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Galaxies in CollisionGalaxies in Collision...the Evolution of Galaxies......the Evolution of Galaxies...
...the Formation of the Elements......the Formation of the Elements......and how all of it may be necessary for......and how all of it may be necessary for...
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Prof. Robert Knop, Vanderbilt UniversityAtlanta Astronomy ClubAAS Shapley Lecture
2006 May 19 UH 88" Image
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A History of the UniverseA History of the Universe10-42 10-32 10-22
10201025
10-12
1015
10-1
1010
109
105
t (s)
z
Inflation,Grand Unification
T 1013 GeV 108 GeV 1 TeV 100 eV10 MeV
ElectroweakUnification
Protons/NeutronsForm
Elements Form,Cosmic Neutrinos
t
zT
105 104 103 100 10 0
10 kyr 440 kyr 17 Myr 480 Myr 13.7 Gyr30 yr
Matter Densityovertakes
Radiation Density
Universe Becomes TransparentNuclei Capture Electrons
Cosmic Microwave Background
First Stars YouAreHere
End of ClusterFormation
2.7 K27 K270 K2700 K
Sun FormsDark Ages
Here be Dragons
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Nuclear Alchemy
Produced by the Big Bang:
• Hydrogen• Helium• Duterium• Lithim (a wee bit)
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All Other Elements:
Created inside stars via Nuclear Fusion
SUN : Currently fusing Hydrogen into Helium
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Image: CSE, SSL, UCB
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Messier 57:
TheRing
Nebula
(soon to be )White Dwarf:
Carbon/Oxygen
The fate of low-mass stars(like the Sun)
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Image: Mike Guidry
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Supernova 1987ASupernova 1987A
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1,000 years later:
(Messier 1, the Crab Nebula)
15,000 years later
(The Cygnus Loop)
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Obligatory Bullet Points!!
• The Big Bang made only Hydrogen & Helium
• All other elements are created in stars via Fusion
• Supernovae make the most massive elements (including iron)
• The atoms in you have been inside stars, and have been through supernovae!!! (Yipers)
Er, wasn't this talk about interacting galaxies??
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Sizes and distances of stars
The Sun A tennis ball (2 ¼" across)
Earth The head of a pin (1/50" across), 6m away
Jupiter A small marble (¼” across), 30m away
Alpha Centauri A tennis ball in New York (1000mi away)
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Milky Way Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
Galaxies are much closer together compared to their size than stars within a galaxy are compared to their size
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Stronger Gravity Weaker Gravity
Water canflow due to the
gravity difference
Moon
High Tide HereLow Tide Here
Tidal ForcesTidal Forces...result from a difference in gravity from one side of
an object to the other
Earth
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WeakerGravity
StrongerGravity
Tidal Tails in Interacting GalaxiesTidal Tails in Interacting Galaxies
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Simulation Data: Chris Mihos, Case Western ; Lars Hernquist, HarvardVisualization: Frank Summers, STScI
Galaxy Collision Simulation MovieGalaxy Collision Simulation Movie
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““Galaxy Crash”Galaxy Crash”
An interactive Java galaxy collision
simulator on the web that you can play with.
http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/JavaLab/GalCrashWeb/main.html
(or search for “Galaxy Crash” in Google)
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M81
M82
NGC3077
Telescope Picture Hydrogen Gas(Radio Telescope Picture)
Min Yun, NRAO
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The Eagle Nebula
Stars form from dense molecular clouds
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Messier 51 : The Whirlpool Glaxy
Image: NOAO
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The Milky Way Galaxy
All sky digital photographtaken in Chile
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The Saggitarius Dwarf Tidal Stream
Galactic CannibalismGalactic Cannibalism
Image: D. Martinez-Delgado & G. Perez
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Image: T.A.Rector and B.A.Wolpa/NOAO/AURA/NSF
Colliding Soon* with aGalaxy Near You!
(* well, in several billion years....)
Messier 31:Messier 31:The AndromedaThe Andromeda
GalaxyGalaxy
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(Image: STScI)
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NGC 3115 (S0)
M86 (E3)
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Sombrero Galaxy (Sa)M104
NGC 1302 (Sa)
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NGC 891 (Sc)
NGC 6946 (Sc)
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Sequence of decreasing merger damage?
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Galaxy Collisions and YouGalaxy Collisions and You
• Galaxies are seen running into each other!
• Galaxies make a mess out of each other when they collide: twisted shapes, long tails.
• Galaxy collisions are potentially tied to emphasizing spiral arms and galaxy evolution.
• Galaxy collisions condense gas, can trigger bursts of star formation.
• All elements heavier than Helium are made in stars... the heaviest ones in supernovae.
• How much of the star formation of the Universe happens in these "starbursts"???