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Contents
Preface
xv
Biography
xvii
Chapter
1 :
Astronomy, an Observational Science
1
1.1
Introduction
1
1.2
Galileo Galilei's proof of the Copernican theory of the solar system
1
1.3
The celestial sphere and stellar magnitudes
4
1.3.1
The constellations
4
1.3.2
Stellar magnitudes
5
1.3.3
Apparent magnitudes
5
1.3.4
Magnitude calculations
6
1.4
The celestial coordinate system
7
1.5
Precession
9
1.6
Time
11
1.6.1
Local solar time
11
1.6.2
Greenwich mean time
11
1.6.3
The equation of time
12
1.6.4
Universal time
12
1.6.5
Sidereal time
13
1.6.6
An absolute time standard
-
cosmic time
14
1.7
A second major observational triumph: the laws of planetary motion
16
1.7.1
Tycho Brahe's observations of the heavens
17
1.7.2
Johannes Kepler joins Tycho
Brahe
20
1.7.3
The laws of planetary motion
20
1.8
Measuring the astronomical unit
23
1.9
Isaac Newton and his Universal Law of Gravity
2 5
1.9.1
Derivation of Kepler's third law
30
1.10
Experimental measurements of G. the Universal constant
of gravitation
32
1.11
Gravity today: Einstein's special and general theories of relativity
З З
1.12
Conclusion
36
1.13
Questions
36
viii Contents
Chapter
2:
Our Solar System
1 -
The Sun
39
2.1
The formation of the solar system
3 9
2.2
The Sun
43
2.2.1
Overall properties of the Sun
43
2.2.2
The Sun's total energy output
45
2.2.3
Black body radiation and the sun's surface temperature
46
2.2.4
The
Fraunhofer
lines in the solar spectrum and the composition
of the sun
49
2.3
Nuclear fusion
50
2.3.1
The proton-proton cycle
5 3
2.4
The solar neutrino problem
57
2.4.1
The solar neutrino problem is solved
58
2.5
The solar atmosphere: photosphere, chromosphere and corona
59
2.5.1
Coronium
61
2.6
The solar wind
61
2.7
The sun's magnetic field and the sunspot cycle
62
2.7.1
Sunspots
62
2.7.2
The sunspot cycle
64
2.8
Prominences, flares and the interaction of the solar wind with
the earth's atmosphere
65
2.8.1
The aurora
66
2.9
Solar eclipses
67
2.9.1
Two significant solar eclipses
69
2.9.2
The Shapiro delay
71
2.10
Questions
72
Chapter
3:
Our Solar System
2 -
The Planets
75
75
77
78
79
79
80
80
81
83
83
3.1
What
і
s a
planet?
3.2
Planetary orbits
3.2.1
Orbital inclination
3.3
Planetary properties
3.3.1
Planetary masses
3.3.2
Planetary densities
3.3.3
Rotation periods
3.3.4
Planetary temperatures
3.3.5
Global warming
3.3.6
Albedo
Contents
3.4
Planetary atmospheres
84
3.4.1
Secondary atmospheres
86
3.4.2
The evolution of the earth's atmosphere
87
3.5
The planets of the solar system
8 7
88
89
92
94
102
106
108
1 1 5
1 17
120
124
128
3.6
Comets
129
1 50
131
3.7
Questions
1 52
Chapter
4:
Extra-solar Planets
135
4.1
The radial velocity
(Doppler
wobble) method of planetary detection
1 55
4.1.1
Pulsar planets
1 58
4.1.2
The discovery of the first planet around a sun-like star
1 59
4.2
Planetary transits
142
4.3
Gravitational microlensing
145
4.4
Astrometry
148
4.5
Discovery space
149
4.6
Selection effects and the likelihood of finding solar systems like ours
1 51
4.7
Questions
151
Chapter
5:
Observing the Universe
153
5.1
Thinking about optics in terms of waves rather than rays I
5 5
5.1.1
The parabolic mirror
1 5 ?
