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Light Detectives

Light Detectives. Using NASA’s WISE Data to Identify Brown Dwarfs and ULIRGs. Light Detectives. Light Detectives – #2. Brown dwarfs. Limb of Sun. Brown dwarf. Brown dwarf. Very low mass star. Jupiter. Where is the brown dwarf?. Light Detectives – #3. How do astronomers

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Light Detectives

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  1. Light Detectives Using NASA’s WISE Data to Identify Brown Dwarfs and ULIRGs Light Detectives

  2. Light Detectives – #2 Brown dwarfs Limb of Sun Brown dwarf Brown dwarf Very low mass star Jupiter

  3. Where is the brown dwarf? Light Detectives – #3

  4. How do astronomers know what they know? Regular Stars Brown Dwarfs (more green [W2], less blue [W1]) Light Detectives – #4

  5. Where is the brown dwarf? Light Detectives – #5

  6. Light Detectives – #6

  7. Light Detectives – #7 Let’s find a brown dwarf more scientifically using real NASA data The Process: Find and download the data Make measurements Plot and interpret the results

  8. Finder Chart • A finder chart shows you where to find objects in the sky. • The same objects will appear in each of the WISE images you download. Light Detectives – #8

  9. How do astronomers know what they know? Regular Stars Brown Dwarfs (more green [W2], less blue [W1]) Light Detectives – #9

  10. Light Detectives – #10

  11. Color-Color Diagram Light Detectives – #11 5 4 3 2 1 0 • Brown dwarfs have LOW intensity in W1. • Brown dwarfs are relatively BRIGHT in W2 light. • What objects have high W2/W1 ratios? • What objects have higher W3/W2 ratios than brown dwarfs? AGB Stars W2/W1 Brown Dwarfs ULIRGs Stars Normal Galaxies 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 W3/W2

  12. Light Detectives – #12 ULIRGs Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies

  13. Arp 220 Light Detectives – #13

  14. Light Detectives – #14 • Finder Chart • A finder chart shows you where to find objects in the sky. • The same objects will appear in each of the WISE images you download.

  15. Light Detectives – #15

  16. WISE color image Light Detectives – #16

  17. WISE color image Light Detectives – #17 Hubble image ULIRG created by two merging galaxies!

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