The Life Cycles of Stars
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Your Questions first1. Are we ever going to visit an Observatory?
The Ochard Hill Obvservatory (http://www.astro.umass.edu/~rdubois/Observatory/index.htm)
is open every Thursday night, weather conditions permitting.
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2. What is your research about?
I study nearby (distances larger than 3,000,000 ly) galaxies. In particular, I study the events that produced their stellar populations. And how these events evolved with cosmic time.
The Antennae galaxy (Arp 244) is a galaxy that is forming new stars at a torrid pace. It is located about 45 Mpc ~150 million ly away.
I use a combination of space and ground telescopes
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SINGS (Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey)
Cambridge Rob Kennicutt (PI)STScI Daniela Calzetti (Deputy PI), Claus Leitherer, Michael Regan, Martin MeyerCaltech/IPAC/SSC
Lee Armus, Brent Buckalew, George Helou, Tom Jarrett, Kartik Sheth, Eric Murphy (Yale)
Arizona Chad Engelbracht, Karl Gordon, Moire Prescott, George Rieke, Marcia Rieke, JD Smith Arizona State Sangeeta MalhotraBucknell
Michele ThornleyHawaii
Lisa KewleyMPIA
Fabian Walter, John Cannon,Helene Roussel
NASA Ames David Hollenbach
Princeton Bruce Draine
WyomingDanny Dale
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NGC 4594Optical
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NGC 45948 m
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H, R, 8m FUV, H, 24mM51, 8.2 Mpc
GALEX + ground + Spitzer
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NGC 628(M74)
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3. Why does the theory of relativity not apply to light in vacuum?
The fundaments of the theory of relativity is that the speed of light (or any electromagnetic wave) is always the same, whatever the reference frame you use. The reference frame must be at rest or in uniform motion.
There have been many experiments to test this, and it appears to hold true to the extent scientists can establish.
One important consequence is the dilation of time, and the shortening of distances for `rockets’ travelling close to the speed of light (nothing with mass>0 can travel *at the speed of light*).
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4. How are distances between galaxies and between galaxy clusters calculated?
This is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy: how distances are calculated. For distant objects, the `Hubble Flow’ relation provides accurate estimates: v = Ho d (Ho = 71 km/s/Mpc)
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For closer objects (closer than about 100 Mpc), local gravitational perturbations to the Hubble Flow render that relation less powerful. `Standard candles’ are often used (e.g., Cepheids, supernovae, etc.) together with other methods (e.g., surface brightness fluctuations, etc.)
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5. What is the Chandrasekhar limit?
It is the maximum limit for which a non-rotating white dwarf (a dying star supported by electron’s repulsion forces) can exist.
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Astronomy Picture of the DayOct 1st, 2007:An optical image of the Small Magellanic Cloud (the 4th closest galaxy to our Milky Way) located at 210,000 ly = 64,000 pc = 64 kpc.
Two MW Globular Clusters, NGC362 and 47 Tucanae, can also be seen.