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• Classifying galaxies is hard, and different people do it different ways• Except for nearby, we can only see bright galaxies• I will ignore dwarf spheroidal (dSph) and dwarf elliptical (dE) classifications
• Galaxies come in four broad categories, based on their appearance
• Spiral• Central roundish bulge plus disk
• Barred Spiral• Central elongated bulge plus disk
•Elliptical• Elongated bulge, no disk
• Irregular• No discernible shape
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Spiral galaxies• Pinwheel-like• Central Bulge, spiral arms• Spiral arms, etc., signs of rotation
• Young and old stars, gas, dust• 80% of large galaxies are Spirals• Classified by amount of arms
• S0 - no spiral arms• Sa, Sb, Sc, Sd - more spiral arms
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S0
Central BulgeDisk•No Spiral Arms
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SaCentral BulgeDisk•Tight spiral arms
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SbCentral BulgeDisk•Spiral arms
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ScCentral BulgeDisk•Loose spiral arms
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SdCentral BulgeDisk•Very loose spiral arms
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Barred Spirals•Like Spirals, but bulge is oblong•Central Bulge, spiral arms•Spiral arms, etc., signs of rotation
•Young and old stars, gas, dust•Milky Way is probably barred spiral SBb•Classified by amount of arms•SB0 - no spiral arms•SBa, SBb, SBc, SBd - more spiral arms
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SB0
Central BarDisk•No spiral arms
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SBa
Central BarDisk•Tight spiral arms
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SBb
Central BarDisk•Spiral arms
Milky Way?
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SBcCentral Bar
Disk•Looser spiral arms
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SBd
Central BarDisk•Very loose spiral arms
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Elliptical Galaxies
•Look like a sphere or a flattened sphere•Little gas and dust•Mostly old stars•Classified by how round they look•E0 looks circular•E7 is very elongated
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E0
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E1
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E2
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E3
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E4
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E5
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E6
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E7
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Elliptical Galaxy Shapes
•Appearance may depend on angle of view•Amount of flattening probably has to do with rotation
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Irregular Galaxies
•Classified as Irr
•Gas, dust, young and old stars•Like a galactic disk, no spirals, a mess
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E0-E1-E2-E3-E4-E5-E6-E7S0 - Sa - Sb - Sc - Sd
SB0-SBa-SBb-SBc-SBd
Hubble’s Tuning Fork
•Spirals, Barred Spirals, and Ellipticals fit together in a pattern called the Tuning fork Diagram
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What determines a galaxy’s classification?• It’s not size or mass•Rotation!•Rotation measured by Doppler shift
•Most mass is dark matter, again
To Observer
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•Disk•Bulge•Nucleus•Halo
•Globular Clusters
Spiral Galaxy Structure
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•Visible Part•Nucleus•Halo
Elliptical Galaxy Structure
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Elliptical Halos•Elliptical galaxies don’t have thick clouds, but they do have diffuse, hot gas
•These gasses emit X-rays•Gravity vs. pressure – they expand to make a giant sphere
•Amount of gravity tells us 90% of the mass of the galaxy is dark matter in the halo
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Differences - Spirals vs. Ellipticals
Can we explain these differences?
•Spirals appear to have more spin•Spirals have disks and spiral structure•Spirals have dust/gas/young stars in the disk•Ellipticals have hot gas spread out through a large halo
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The Effects of Spin•Spin causes flattening – formation of a disk•And disks naturally form spiral structure!
•Rotation prevents the gas and dust from all falling to the center
• In an elliptical galaxy, any loose gas and dust falls into the dense center•Star formation gets very fast•Lots of supernovas•Loose gas gets swept out to halo•No more star formation
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When two galaxies collide or nearly collide, they can affect each other• Mostly through gravitational interactions
• As they pass near each other, the gravityof each distorts the other• The slower they pass, the bigger the effect• If unequal in size, smaller galaxy is affected most
• Tidal heating – energy is transferred from net motion to internal motion of stars• Star motions get more randomized• Energy comes from kinetic energy of orbit – orbit loses energy and galaxies
move closer together• Over time, the two galaxies will move closer and closer with each pass• Eventually, a true collision will occur
Near Miss Collisions
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Actual Galaxy Collisions
What happens depends on relative size of the two galaxies
Big + Small:• Small galaxy is completely disrupted• Stars enter large galaxy• Over time, they get absorbed• This is currently happening to our own galaxy• Sagittarius Dwarf and Canis Major Dwarf – currently being disrupted• Virgo Stellar Stream – a dead galaxy whose stars are being absorbed
Two Equal sized galaxies:• Resultant galaxy will be irregular, initially• Based on total spin, resultant galaxy eventually settles down to spiral or
elliptical
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Colliding Galaxies
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Giant Elliptical Galaxies• Sometimes many galaxies collide and merge• If large numbers collide, spin cancels out• Giant galaxy becomes an elliptical
Giant Elliptical
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Looking Out = Looking Back• Light travels at about 0.3 pc per year• The farther away you are looking, the longer ago you are seeing
• 1 kpc 3.3 ky• 1 Mpc 3.3 My• 1 Gpc 3.3 Gyr
• You can see back almost to the beginning of the Universe!
Galaxies in the past: how do they differ?• Galaxies long ago• Smaller than modern galaxies• Irregulars are more common
• Galaxies collided a lot in the past• Many irregulars from recent collisions• Galaxies got bigger from mergers
Why?
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Galaxies Long Ago
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Long, Long Ago
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