Topics in X-ray astronomy - Tuebingen February 2004 S.Mereghetti Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters Sandro Mereghetti INAF - IASF Milano.
Announcements No lab this week’s due to Tuesday’s observing night Homework: Chapter 5 # 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 & 9 Dark Sky Observing Night next week on Wednesday.
Lecture 5PHYS1005 – 2003/4 Lecture 5: Stars as Black-bodies Objectives - to describe: Black-body radiation Wien’s Law Stefan-Boltzmann equation Effective.
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE
Announcements
20 th century cosmology
Teaching the Physics of Climate Change
Blackbody Spectrum Remember that EMR is characterized by wavelength (frequency) Spectrum: distribution of wavelength (or frequency) of some EMR Blackbody:
April 17, 2001Lynn Cominsky - Cosmology A3501 Answer to last week’s Question How do we know that the Milky Way is at the outer edge of the Virgo cluster?
ASTR_2011 Introduction to Observational Astronomy