5.1.2
Imaging with a thin lens
156
5.1.5
The achromatic doublet
1 59
3.5.1
Mercury
3.5.2
Venus
3.5.3
The Earth
3.5.4
The moon
3.5.5
Mars
3.5.6
Ceres and the minor planets
5.5.7
Jupiter
5.5.8
Saturn
5.5.9
Uranus
3.5.10
Neptune
3.5.11
Pluto
3.5.12
Eris
Comets
3.6.1
Hallcy's comet
3.6.2
Cometary nuclei
Questions
Contents
5.2 The human
eye
161
5.3
The use of a telescope or pair of binoculars to see fainter objects
163
5.4
Using a telescope to see more detail in an image
164
5.4.1
An interesting worked example of the effects
of diffraction
166
5.4.2
The effect of diffraction on the resolution of a telescope
167
5.5
The magnification of a telescope
168
5.6
Image contrast
170
5.7
The classic Newtonian telescope
170
5.8
The Cassegrain telescope
172
5.9
Catadioptric telescopes
172
5.9.1
The Schmidt camera
172
5.9.2
The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
173
5.9.3
The Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope
174
5.10
Active and adaptive optics
174
5.10.1
Active optics
175
5.10.2
Adaptive optics
175
5.11
Some significant optical telescopes
176
5.11.1
Gemini North and South telescopes
176
5.11.2
The Keck telescopes
177
5.11.3
The South Africa Large Telescope (SALT)
177
5.11.4
The Very Large Telescope (VLT)
178
5.11.5
The Hubble Space Telescope
(HST)
179
5.11.6
The future of optical astronomy
180
5.12
Radiotélescopes
181
5.12.1
The feed and low noise amplifier system
182
5.12.2
Radio receivers
183
5.12.3
Telescope designs
184
5.12.4
Large fixed dishes
186
5.12.5
Telescope arrays
188
5.12.6
Very Long Baseline
Interferometry
(
VLBI)
189
5.12.7
The future of radio astronomy
191
5.13
Observing in other wavebands
193
5.13.1
Infrared
193
5.13.2
Submillimetre wavelengths
193
5.13.3
The
Spitzer
space telescope
195
5.13.4
Ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray observatories
195
Contents
5.14
Observing the universe without using electromagnetic
radiation
197
5.14.1
Cosmic rays
197
5.14.2
Gravitational waves
199
5.15
Questions
202
Chapter
6:
The Properties of Stars
205
6.1
Stellar luminosity
205
6.2
Stellar distances
205
6.2.1
The
parsec
207
6.3
Proper motion
208
6.3.1
Hipparcos and
GAIA
208
6.4
The absolute magnitude scale
209
6.4.1
The standard formula to derive absolute
magnitudes
210
6.5
Colour and surface temperature
212
6.6
Stellar photometry
214
6.7
Stellar spectra
214
6.7.1
The hydrogen spectrum
215
6.7.2
Spectral types
216
6.8
Spectroscopie
parallax
217
6.9
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
219
6.9.1
The main sequence
220
6.9.2
The giant region
220
6.9.3
The white dwarf region
222
6.9.4
Pressure broadening
222
6.10
The size of stars
22
і
6.10.1
Direct measurement
223
6.10.2
Using binary star systems to calculate stellar sizes
225
6.10.3
Using the Stephan-Boltzman law to estimate
stellar sizes
226
6.11
The masses and densities of stars
227
6.12
The stellar mass-luminosity relationship
228
6.13
Stellar lifetimes
229
6.14
Questions
2 30
xii Contents
Chapter
7: Stellar Evolution
-The Life and Death
of
Stars 231
7.1
Low mass stars:
0.05-0.5
solar masses
2 31
7.2
Mid mass stars:
0.5—8
solar masses
2 32
7.2.1
Moving up the main sequence
233
7.2.2
The triple alpha process
2 34
7.2.3
The helium flash
236
7.3
Variable stars
237
7.4
Planetary nebula
239
7.5
White dwarfs
240
7.5.1
The discovery of white dwarfs
240
7.5.2
The future of white dwarfs
241
7.5.3
Black dwarfs
241
7.6
The evolution of a sun-like star
241
7.7
Evolution in close binary systems
-
the Algol paradox
243
7.8
High mass stars in the range
>8
solar masses
243
7.9
Type II supernova
246
7.9.1
The Crab Nebula
247
7.9.2 Supernoval 98
7A
248
7.10
Neutron stars and black holes
2 50
7.11
The discovery of pulsars
2 52
7.11.1
What can pulsars tell us about the universe?
