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Astro 101Fall 2013Lecture 9
Stars (continued) – Stellar evolution
T. Howard
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Spectral Classes
Strange lettering scheme is a historical accident.
Spectral Class Surface Temperature Examples O
BAFGKM
30,000 K20,000 K10,000 K7000 K6000 K4000 K3000 K
RigelVega, Sirius
Sun
Betelgeuse
Further subdivision: BO - B9, GO - G9, etc. GO hotter than G9. Sun is a G2.
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Main Sequence
White Dwarfs
Red Giants
Red Supergiants
Increasing Mass, Radius
on Main Sequence
The Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) Diagram
Sun
A star’s position in the H-R diagram depends on its mass and evolutionary state.
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H-R Diagram of Well-known StarsH-R Diagram of Nearby Stars
Note lines of constant radius!
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Stellar Evolution:Evolution off the Main Sequence
Main Sequence Lifetimes
Most massive (O and B stars): millions of years
Stars like the Sun (G stars): billions of years
Low mass stars (K and M stars): a trillion years!
While on Main Sequence, stellar core has H -> He fusion, by p-p chain in stars like Sun or less massive. In more massive stars, “CNO cycle” becomes more important.
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Evolution of a Low-Mass Star(< 8 Msun , focus on 1 Msun case)
- All H converted to He in core.
- Core too cool for He burning. Contracts. Heats up.
Red Giant
- Tremendous energy produced. Star must expand.
- Star now a "Red Giant". Diameter ~ 1 AU!
- Phase lasts ~ 109 years for 1 MSun star.
- Example: Arcturus
- H burns in hot, dense shell around core: "H-shell burning phase".
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Red Giant Star on H-R Diagram
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Eventually: Core Helium Fusion
- Core shrinks and heats up to 108 K, helium can now burn into carbon.
"Triple-alpha process"
4He + 4He -> 8Be + energy8Be + 4He -> 12C + energy
- Core very dense. Fusion first occurs in a runaway process: "the helium flash". Energy from fusion goes into re-expanding and cooling the core. Takes only a few seconds! This slows fusion, so star gets dimmer again.
- Then stable He -> C burning. Still have H -> He shell burning surrounding it.
- Now star on "Horizontal Branch" of H-R diagram. Lasts ~108 years for 1 MSun star.
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Core fusionHe -> C
Shell fusionH -> He
Horizontal branch star structureMore massive less massive
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Helium Runs out in Core- - All He -> C. Not hot
enough- for C fusion.
- - Core shrinks and heats up, as
- does H-burning shell.
- Get new helium burning shell (inside H burning shell).
Red Supergiant
- High rate of burning, star expands, luminosity way up.
- Called ''Red Supergiant'' (or Asymptotic Giant Branch) phase.
- Only ~106 years for 1 MSun star.
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"Planetary Nebulae"
- Core continues to contract. Never hot enough for C fusion.
- He shell dense, fusion becomes unstable => “He shell flashes”.
- Eventually, shells thrown off star altogether! 0.1 - 0.2 MSun ejected.
- Shells appear as a nebula around star, called “Planetary Nebula” (awful, historical name, nothing to do with planets).
- Whole star pulsates more and more violently.
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White Dwarfs
- Dead core of low-mass star after Planetary Nebula thrown off.
- Mass: few tenths of a MSun
- Radius: about REarth - - Density: 106 g/cm3! (a cubic
cm of it would weigh a ton on Earth).
- - Composition: C, O.
- White dwarfs slowly cool to oblivion. No fusion.
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Star Clusters
Comparing with theory, can easily determine cluster age from H-R diagram.
Open Cluster
Globular Cluster
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Following the evolution of a cluster on the H-R diagram
100 LSun
Temperature
Lum
inos
ity
LSun
LSun
LSun
LSun
LSun
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Globular clusters formed 12-14 billion years ago. Useful info for studying the history of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Globular Cluster M80 and composite H-R diagram for similar-age clusters.
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Schematic Picture of Cluster Evolution
Time 0. Cluster looks blue
Time: few million years.Cluster redder
Time: 10 billion years.Cluster looks red
Massive, hot, bright, blue, short-lived stars
Low-mass, cool, red, dim, long-lived stars
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Evolution of Stars > 12 MSun
Higher mass stars fuse heavier elements.
Result is "onion" structure with many shells of fusion-produced elements. Heaviest element made is iron. Strong winds.
Eventual state of > 12 MSun starLow mass stars never gotpast this structure:
They evolve more rapidly. Example: 20 MSun star lives "only" ~107 years.
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Fusion Reactions and Stellar Mass
In stars like the Sun or less massive, H -> Hemost efficient through proton-proton chain.
In higher mass stars, "CNO cycle" more efficient. Same net result: 4 protons -> He nucleusCarbon just a catalyst.
Need Tcenter > 16 million K for CNO cycle to be more efficient.
(mass) ->
Sun
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Endpoints of Massive Stars
• Stars with mass >~ 8 Msun Supernovae
• Massive stellar explosions
• Remnant core collapses (usually much less than 50% mass)
• In most cases, core neutron star
• Electrons and protons “crushed together” creating neutrons
• Many neutrinos emitted these escape the star completely
• Neutron stars often end up forming pulsars
• What about even more massive stars?
• Mass >~ 25 Msun collapse to a Black Hole
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Example supernova remnant—Crab nebula in Taurus
Supernovae – extremely violent stellar explosions
• Several types & subtypes (called type “I”, “Ia”, “II”, etc.)
• Different types arise from pre-explosion stellar conditions
• We can use the changein brightnessover time todistinguish them
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Two major classifications of Supernovae
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Tycho’s supernova
Supernova remnant in Vela
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Light Curves of Supernovae Types
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Neutron Stars
If star has mass 12-25 MSun , remnant of supernova expected to be a tightly packed ball of neutrons.
