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Dr. Caitlin Casey
February 15, 2019
Investigating Our Cosmic
Origins
Hot Science - Cool Talk # 117
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Investigating our Cosmic Origins
Prof. Caitlin M Casey
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Astronomy & McDonald Observatory
The story of three groundbreaking measurements of the Universe’s scale and our place within it
@astrocaits
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Light is our primary tool in astronomy.
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Ryan Smith
Astronomy: the Oldest Science
Nebra Sky Disk — Germany
1600BCE
Maya Astronomy — Mexico
c. 250-900 CE
accurate accounting of astronomical calendar
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Ryan Smith
Astronomy: the Oldest Science
Babylonian Tablet describing
Halley’s comet observation
164 BCE
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Ryan Smith
Astronomy: the Oldest Science
Antikythera Mechanism — Greece
100-200 BCE
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Ryan Smith
Astronomy: the Oldest Science
Su Song’s map of southern
celestial pole — China
1100s CE
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Ryan Smith
Astronomy: the Oldest Science
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Turning the static, flat sky into the story of our cosmic origins.Three stories from three centuries.
Scale of the Solar System
1
Mystery of the Spiral Nebulae
2
A Universe no one predicted
3
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Scale of the Solar System1
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The planets orbit the Sun and not the Earth.
Copernicus
(early 1500s)
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The planets’ orbits follow a distinct pattern.The length of a planet’s year squared was found to be equal to
its relative distance from the Sun compared to Earth.
Copernicus
(early 1500s)
Johannes Kepler
(early 1600s)
Length of the year gives planets’ relative distance from the sun.
mercury
venus
earth
mars
(jupiter)(saturn, uranus, neptune off-screen)
distance planets
travel in 2 months
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The scale of the Universe was unknown, rooted in our lack of perspective on the solar system.
historical estimates of the
distance to the Sun
distance
(earth radii)estimated by
Archimedes
3rd century BCE10,000
380-1,520Aristarchus
3rd century BCE
Hipparchus
2nd century BCE490
Posidonius
1st century BCE10,000
Ptolemy 1,210
L
Dsun
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The scale of the Universe was unknown, rooted in our lack of perspective on the solar system.
historical estimates on
the distance to the sun
earth radiiestimated by
Archimedes
3rd century BCE10,000
380-1,520Aristarchus
3rd century BCE
Hipparchus
2nd century BCE490
Posidonius
1st century BCE10,000
Ptolemy 1,210
Modern Astronomy 23,455
Jerome Lalande (1771) 24,000
Christiaan Huygens (1659) 24,000
Geometry of Venus
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Sun
Transit of Venus (like an eclipse)
Venus
Venus’ orbit
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View from Earth
Not to scale!
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Transit
pathway
from two
spots on
Earth
Transit of
Mercury
happens in
Nov 2019!
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nearby star
(these stars are
much further away)position of nearby
star against the
night sky
Stellar Parallax: unlocking the distances to the stars
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nearby star
(these stars are
much further away)
Stellar Parallax: unlocking the distances to the stars
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nearby star
(these stars are
much further away)
Stellar Parallax: unlocking the distances to the stars
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nearby star
(these stars are
much further away)
Stellar Parallax: unlocking the distances to the stars
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Stellar Parallax: unlocking the distances to the stars
nearby star
(these stars are
much further away)
1 A.U.
Dstar
The more a star “wiggles” on the sky,
the closer it is to Earth.
our eyes give us depth perception due to parallax!
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Stars sorted by temperatureHOT COLD
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Stars were decoded: their lifecycle understood.
Stars show chemical signatures of many elements found on earth…
Larger stars burn much brighter and hotter and die young…
Stars are born together and migrate from their birthplace as
they live…
Edward Pickering and the Harvard “Computers”
1913
Meticulously cataloged every star in the night sky visible
through a pair of binoculars.
"We are probably nearing the limit
of all we can know about
astronomy.” -1888
“Flight by machines heavier than
air is unpractical and insignificant, if
not utterly impossible.” -1902
Simon Newcomb,President & Founder of the
American Astronomical Society
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Annie Jump Cannon
developed our stellar
classification scheme, also
a prominent suffragist,
member of deaf
community.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
found a unique set of stars that
pulsated and were of special use
to measure intergalactic
distances, also a member of
deaf community.
Cecilia Payne
inferred the true composition of stars as
primarily hydrogen and helium, first
woman to earn a PhD in astronomy from
Harvard (Radcliffe).
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Annie Jump Cannon
developed our stellar
classification scheme, also
a prominent suffragist,
member of deaf
community.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
found a unique set of stars that
pulsated, and that the pulsation
period scales directly to
brightness, also a member of
deaf community.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
inferred the true composition of stars as
primarily hydrogen and helium, first
woman to earn a PhD in astronomy from
Harvard (Radcliffe).