2 55
7.12
Pulsars as tests for general relativity
257
7.13
Black holes
2 59
7.13.1
The detection of stellar mass black holes
260
7.13.2
Black holes are not entirely black
262
7.14
Questions
262
Chapter
8:
Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure
of the
U n
і
verse
265
8.1
The Milky Way
265
8.1.1
Open star clusters
266
8.1.2
Globular clusters
267
8.1.3
The interstellar medium and emission nebulae
268
8.1.4
Size, shape and structure of the Milky Way
269
8.1.5
Observations of the hydrogen line
271
8.1.6
A super-massive black hole at the heart of our galaxy
275
Contents
8.2
Other
galaxies
275
8.2.1
Elliptical
galaxies
275
8.2.2
Spiral galaxies
277
8.2.3
Evidence
for an unseen component in
spiral galaxies
-
dark matter
279
8.2.4
Weighing a galaxy
280
8.2.5
Irregular galaxies
283
8.2.6
The Hubble classification of galaxies
284
8.3
The universe
285
8.3.1
The cosmic distance scale
285
8.3.2
Using Supernova 1987A to measure the distance of the
Large Magellanic Cloud
285
8.3.3
The Cepheid variable distance scale
287
8.3.4
Starburst galaxies
289
8.3.5
Active galaxies
291
8.3.6
Groups and clusters of galaxies
295
8.3.7
Superclusters
297
8.3.8
The structure of the universe
297
8.4
Questions
298
Chapter
9:
Cosmology-the Origin and Evolution of the Universe
301
9.1
Einstein's blunder?
301
9.2
Big Bang models of the universe
301
9.3
The blueshifts and redshifts observed in the spectra of galaxies
303
9.4
The expansion of the universe
304
9.4.1
A problem with age
306
9.5
The steady state model of the universe
308
9.6
Big Bang or Steady State?
309
9.7
The cosmic microwave background
309
9.7.1
The discovery of the cosmic microwave background
310
9.8
Inflation
312
9.9
The Big Bang and the formation of the primeval elements
З І З
9.10
The 'ripples' in the Cosmic Microwave Background
313
9.11
How dark matter affects the cosmic microwave background
314
9.12
The hidden universe: dark matter and dark energy
316
9.12.1
Evidence for dark matter
317
9.12.2
How much non-baryonic dark matter is there?
319
9.12.3
What is dark matter?
319
xiv Contents
9.12.4
Dark energy
322
9.12.5
Evidence for dark energy
322
9.12.6
The nature of dark energy
324
9.13
The makeup of the universe
325
9.14
Auniversefitforintelligentlife
326
9.14.1
A'multiverse'
328
9.14.2
String theory: another approach to a multiverse
328
9.15
Intelligent life in the universe
329
9.15.1
The Drake equation
329
9.15.2
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
(SETI) 331
9.16
The future of the universe
332
Index
335 |
| adam_txt |
Contents
Preface
xv
Biography
xvii
Chapter
1 :
Astronomy, an Observational Science
1
1.1
Introduction
1
1.2
Galileo Galilei's proof of the Copernican theory of the solar system
1
1.3
The celestial sphere and stellar magnitudes
4
1.3.1
The constellations
4
1.3.2
Stellar magnitudes
5
1.3.3
Apparent magnitudes
5
1.3.4
Magnitude calculations
6
1.4
The celestial coordinate system
7
1.5
Precession
9
1.6
Time
11
1.6.1
Local solar time
11
1.6.2
Greenwich mean time
11
1.6.3
The equation of time
12
1.6.4
Universal time
12
1.6.5
Sidereal time
13
1.6.6
An absolute time standard
-
cosmic time
14
1.7
A second major observational triumph: the laws of planetary motion
16
1.7.1
Tycho Brahe's observations of the heavens
17
1.7.2
Johannes Kepler joins Tycho
Brahe
20
1.7.3
The laws of planetary motion
20
1.8
Measuring the astronomical unit
23
1.9
Isaac Newton and his Universal Law of Gravity
2 5
1.9.1
Derivation of Kepler's third law
30
1.10
Experimental measurements of G. the Universal constant
of gravitation
32
1.11
Gravity today: Einstein's special and general theories of relativity
З З
1.12
Conclusion
36
1.13
Questions
36
viii Contents
Chapter
2:
Our Solar System
1 -
The Sun
39
2.1
The formation of the solar system
3 9
2.2
The Sun
43
2.2.1
Overall properties of the Sun
43
2.2.2
The Sun's total energy output
45
2.2.3
Black body radiation and the sun's surface temperature
46
2.2.4
The
Fraunhofer
lines in the solar spectrum and the composition
of the sun
49
2.3
Nuclear fusion
50
2.3.1
The proton-proton cycle
5 3
2.4
The solar neutrino problem
57
2.4.1
The solar neutrino problem is solved
58
2.5
The solar atmosphere: photosphere, chromosphere and corona
59
2.5.1
Coronium
61
2.6
The solar wind
61
2.7
The sun's magnetic field and the sunspot cycle
62
2.7.1
Sunspots
62
2.7.2
The sunspot cycle
64
2.8
Prominences, flares and the interaction of the solar wind with
the earth's atmosphere
65
2.8.1
The aurora
66
2.9
Solar eclipses
67
2.9.1
Two significant solar eclipses
69
2.9.2
The Shapiro delay
71
2.10
Questions
72
Chapter
3:
Our Solar System
2 -
The Planets
75
75
77
78
79
79
80
80
81
83
83
3.1
What
і
s a
planet?