Diameter: 10 km only!
Mass: 1.4 - 3(?) MSun
Density: 1014 g / cm3 !
A neutron star over the Sandias?
Please read about observable neutron stars: pulsars.
Rotation rate: few to many times per second!!!
Magnetic field: 1010 x typical bar magnet!
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Pulsars discovered 1967 byJocelyn Bell Burnell & AnthonyHewish.
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Pulsars – “Lighthouse” model
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Crab nebula in X-rays (Chandra)
Off “Blinking” of the Crab pulsar
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A brief digression -- Relativity
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1905: Special Theory of Relativity
1915: General Theory of Relativity
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Special Relativity covers situations where velocities may be very high, but frames of reference are not accelerated
General Relativity as it says, the more general case: acceleration between frames of reference is included
Relativity stars with assigning “frames of reference” (coordinates) tothe Observer and the Event (or Thing) in question
x
y
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A fundamental postulate of relativity:
The speed of light, c, in free (empty) space is a universal constant.It does not get added to or subtracted from the frame of reference.
c = (approx.) 3 x 108 meters/sec
Note: the speed of light can be slower in solid, gaseous, or liquid media(glass, water, air), but never faster than c.
This effect actually accounts for the bending of light rays in lenses,when entering or leaving a body of water, etc.
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Black Holes and General Relativity
The Equivalence Principle
Here’s a series of thought experiments and arguments:
1) Imagine you are far from any source of gravity, in free space, weightless. If you shine a light or throw a ball, it will move in a straight line.
General Relativity: Einstein's (1915) description of gravity (extension of Newton's). It begins with:
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2. If you are in freefall, you are also weightless. Einstein says these are equivalent. So in freefall, light and ball also travel in straight lines.
3. Now imagine two people in freefall on Earth, passing a ball back and forth. From their perspective, they pass it in a straight line. From a stationary perspective, it follows a curved path. So will a flashlight beam, but curvature of light path small because light is fast (but not infinitely so).
The different perspectives are called frames of reference.
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4. Gravity and acceleration are equivalent. An apple falling in Earth's gravity is the same as one falling in an elevator accelerating upwards, in free space.
5. All effects you would observe by being in an accelerated frame of reference you would also observe when under the influence of gravity.
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Some Consequences of General Relativity:
1. Mass “warps” space i.e., the amount of mass introducesa “curvature” to what would otherwise be perfectly linear(Euclidean) space.
2. This curvature of space is a different way of thinking aboutgravity. It works, and explains a lot of things.
3. The curvature of space causes things to move in curved lines. Even rays of light!
“Matter tells space how to curve. Space tells matter how to move.”
(Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, 1973)
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The “rubber sheet” analogy.
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Curvature of light Observed! In 1919 eclipse.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Einstein
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Gravitational lensing. The gravity of a foreground cluster of galaxies distorts the images of background galaxies into arc shapes.
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Other consequences of General Relativity:
Gravitational Waves – caused by massive violent events (e.g., coalescence of binary pulsars, formation of Bl. Holes)
– cause asymmetric warping of space
The “ripples” move at speed c thru the universe.
Might be detectable (but very weak).
We are searching for them now. USA: LIGO ProjectElsewhere: Virgo, GEO, others
Proposed Space-based GW Observatory: LISA
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LIGO Facility at Hanford, WA (2nd facility is at Livingston, LA)
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Proposed LISA mission (NASA-ESA)
This is just a schematic diagram. The spacecraft will be~ 5 million km apart.
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2. Gravitational Redshift
Consider accelerating elevator in free space (no gravity).
time zero, speed=0
later, speed > 0light received when elevator receding at some speed.
light emitted when elevator at rest.
Received light has longer wavelength because of Doppler Shift ("redshift"). Gravity must have same effect! Verified in Pound-Rebka experiment.
3. Gravitational Time Dilation
Direct consequence of the redshift. Observers disagree on rate of time passage, depending on strength of gravity they’re in.
Other consequences of General Relativity
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Escape Velocity
Velocity needed to escape an object’s gravitational pull.
vesc = 2GM R
Earth's surface: vesc = 11 km/sec.
If Earth shrunk to R=1 cm, then vesc = c, the speed of light! Then nothing, including light, could escape Earth.
This special radius, for a particular object, is called the Schwarzschild Radius, RS. RS M.
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Black Holes
If core with about 3 MSun or more collapses, not even neutron pressure can stop it (total mass of star about 25 MSun ?).
Core collapses to a point, a "singularity".
Gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
RS for a 3 MSun object is 9 km.
Event horizon: imaginary sphere around object, with radius RS .
Event horizonRS
Anything crossing the event horizon, including light, is trapped
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Saturn-massblack hole
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Like a rubber sheet, but in three dimensions, curvature dictates how all objects, including light, move when close to a mass.
Black hole achieves this by severely curving space. According to General Relativity, all masses curve space. Gravity and space curvature are equivalent.
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Curvature at event horizon is so great that space “folds in on itself”.
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Effects around Black Holes
1) Enormous tidal forces.
2) Gravitational redshift. Example, blue light emitted just outside event horizon may appear red to distant observer.
3) Time dilation. Clock just outside event horizon appears to run slow to a distant observer. At event horizon, clock appears to stop.
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Do Black Holes Really Exist? Good Candidate: Cygnus X-1
- Binary system: 30 MSun star with unseen companion.
- Binary orbit => companion > 7 MSun.
- X-rays => million degree gas falling into black hole.
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1. White Dwarf If initial star mass < 8-12 Msun .
2. Neutron Star If initial mass > 12 MSun and < 25 ? MSun .
3. Black Hole If initial mass > 25 ? MSun .
Final States of a Star (simplified)