Astronomy 210
Lecture 12, Sept. 20
Fall 2010
Lecture Notes:
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Continuous Radiation and Blackbody
Spectra
: Light as a Thermometer
blackbody
spectra
one canine
example
;
others
;
IR world gallery
Wien
's law
spectrum
of the Sun
Orion
colors
starlight spread out:
objective prism
images of the
Hyades
star cluster
Stefan-Boltzmann law
Doppler Effect: Light as a Speedometer
animation
Telescopes: Reading the Cosmic Code
Light collection:
HST primary mirror
;
Keck primary mirror
Telescope power (
HST
,
Keck
)
the accursed atmosphere:
twinke twinkle
Light detection: CCD for (
Hubble
,
Pan-STARRS
,
LSST
)
Invisible astronomy
Radio (
CARMA
[under construction],
VLA
,
Arecibo
)
X-ray (
Chandra
,
XMM-Newton
)
Infrared (
Spitzer
,
Sofia
,
James Webb Space Telescope [under construction]
)
Lecture Archive
Brian Fields
Last modified: Sun Sep 19 21:54:35 CDT 2010