Chapter 5 Light: The Cosmic Messenger
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Chapter 5Light: The Cosmic Messenger
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5.1 Basic Properties of Light and Matter
Our goals for learning:• What is light?• What is matter?• How do light and matter interact?
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What is light?
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Light is an electromagnetic wave.
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Anatomy of a Wave
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Wavelength and Frequency
wavelength frequency = speed of light = constant
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Particles of Light
• Particles of light are called photons.• Each photon has a wavelength and a
frequency.• The energy of a photon depends on its
frequency.
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Wavelength, Frequency, and Energy
f = c= wavelength, f = frequencyc = 3.00 108 m/s = speed of light
E = h f = photon energyh = 6.626 10−34 joule s = photon energy
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Thought Question
The higher the photon energy,• the longer its wavelength.• the shorter its wavelength.• Energy is independent of wavelength.
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Thought Question
The higher the photon energy,• the longer its wavelength.• the shorter its wavelength.• Energy is independent of wavelength.
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What is matter?
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Atomic Terminology
• Atomic Number = # of protons in nucleus • Atomic Mass Number = # of protons + neutrons
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Atomic Terminology • Isotope: same # of protons but different # of
neutrons (4He, 3He)
• Molecules: consist of two or more atoms (H2O, CO2)
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How do light and matter interact?
• Emission• Absorption• Transmission:
— Transparent objects transmit light.— Opaque objects block (absorb) light.
• Reflection or scattering
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Reflection and Scattering
Mirror reflects light in a particular direction.
Movie screen scatters light in all directions.
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Interactions of Light with Matter
Interactions between light and matter determine the appearance of everything around us.
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Thought Question
Why is a rose red?• The rose absorbs red light.• The rose transmits red light.• The rose emits red light.• The rose reflects red light.
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Thought Question
Why is a rose red?• The rose absorbs red light.• The rose transmits red light.• The rose emits red light.• The rose reflects red light.
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What have we learned?• What is light?
— Light is a form of energy.— Light comes in many colors that combine to form
white light.— Light is an electromagnetic wave that also comes in
individual “pieces” called photos. Each photo has a precise wavelength, frequency, and energy.
— Forms of light are radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X rays, and gamma rays.
• What is matter?— Ordinary matter is made of atoms, which are made
of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
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What have we learned?
• How does light interact with matter?—Matter can emit light, absorb light, transmit
light, and reflect (or scatter) light.—Interactions between light and matter
determine the appearance of everything we see.
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5.2 Learning from Light
Our goals for learning:• What are the three basic types of spectra?• How does light tell us what things are made
of?• How does light tell us the temperatures of
planets and stars?• How does light tell us the speed of a distant
object?
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What are the three basic types of spectra?
Continuous Spectrum
Emission Line SpectrumAbsorption Line Spectrum
Spectra of astrophysical objects are usually combinations of these three basic types.
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Introduction to Spectroscopy
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Three Types of Spectra
Illustrating Kirchhof's Laws
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Continuous Spectrum
• The spectrum of a common (incandescent) light bulb spans all visible wavelengths, without interruption.
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Emission Line Spectrum
• A thin or low-density cloud of gas emits light only at specific wavelengths that depend on its composition and temperature, producing a spectrum with bright emission lines.
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Absorption Line Spectrum
• A cloud of gas between us and a light bulb can absorb light of specific wavelengths, leaving dark absorption lines in the spectrum.
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How does light tell us what things are made of?
Spectrum of the Sun
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Chemical Fingerprints• Each type of atom
has a unique set of energy levels.
• Each transition corresponds to a unique photon energy, frequency, and wavelength.
Energy levels of hydrogen
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Chemical Fingerprints• Downward
transitions produce a unique pattern of emission lines.
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Production of Emission Lines
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Chemical Fingerprints• Because those
atoms can absorb photons with those same energies, upward transitions produce a pattern of absorption lines at the same wavelengths.
