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Infrared Astronomy – Seeing the Heat from William Herschel to the Herschel Space Observatory K23161_FM.indd 1 10/9/14 2:04 AM Infrared Astronomy – Seeing the Heat from William Herschel to the Herschel Space Observatory David L. Clements Imperial College London, UK K23161_FM.indd 3 10/9/14 2:04 AM CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2015 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Version Date: 20150608 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-4822-3728-3 (eBook - PDF) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. 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Contents List of Figures xiii Foreword: The Arp 220 Moment xix Preface xxi Author xxiii Chapter 1 Finding the Heat 1 1.1 REDDER THAN RED 1 1.2 THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM 3 1.3 THERMAL RADIATION 4 1.4 SPECTRAL LINES AND QUANTUM MECHANICS 7 1.5 THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE 11 1.6 A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE 15 1.7 THE PRACTICAL: TELESCOPES 16 1.8 OBSERVATIONAL STARS 18 1.8.1 Ground-basedtelescopes 18 1.8.2 Space-basedobservatories 23 1.9 CONCLUSIONS 28 Chapter 2 Feeling the Heat 29 2.1 THE PASTY DETECTOR 29 2.2 THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY: THE HISTORY OF DE• TECTION 29 2.3 ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY 32 2.4 MAKING ELECTRONS FROM PHOTONS 33 2.5 THE DIGITAL AGE 36 vii viii Contents 2.6 INTO THE INFRARED 39 2.7 LONGER WAVELENGTHS 41 2.8 INTO THE RADIO 44 2.9 THE ENEMY: WHAT GETS IN THE WAY 44 2.10 DEFEATING THE ENEMY: CLIMB A MOUNTAIN 48 2.11 FLY A PLANE, FLOAT A BALLOON, BUILD A ROCKET 50 2.12 THE OTHER ENEMY: BACKGROUNDS 52 2.13 CONCLUSIONS 53 Chapter 3 Local Heat 55 3.1 THE GREAT COLLISION OF 1994 55 3.2 LOCAL GEOGRAPHY: A TOUR OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM 56 3.3 INFRARED ASTRONOMY IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM 63 3.4 PLANETS • PEERING THROUGH CLOUDS, STUDYING ATMOSPHERES 63 3.5 MOONS: ICY, VOLCANIC, SMOGGY 65 3.6 ASTEROIDS 66 3.7 COMETS 69 3.8 THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE PROBLEM OF PLUTO 71 3.9 THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE SO• LAR SYSTEM 71 3.10 THE DISCOVERY OF EXOPLANETS 73 3.11 CHARACTERISING EXOPLANETS 75 3.12 CONCLUSIONS 77 Chapter 4 The Heat of the Stars 79 4.1 THE STAR•FILLED SKIES 79 4.2 THE MAIN SEQUENCE 80 4.3 THE LIFE OF STARS 84 4.4 THE SIZES OF STARS 85 4.5 BEYOND THE BOTTOM OF THE MAIN SEQUENCE 91 4.6 WHEN IS A STAR NOT A STAR? WHEN IT’S A FREE FLOAT• ING PLANET 94 4.7 THE REMNANTS OF PLANET FORMATION 95 Contents ix 4.8 AGEING STARS, LOSING WEIGHT 97 4.9 STELLAR DEATH 100 4.10 SUPERNOVAE 101 4.11 CONCLUSIONS 103 Chapter 5 Young Heat 105 5.1 HOLES IN THE SKY 105 5.2 INTRODUCTION 105 5.3 THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM 106 5.4 FROM GIANT MOLECULAR CLOUDS TO COLLAPSING CORES 111 5.5 PROTOSTARSTOSTARS•THEBIGPICTURE 113 5.6 PLANET FORMATION 114 5.7 PROTOSTARS: THE OBSERVATIONS 118 5.8 GROUPS AND BINARIES 119 5.9 HIGH MASS STARS 124 5.10 THE ORIGIN OF THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION 125 5.11 CONCLUSION 127 Chapter 6 Distant Heat 129 6.1 FORGETTING TO BREATHE 129 6.2 GALAXIES • STARS AND SO MUCH MORE 130 6.3 GALAXIES ACROSS THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM 136 6.4 M31: OUR NEAREST NEIGHBOUR 139 6.5 THE IRAS REVOLUTION 140 6.6 THE NORMAL UNIVERSE 141 6.7 THE ACTIVE GALAXY MENAGERIE 142 6.8 AGN UNIFICATION 145 6.9 GALAXIES AND AGN 149 6.10 STARBURST GALAXIES 151 6.11 GALAXY MERGERS 152 6.12 CONCLUSION 156 x Contents Chapter 7 Ancient Heat 159 7.1 LAUNCH DAY 159 7.2 GALAXY EVOLUTION 161 7.3 GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE OPTICAL 165 7.4 REDDER FIELDS, HIGHER REDSHIFTS 168 7.5 THE MOST DISTANT GALAXIES KNOWN 172 7.6 THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND 174 7.7 SCUBA AND SUBMILLIMETRE GALAXIES 176 7.8 SUBMILLIMETRE GALAXIES AT OTHER WAVELENGTHS 179 7.9 THE HDF850.1 STORY 180 7.10 THE HERSCHEL