3.2
Planetary orbits
3.2.1
Orbital inclination
3.3
Planetary properties
3.3.1
Planetary masses
3.3.2
Planetary densities
3.3.3
Rotation periods
3.3.4
Planetary temperatures
3.3.5
Global warming
3.3.6
Albedo
Contents
3.4
Planetary atmospheres
84
3.4.1
Secondary atmospheres
86
3.4.2
The evolution of the earth's atmosphere
87
3.5
The planets of the solar system
8 7
88
89
92
94
102
106
108
1 1 5
1 17
120
124
128
3.6
Comets
129
1 50
131
3.7
Questions
1 52
Chapter
4:
Extra-solar Planets
135
4.1
The radial velocity
(Doppler
wobble) method of planetary detection
1 55
4.1.1
Pulsar planets
1 58
4.1.2
The discovery of the first planet around a sun-like star
1 59
4.2
Planetary transits
142
4.3
Gravitational microlensing
145
4.4
Astrometry
148
4.5
Discovery space
149
4.6
Selection effects and the likelihood of finding solar systems like ours
1 51
4.7
Questions
151
Chapter
5:
Observing the Universe
153
5.1
Thinking about optics in terms of waves rather than rays I
5 5
5.1.1
The parabolic mirror
1 5 ?
5.1.2
Imaging with a thin lens
156
5.1.5
The achromatic doublet
1 59
3.5.1
Mercury
3.5.2
Venus
3.5.3
The Earth
3.5.4
The moon
3.5.5
Mars
3.5.6
Ceres and the minor planets
5.5.7
Jupiter
5.5.8
Saturn
5.5.9
Uranus
3.5.10
Neptune
3.5.11
Pluto
3.5.12
Eris
Comets
3.6.1
Hallcy's comet
3.6.2
Cometary nuclei
Questions
Contents
5.2 The human
eye
161
5.3
The use of a telescope or pair of binoculars to see fainter objects
163
5.4
Using a telescope to see more detail in an image
164
5.4.1
An interesting worked example of the effects
of diffraction
166
5.4.2
The effect of diffraction on the resolution of a telescope
167
5.5
The magnification of a telescope
168
5.6
Image contrast
170
5.7
The classic Newtonian telescope
170
5.8
The Cassegrain telescope
172
5.9
Catadioptric telescopes
172
5.9.1
The Schmidt camera
172
5.9.2
The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
173
5.9.3
The Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope
174
5.10
Active and adaptive optics
174
5.10.1
Active optics
175
5.10.2
Adaptive optics
175
5.11
Some significant optical telescopes
176
5.11.1
Gemini North and South telescopes
176
5.11.2
The Keck telescopes
177
5.11.3
The South Africa Large Telescope (SALT)
177
5.11.4
The Very Large Telescope (VLT)
178
5.11.5
The Hubble Space Telescope
(HST)
179
5.11.6
The future of optical astronomy
180
5.12
Radiotélescopes
181
5.12.1
The feed and low noise amplifier system
182
5.12.2
Radio receivers
183
5.12.3
Telescope designs
184
5.12.4
Large fixed dishes
186
5.12.5
Telescope arrays
188
5.12.6
Very Long Baseline
Interferometry
(
VLBI)
189
5.12.7
The future of radio astronomy
191
5.13
Observing in other wavebands
193
5.13.1
Infrared
193
5.13.2
Submillimetre wavelengths
193
5.13.3
The
Spitzer
space telescope
195
5.13.4
Ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray observatories
195
Contents
5.14
Observing the universe without using electromagnetic
radiation
197
5.14.1
Cosmic rays
197
5.14.2
Gravitational waves
199
5.15
Questions
202
Chapter
6:
The Properties of Stars
205
6.1
Stellar luminosity
205
6.2
Stellar distances
205
6.2.1
The
parsec
207
6.3
Proper motion
208
6.3.1
Hipparcos and
GAIA
208
6.4
The absolute magnitude scale
209
6.4.1
The standard formula to derive absolute
magnitudes
210
6.5
Colour and surface temperature
212
6.6
Stellar photometry
214
6.7
Stellar spectra
214
6.7.1
The hydrogen spectrum
215
6.7.2
Spectral types
216
6.8
Spectroscopie
parallax
217
6.9
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
219
6.9.1
The main sequence
220
6.9.2
The giant region
220
6.9.3
The white dwarf region
222
6.9.4
Pressure broadening
222
6.10
The size of stars
22
і
6.10.1