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Mystery of the Spiral Nebulae2
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Not everything in the sky is a star! Figuring out the rest was puzzling.
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The Great Debate of 1920
Heber Curtis Harlow Shapley
milky way galaxy
~30,000 light years across
sun near
the center
milky way galaxy (the whole universe)
~300,000 light years across
sun far out from the center
Thought that the spiral nebulae were stars
forming inside of the galaxy.
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Measuring distances beyond parallax: standard candles
60 W
3 feet away
60 W
10 feet away
60 W
30 feet away
Bright
Moderately
Bright
Faint
Measure this “B”
(with a telescope)Know what this
should be “L”
Distance to the
light source can be
inferred.
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Annie Jump Cannon with
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Cepheid Variables established as
the best “standard candle”
nearby.
Measure period and apparent
brightness, get distance.Period of Pulsation (days)
1 3 10 30 100
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Measuring distances beyond parallax: standard candles
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The Scale of the Universe comes into focus
1920s: Edwin Hubble uses Leavitt’s
standard candles to show that spiral
“nebulae” are much more distant than
previously imagined:
10’s — 1000’s of times more
distant than the farthest part of our Milky
Way.
An independent survey of the
spiral nebulae suggested
something odd about their
motion…
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An independent survey of the
spiral nebulae suggested
something odd about their
motion…
Measuring the motion of objects in the sky: towards us or away from us?
The Doppler effect is audible with cars traveling toward/away from us.
Redder/bluer than normal light is used for astronomical objects!
Blue light! Towards us! Red light! Away from us!
Dopple
r V
elo
city
Distance
Known as “Hubble’s Law.”
Vesto Slipher
Redshifted
Emitted
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The mind-boggling implications of Hubble’s Law
Why is everything receding away from the Milky Way Galaxy?
Are we at the center of the universe?
Milky Way
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The mind-boggling implications of Hubble’s Law
Why is everything receding away from the Milky Way Galaxy?
Are we at the center of the universe?
Milky Way
Consider the viewpoint from another galaxy
From this perspective,
all galaxies also appear
to be moving away,
similar to what we see
from the Milky Way.
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The mind-boggling implications of Hubble’s Law
Why is everything receding away from the Milky Way Galaxy?
Are we at the center of the universe?
Consider the viewpoint from another galaxy
Milky Way From this perspective,
all galaxies also appear
to be moving away,
similar to what we see
from the Milky Way.
The same holds true from all perspectives.
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The Universe is EXPANDING.
EXPANDING.
EXPANDING.
Not favored by prominent astronomers of the era: Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, Hermann Bondi…
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Einstein’s “Greatest Blunder”
If you rewind this process, everything was contained in a point ~14 billion years ago….The Big Bang!
cosmic time
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niv
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A Universe no one predicted3
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Hubble diagram (1929)
The Project of the 20th Century:going as far as possible!
A brighter standard candle needed…
White Dwarf Supernovae (Type Ia)Emit more than energy than an entire galaxy
over the span of a ~day, can be seen halfway
across the observable Universe.
Distance (millions of light years)
300 600 900 1200 1500 1800 2100
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The Sun’s light
takes ~8 minutes
to reach Earth.
Reflected light
from Satrun takes
~1 hour.
Light from the
nearest star
outside of the solar
system takes 4.3
years.
Light from the
Andromeda galaxy takes
2 million years (longer
than humans have been
around).
Light from nearby galaxies
used to infer cosmic
expansion has taken several
10s-100s of millions of years
to reach us (think dinosaurs).
More distant
galaxies?
Millions to
billions of
years…
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Supernova Refsdal (so distant it happened 9.4 billion years ago, before the solar system existed.)
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Distance
Dop
ple
r V
elo
city
Maybe the Universe was different in the distant past?
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Distance
Dop
ple
r V
elo
city
Maybe the Universe was different in the distant past?
?
is the expansion slowing
down with time?is the slope of Hubble’s Law getting shallower?
cosmic time
siz
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f th
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niv
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e
now
Big
Bang
Big
Crunch?
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Distance (millions of light years)
Dopple
r V
elo
city [
km
/s]
3x103
3x104
1.5x105
120 480 1200 3000 7500 19000 48000
Modern Hubble’s
Law
Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess
The leaders of these teams won the 2011
Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.
The Project of the 20th Century:going as far as possible!
The Universe used to expand
at a slower rate, and the
expansion is SPEEDING UP.
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Gravity pulls in…
Dark Energy pushes out?cosmic time
siz
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f th
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niv
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now
Big
Bang
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What is the last frontier?
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The scales of the Universe are daunting, yet we endevour to understand it and be a part of it.
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Thank you.(and don’t forget to look up!)