbital inclination
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Would you see transits if i = 0°?
No (orbits on plane so it never is moving towards Earth)
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What will happen to the transit if i = 89°?
The shape will always change
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Would you detect radial-velocity changes if i = 0°?
No
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What do we learn from the Doppler method?
Planet's orbital period, planet's eccentricity, planet's minimum mass
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Kepler-10b transits its host star every
20.2 hour
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Kepler 10b was detected with the
radial velocity method and transit method
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What causes the dips in the Earth’s spectrum?
Molecules
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Can we directly take a spectrum of an exoplanet at any given time?
No, need a transit because it is very bright
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Visible light
400-700 nm
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Light travels through space at a speed that does not exceed
300,000 km/s
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Stars much hotter than the Sun give off most light in the
ultraviolet
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At 300k
you generate mostly infrared light that your eyes cannot see
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Electrons in atoms
are restricted to certain energy levels (quantized)
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How electrons in atoms emit photons
An electron is excited to an upper energy level with energy E3. It drops to a lower energy level with energy E2. A photon carries away the difference in energy, E3 – E2
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Kepler mission
stared at 150,000 stars for 4 years - transits are rare (we need to see the shadow), so need a big sample. on average every star has at least 1 planet orbiting <300 days.
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Kepler findings
15 ± 13% of Sun-like stars host potentially habitable planets, stars with systems of at least 6 planets, exoplanets orbiting a star at least 10 billion years old, first Tatooine-like planet with two sunsets (orbiting 2 stars)
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From transit method, we get ____, from Doppler method, we get ______
radius, mass
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Search for molecules like _______ or ______ as biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres
O2, Methane

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