Direct measurement
223
6.10.2
Using binary star systems to calculate stellar sizes
225
6.10.3
Using the Stephan-Boltzman law to estimate
stellar sizes
226
6.11
The masses and densities of stars
227
6.12
The stellar mass-luminosity relationship
228
6.13
Stellar lifetimes
229
6.14
Questions
2 30
xii Contents
Chapter
7: Stellar Evolution
-The Life and Death
of
Stars 231
7.1
Low mass stars:
0.05-0.5
solar masses
2 31
7.2
Mid mass stars:
0.5—8
solar masses
2 32
7.2.1
Moving up the main sequence
233
7.2.2
The triple alpha process
2 34
7.2.3
The helium flash
236
7.3
Variable stars
237
7.4
Planetary nebula
239
7.5
White dwarfs
240
7.5.1
The discovery of white dwarfs
240
7.5.2
The future of white dwarfs
241
7.5.3
Black dwarfs
241
7.6
The evolution of a sun-like star
241
7.7
Evolution in close binary systems
-
the Algol paradox
243
7.8
High mass stars in the range
>8
solar masses
243
7.9
Type II supernova
246
7.9.1
The Crab Nebula
247
7.9.2 Supernoval 98
7A
248
7.10
Neutron stars and black holes
2 50
7.11
The discovery of pulsars
2 52
7.11.1
What can pulsars tell us about the universe?
2 55
7.12
Pulsars as tests for general relativity
257
7.13
Black holes
2 59
7.13.1
The detection of stellar mass black holes
260
7.13.2
Black holes are not entirely black
262
7.14
Questions
262
Chapter
8:
Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure
of the
U n
і
verse
265
8.1
The Milky Way
265
8.1.1
Open star clusters
266
8.1.2
Globular clusters
267
8.1.3
The interstellar medium and emission nebulae
268
8.1.4
Size, shape and structure of the Milky Way
269
8.1.5
Observations of the hydrogen line
271
8.1.6
A super-massive black hole at the heart of our galaxy
275
Contents
8.2
Other
galaxies
275
8.2.1
Elliptical
galaxies
275
8.2.2
Spiral galaxies
277
8.2.3
Evidence
for an unseen component in
spiral galaxies
-
dark matter
279
8.2.4
Weighing a galaxy
280
8.2.5
Irregular galaxies
283
8.2.6
The Hubble classification of galaxies
284
8.3
The universe
285
8.3.1
The cosmic distance scale
285
8.3.2
Using Supernova 1987A to measure the distance of the
Large Magellanic Cloud
285
8.3.3
The Cepheid variable distance scale
287
8.3.4
Starburst galaxies
289
8.3.5
Active galaxies
291
8.3.6
Groups and clusters of galaxies
295
8.3.7
Superclusters
297
8.3.8
The structure of the universe
297
8.4
Questions
298
Chapter
9:
Cosmology-the Origin and Evolution of the Universe
301
9.1
Einstein's blunder?
301
9.2
Big Bang models of the universe
301
9.3
The blueshifts and redshifts observed in the spectra of galaxies
303
9.4
The expansion of the universe
304
9.4.1
A problem with age
306
9.5
The steady state model of the universe
308
9.6
Big Bang or Steady State?
309
9.7
The cosmic microwave background
309
9.7.1
The discovery of the cosmic microwave background
310
9.8
Inflation
312
9.9
The Big Bang and the formation of the primeval elements
З І З
9.10
The 'ripples' in the Cosmic Microwave Background
313
9.11
How dark matter affects the cosmic microwave background
314
9.12
The hidden universe: dark matter and dark energy
316
9.12.1
Evidence for dark matter
317
9.12.2
How much non-baryonic dark matter is there?
319
9.12.3
What is dark matter?
319
xiv Contents
9.12.4
Dark energy
322
9.12.5
Evidence for dark energy
322
9.12.6
The nature of dark energy
324
9.13
The makeup of the universe
325
9.14
Auniversefitforintelligentlife
326
9.14.1
A'multiverse'
328
9.14.2
String theory: another approach to a multiverse
328
9.15
Intelligent life in the universe
329
9.15.1
The Drake equation
329
9.15.2
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
(SETI) 331
9.16
The future of the universe
332
Index
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