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Homework due on Friday– 11:50 am Honor credit– need to have those papers soon!

Homework due on Friday– 11:50 am Honor credit– need to have those papers soon! THE FINAL IS DECEMBER 15 th : 7-10pm!. Outline. Hubble’s Law Active Galactic Nuclei– Quasars, BL Lac, Radio Galaxies, and Seyfert Galaxies. The monster within: Supermassive blackholes The AGN Unified Model

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Homework due on Friday– 11:50 am Honor credit– need to have those papers soon!

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  1. Homework due on Friday– 11:50 am • Honor credit– need to have those papers soon! • THE FINAL IS DECEMBER 15th: 7-10pm! Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  2. Outline • Hubble’s Law • Active Galactic Nuclei– Quasars, BL Lac, Radio Galaxies, and Seyfert Galaxies. • The monster within: Supermassive blackholes • The AGN Unified Model • Gamma ray bursts Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  3. Redshift of Galaxies • Most Galaxies are moving away from us. • The farther away, the faster they are moving away. • Or V = Ho x D • So, as the Doppler effect tells us, the emission from the Galaxies are redshifted. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  4. Hubble’s Law Redshift z = (obs - em)/em At low redshift z = v/c Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  5. Active Galactic Nuclei • Keep in mind that most galaxies are normal. • But there are some weird galaxies (about 1% of all galaxies) that are unusually bright (about 10-1000 times more than the MW). • They are also variable. • Also called • Quasars • Radio Galaxies • Blazars (BL Lac) BL Lac Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  6. The Cygnus A Galaxy • Looks like a star • But bright in the radio • And it’s moving away from us fast! • Moving away at 14,000 km/s. • That’s about 5% the speed of light! • 635 million light years away! Or 194 Mpc. optical Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  7. Quasars…But It looks like a Star • These objects have a spectrum much like a dim star. • But highly redshifted. • Enormous recessional velocity. • So, Hubble’s Law tells us that they are at “astronomical” distances. • Must be very bright to be visible at such a great distance. • They are also very variable– emission from small region. • Called a Quasi-stellar object, QSO, or Quasar. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  8. Quasars: 3C273 • Really looks like a star. • But greatly redshifted– z = 0.16 • That’s 2 billion light years away. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  9. radio optical X-ray Redshifted! Quasars:3c273 Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  10. PKS 2000-330 • Redshifted so much that UV line emission can be seen in the optical. • This Galaxy is moving away from us at 92% the speed of light. • Distances for Quasars can be as much as 10 to 13 billion light years away. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  11. Quasar Host Galaxies Quasars live in galaxies. They are Galactic Nuclei! Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  12. Radio Galaxies • Galaxies that emit large amounts of radio waves • Radio emission come from lobes on either side of the galaxy, not the galaxy itself. Cygnus A: 320000 lys across Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  13. Radio Galaxies:CentaurusA Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  14. Centaurus A Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  15. Radio Galaxies • There are varying types of radio loud galaxies. • Called radio loud as they can be 10 million times as bright as the MW at radio wavelengths. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  16. Seyfert Galaxies • Look like normal spiral galaxies, but with radio loud nuclei. • This galaxy varies tremendously. Over a few weeks it’s brightness can change by the ENTIRE brightness of the Milkyway. NGC 1566 Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  17. Blazars • Bright nuclei with almost completely featureless spectrum. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  18. Driving the Galaxies:The Monster Within • Probably not a scary blue monster. • But probably the energy source is a supermassive blackhole. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  19. Supermassive Blackholes • Energy source for these active galaxies. • Only thing compact enough and energetic enough. • Blackholes > 1 billion solar masses • Compression of material falling into blackhole heats it up and forces some into jet 800 ly NGC 4261 in the Virgo Cluster Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  20. Supermassive Blackholes • Supermassive blackholes probably exist in most if not all galaxies cores. • In the past, active galaxies were more common then now. • If our galaxy’s blackhole were fed, would it turn into an active galaxy? Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  21. It’s in the eye of the beholder, or angle makes all the difference. Unifed Model of AGNs Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  22. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  23. Gamma Ray Bursts • First detected in 1967 by arm control satellites. First reported in 1973. • Most powerful explosion in the known Universe! Vela Satellites Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  24. Gamma Ray Bursts About 1 a day, lasting from few milliseconds to 1000 seconds. Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

  25. Gamma Ray Bursts Host galaxy • Recent observations confirm they are very energetic (as much energy in 100 seconds as the Sun over its entire life!) and very distant (z = 4). • Energized by either the merging of neutron stars or, more likely, hypernovae (> 40 solar mass star) Afterglow Astronomy 100 Fall 2003

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