REVOLUTION 181 7.11 THE MOST DISTANT DUSTY GALAXIES 183 7.12 GALAXIES AS TELESCOPES 186 7.13 ALMA • THE NEXT REVOLUTION 188 7.14 CONCLUSIONS 189 Chapter 8 FirstHeat 193 8.1 NOT EVEN WRONG 193 8.2 INTRODUCTION 194 8.3 THE DISCOVERY OF THE CMB 195 8.4 THE EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG BANG 197 8.5 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE 200 8.6 THE SEARCH FOR ANISOTROPY 204 8.7 NOISE IN THE DARKNESS 204 8.8 THE NUMBERS THAT MAKE A UNIVERSE 208 8.9 CMB OBSERVATIONS 213 8.10 THE PLANCK REVOLUTION 214 8.11 THE PLANCK VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE 216 8.12 CMB ANOMALIES 217 8.13 PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE 219 8.14 CONCLUSIONS 220 Chapter 9 Future Heat 221 9.1 THE DAWN OF A NEW MACHINE 221 Contents xi 9.2 WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 222 9.3 SPACE VS. 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    A&A 589, A110 (2016) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527691 & c ESO 2016 Astrophysics Type II supernovae as probes of environment metallicity: observations of host H II regions J. P. Anderson1, C. P. Gutiérrez1; 2; 3, L. Dessart4, M. Hamuy3; 2, L. Galbany2; 3, N. I. Morrell5, M. D. Stritzinger6, M. M. Phillips5, G. Folatelli7, H. M. J. Boffin1, T. de Jaeger2; 3, H. Kuncarayakti2; 3, and J. L. Prieto8; 2 1 European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Córdova 3107, Casilla 19, Santiago, Chile e-mail: [email protected] 2 Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile 3 Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile 4 Laboratoire Lagrange, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Boulevard de l’Observatoire, CS 34229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France 5 Carnegie Observatories, Las Campanas Observatory, Casilla 601, La Serena, Chile 6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark 7 Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, Paseo del Bosque S/N, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina 8 Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile Received 3 November 2015 / Accepted 28 January 2016 ABSTRACT Context. Spectral modelling of type II supernova atmospheres indicates a clear dependence of metal line strengths on progenitor metallicity. This dependence motivates further work to evaluate the accuracy with which these supernovae can be used as environment metallicity indicators. Aims.
  • Ngc Catalogue Ngc Catalogue

    Ngc Catalogue Ngc Catalogue

    NGC CATALOGUE NGC CATALOGUE 1 NGC CATALOGUE Object # Common Name Type Constellation Magnitude RA Dec NGC 1 - Galaxy Pegasus 12.9 00:07:16 27:42:32 NGC 2 - Galaxy Pegasus 14.2 00:07:17 27:40:43 NGC 3 - Galaxy Pisces 13.3 00:07:17 08:18:05 NGC 4 - Galaxy Pisces 15.8 00:07:24 08:22:26 NGC 5 - Galaxy Andromeda 13.3 00:07:49 35:21:46 NGC 6 NGC 20 Galaxy Andromeda 13.1 00:09:33 33:18:32 NGC 7 - Galaxy Sculptor 13.9 00:08:21 -29:54:59 NGC 8 - Double Star Pegasus - 00:08:45 23:50:19 NGC 9 - Galaxy Pegasus 13.5 00:08:54 23:49:04 NGC 10 - Galaxy Sculptor 12.5 00:08:34 -33:51:28 NGC 11 - Galaxy Andromeda 13.7 00:08:42 37:26:53 NGC 12 - Galaxy Pisces 13.1 00:08:45 04:36:44 NGC 13 - Galaxy Andromeda 13.2 00:08:48 33:25:59 NGC 14 - Galaxy Pegasus 12.1 00:08:46 15:48:57 NGC 15 - Galaxy Pegasus 13.8 00:09:02 21:37:30 NGC 16 - Galaxy Pegasus 12.0 00:09:04 27:43:48 NGC 17 NGC 34 Galaxy Cetus 14.4 00:11:07 -12:06:28 NGC 18 - Double Star Pegasus - 00:09:23 27:43:56 NGC 19 - Galaxy Andromeda 13.3 00:10:41 32:58:58 NGC 20 See NGC 6 Galaxy Andromeda 13.1 00:09:33 33:18:32 NGC 21 NGC 29 Galaxy Andromeda 12.7 00:10:47 33:21:07 NGC 22 - Galaxy Pegasus 13.6 00:09:48 27:49:58 NGC 23 - Galaxy Pegasus 12.0 00:09:53 25:55:26 NGC 24 - Galaxy Sculptor 11.6 00:09:56 -24:57:52 NGC 25 - Galaxy Phoenix 13.0 00:09:59 -57:01:13 NGC 26 - Galaxy Pegasus 12.9 00:10:26 25:49:56 NGC 27 - Galaxy Andromeda 13.5 00:10:33 28:59:49 NGC 28 - Galaxy Phoenix 13.8 00:10:25 -56:59:20 NGC 29 See NGC 21 Galaxy Andromeda 12.7 00:10:47 33:21:07 NGC 30 - Double Star Pegasus - 00:10:51 21:58:39