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Production of Absorption Lines
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Production of Emission Lines
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Chemical Fingerprints
• Each type of atom has a unique spectral fingerprint.
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Composition of a Mystery Gas
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Chemical Fingerprints
• Observing the fingerprints in a spectrum tells us which kinds of atoms are present.
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Example: Solar Spectrum
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Thought Question Which letter(s) labels absorption lines?
A B C D E
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Thought Question Which letter(s) labels absorption lines?
A B C D E
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Thought Question
A B C D E
Which letter(s) labels the peak (greatest intensity) of infrared light?
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A B C D E
Thought QuestionWhich letter(s) labels the peak (greatest intensity) of infrared light?
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Thought Question Which letter(s) labels emission lines?
A B C D E
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Thought Question Which letter(s) labels emission lines?
A B C D E
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How does light tell us the temperatures of planets and stars?
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Thermal Radiation
• Nearly all large or dense objects emit thermal radiation, including stars, planets, and you.
• An object’s thermal radiation spectrum depends on only one property: its temperature.
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Properties of Thermal Radiation1. Hotter objects emit more light at all frequencies per
unit area.2. Hotter objects emit photons with a higher average
energy.
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Wien’s Law
Wien’s Laws
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Thought Question
Which is hotter?• A blue star• A red star• A planet that emits only infrared light
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Thought Question
Which is hotter?• A blue star• A red star• A planet that emits only infrared light
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Thought QuestionWhy don’t we glow in the dark?• People do not emit any kind of light.• People only emit light that is invisible to our
eyes.• People are too small to emit enough light for us
to see. • People do not contain enough radioactive
material.
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Thought QuestionWhy don’t we glow in the dark?• People do not emit any kind of light.• People only emit light that is invisible to our
eyes.• People are too small to emit enough light for us
to see. • People do not contain enough radioactive
material.
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Interpreting an Actual Spectrum
• By carefully studying the features in a spectrum, we can learn a great deal about the object that created it.
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What is this object?
Reflected Sunlight: Continuous spectrum of visible light is like the Sun’s except that some of the blue light has been absorbed—object must look red
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What is this object?
Thermal Radiation: Infrared spectrum peaks at a wavelength corresponding to a temperature of 225 K
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What is this object?
Carbon Dioxide: Absorption lines are the fingerprint of CO2 in the atmosphere
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What is this object?
Ultraviolet Emission Lines: Indicate a hot upper atmosphere
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What is this object?
Mars!
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How does light tell us the speed of a distant object?
The Doppler Effect
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The Doppler Effect
Hearing the Doppler Effect as a Car Passes
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Explaining the Doppler Effect
Understanding the Cause of the Doppler Effect
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Same for light
The Doppler Effect for Visible Light
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Measuring the Shift
• We generally measure the Doppler effect from shifts in the wavelengths of spectral lines.
Stationary
Moving Away
Away Faster
Moving Toward
Toward Faster
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The amount of blue or red shift tells us an object’s speed toward or away
from us:
The Doppler Shift of an Emission-Line Spectrum
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Doppler shift tells us ONLY about the part of an object’s motion toward or away from us.
How a Star's Motion Causes the Doppler Effect
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Thought Question
• It is moving away from me.• It is moving toward me.• It has unusually long spectral lines.
I measure a line in the lab at 500.7 nm. The same line in a star has wavelength 502.8 nm. What can I say about this star?
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Thought Question
• It is moving away from me.• It is moving toward me.• It has unusually long spectral lines.
I measure a line in the lab at 500.7 nm. The same line in a star has wavelength 502.8 nm. What can I say about this star?
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Measuring Redshift
The Doppler Shift of an Emission-Line Spectrum
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Measuring Redshift
Doppler Shift of Absorption Lines
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Measuring Velocity
Determining the Velocity of a Gas Cloud
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Measuring Velocity
Determining the Velocity of a Cold Cloud of Hydrogen Gas
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What have we learned?• What are the three basic types of spectra?
