The document discusses the properties of stars as revealed by their spectra and position on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. It describes how stellar spectra can provide information about surface temperature and chemical composition. The H-R diagram plots stars based on luminosity and temperature, revealing distinct regions for main sequence stars, red giants, supergiants, and white dwarfs. Main sequence stars make up about 90% of stars and follow a mass-luminosity relationship where more massive stars are more luminous.
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History of magnitude scales; brightness, luminosity, and Power of a star; Stefan-Boltzmann Law; Stellar Parallax; and Wien's Displacement Law of blackbody radiation.
Intro to astrophysics nis grade 11 by mr marty, visible brightness = apparent...Michael Marty
History of magnitude scales; brightness, luminosity, and Power of a star; Stefan-Boltzmann Law; Stellar Parallax; and Wien's Displacement Law of blackbody radiation.
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2. Stellar Spectra
There is a lot of information hiding in
individual stellar spectra besides color! We
can also learn much about the chemical
composition of stars by investigating the
spectral lines that show up in the spectra.
3. “spectral types”
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863, Dover Delaware
She developed the widely
adopted classification scheme in
1910.
Strength of Hydrogen Balmer
(to n=2) Lines along with the
appearance of other chemical line
features
This is a surface temperature
scale based on spectral lines
features.
5. O B A F G K M
Early Types Late Types
Hot Cool
Bluish Reddish
6. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram:
Ejmar Hertzsprung (1873-1967) – Copenhagen –
Began his career as a Chemical Engineer. While
working and independently at the same time…
Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957) – Princeton –
Student then professor.
A graph that separates the effects of temperature
and surface area on stellar luminosities.
The HR Diagram is much like the same thing as
producing a graph of people’s height vs. weight.
7. What does the luminosity of a star
depend on?
Temperature (proportional to T4
)
Size (proportional to R2
)
Full blown formula? L=4πR2
σT4
11. Main Sequence
Extends from the hot, bright, bluish stars in
the upper left to cool, dim, reddish stars in the
lower right.
Size (Radius) of the stars: R~R (or slightly
bigger/smaller) ~90% of the stars in space.
12.
13. Red Giants
Cool, luminous stars. They are very luminous
because of their large size.
Size R~100R but they are only about
0.9% of the stars by number.
16. Where is the missing 9%?
White Dwarfs:
HOT but faint stars.
The surface temperatures of these stars are
very hot, but since they are so small they are
not very luminous.
Size R~(1/100)R ~R⊕ but they are only
about 0.9% of the stars by number.
17.
18. Spica B1 ~20,000 K 13 M
M.S.
Bluegiant
Sun G2 ~5,800 K 1 M
Main
Sequence
Betelguese M2 ~ 3,000 K 14 M
Red
Supergiant
Sirius B A0 ~18,500 K 1 M
White
Dwarf
Stellar Information: Some Example Stars
Name
Spectral
Type
Temp (K) Mass Kind?
19. Caution!
Do not confuse the size of an object with the
mass of an object. Just because an object is
large in dimension does not necessarily mean
it is also large in mass. For example, you can
have a forty foot tall by three foot across
marshmallow that looks “large,” but that
does not mass as much as that of a “small”
football sized hunk of lead.
20. Mass Ranges of Main Sequence Stars
Most Massive Stars ~ 55-100(?) times more
massive than the Sun (very rare)
Least Massive Stars ~ 0.1-0.08 times the
mass of the Sun. (very common)
This pattern stretches from the higher mass
O,Bs to lower mass K,Ms.
21. Mass-Luminosity Relationship
The Main Sequence also exhibits a “Mass-
Luminosity Relationship.” Simply, a star’s
location on the main sequence depends on its
mass. The more luminosity a star has the
larger its mass. The lower the star’s mass the
smaller its luminosity. But this is true only on
the main sequence.
24. Examples
Suppose the mass of a star is 4 M then
L = (4)3.5
= (4) × (4) × (4) × (4)0.5
= 128 times
more luminous than Sun.
L = 128 L
Suppose the luminosity of a star is 5 L then 5
= (M)3.5
M=(5)-3.5
= 1.6 times more mass
than Sun.
M = 1.6 M
25. Density ranges of Stars
Sun ~ 1.0 grams/cm3
(The same density of
water!)
Giants ~ 0.01 grams/cm3
0.1 grams/cm3
Supergiants ~ 0.000001 grams/cm3
(That is
less than the density of air!)
White Dwarfs ~ 10,000,000 grams/cm3
(1
sugar-cubed size of white dwarf material
would weigh nearly 20 tons!)