—Continuous spectrum, emission line spectrum, absorption line spectrum
• How does light tell us what things are made of?—Each atom has a unique fingerprint.—We can determine which atoms something is
made of by looking for their fingerprints in the spectrum.
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What have we learned?• How does light tell us the temperatures of
planets and stars?—Nearly all large or dense objects emit a
continuous spectrum that depends on temperature.
—The spectrum of that thermal radiation tells us the object’s temperature.
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What have we learned?
• How does light tell us the speed of a distant object?—The Doppler effect tells us how fast an object is
moving toward or away from us. • Blueshift: objects moving toward us• Redshift: objects moving away from us
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5.3 Collecting Light with Telescopes
Our goals for learning:• How do telescopes help us learn about the
universe?• Why do we put telescopes into space?• How is technology revolutionizing
astronomy?
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How do telescopes help us learn about the universe?
• Telescopes collect more light than our eyes light-collecting area
• Telescopes can see more detail than our eyes angular resolution
• Telescopes/instruments can detect light that is invisible to our eyes (e.g., infrared, ultraviolet)
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Bigger is better
1. Larger light-collecting area
2. Better angular resolution
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Bigger is better
Light Collecting Area of a Reflector
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Angular Resolution• The minimum
angular separation that the telescope can distinguish
Angular Resolution Explained using Approaching Car Lights
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Angular resolution: smaller is better
Effect of Mirror Size on Angular Resolution
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Basic Telescope Design• Refracting: lenses
Refracting telescope Yerkes 1-m refractor
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Basic Telescope Design• Reflecting: mirrors• Most research telescopes
today are reflecting
Reflecting telescope Gemini North 8-m
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Keck I and Keck IIMauna Kea, Hawaii
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii
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Different designs for different wavelengths of light
Radio telescope (Arecibo, Puerto Rico)
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X-ray telescope: “grazing incidence” optics
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Want to buy your own telescope?
• Buy binoculars first (e.g., 7 35) — you get much more for the same money.
• Ignore magnification (sales pitch!)• Notice: aperture size, optical quality,
portability• Consumer research: Astronomy, Sky &
Telescope, Mercury magazines; Astronomy clubs.
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Why do we put telescopes into space?
It is NOT because they are closer to the stars!
Recall our 1-to-10 billion scale: • Sun size of grapefruit• Earth size of a tip of a ball
point pen,15 m from Sun• Nearest stars 4,000 km
away• Hubble orbit
microscopically above tip of a ball-point-pen-size Earth
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Observing problems due to Earth’s atmosphere
1. Light Pollution
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Star viewed with ground-based telescope
2. Turbulence causes twinkling blurs images.
View from Hubble Space Telescope
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3. Atmosphere absorbs most of EM spectrum, including all UV and X ray and most infrared.
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Telescopes in space solve all 3 problems.• Location/technology can help overcome light pollution and turbulence.
• Nothing short of going to space can solve the problem of atmospheric absorption of light.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
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Adaptive optics• Rapid changes in mirror shape compensate for
atmospheric turbulence.
How is technology revolutionizing astronomy?
Without adaptive optics With adaptive optics
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Interferometry• This technique allows two or more small telescopes to
work together to obtain the angular resolution of a larger telescope.
Very Large Array (VLA), New Mexico
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The Moon would be a great spot for an observatory (but at what price?).
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What have we learned?• How do telescopes help us learn about the
universe?—We can see fainter objects and more detail
than we can see by eye. Specialized telescopes allow us to learn more than we could from visible light alone.
• Why do we put telescopes in space?—They are above Earth’s atmosphere and
therefore not subject to light pollution, atmospheric distortion, or atmospheric absorption of light.
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What have we learned?• How is technology revolutionizing
astronomy?—Technology greatly expands the capabilities
of telescopes.—Adaptive optics can overcome the distorting
effects of Earth’s atmosphere.—Interferometry allows us to link many
telescopes so that they act like a much larger telescope.