9 X13.5 Doublelines.P65

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

9 X13.5 Doublelines.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-62062-8 - The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies Glen Mackie Table of Contents More information Contents Preface page ix 2.4.6 Submillimeter 40 Acknowledgements xi 2.4.7 Radio 41 2.5 Caveat #1: Mass versus light and dark matter 43 2.6 Caveat #2: Looking back to the beginning 45 Galaxies 1 1 2.7 Caveat #3: Observational bias 48 1.1 Prehistory of galaxies 2 2.8 Galaxy research and multiwavelength 49 1.2 “It is worthy of notice” 5 observations 2.8.1 A unified scheme of active galaxies 49 1.3 Multiwavelength laboratories in space 6 2.8.2 The far-IR radio correlation 50 1.4 The atlas galaxy sample 9 2.8.3 A non-universal IMF 51 1.5 Atlas galaxy categories 9 2.8.4 Gamma ray bursts 51 1.5.1 Normal galaxies 9 2.8.5 Magnetic fields in galaxies 51 1.5.2 Interacting galaxies 9 2.9 Additional reading 53 1.5.3 Merging galaxies 11 1.5.4 Starburst galaxies 11 1.5.5 Active galaxies 12 3 A view from the inside: The Galaxy 55 1.6 Properties of the atlas sample 16 ∗ 1.6.1 Galaxy nomenclature 16 3.1 Quiet monster – Sagittarius A 55 1.6.2 Galaxy morphology 16 3.2 All-sky maps of the Galaxy 58 1.6.3 Distances and luminosities 22 3.2.1 Gamma ray – >100 MeV 58 1.6.4 Multiple classifications 23 3.2.2 Gamma ray – 1.8 MeV 58 1.7 Epoch of formation and galaxy ages 25 3.2.3 Soft X-ray 60 3.2.4 Optical 60 1.8 Additional reading 27 3.2.5 Optical – Hα at 6563 A˚ 60 3.2.6 Near-infrared 60 Observing the electromagnetic 3.2.7 Mid- and far-infrared 60 spectrum 29 2 3.2.8 Radio – molecular hydrogen 65 2.1 Earth’s atmosphere and extraneous radiation 29 3.2.9 Radio – atomic hydrogen 65 3.2.10 Radio – 73 cm/408 MHz continuum 65 2.2 Temperature, energy, wavelength 30 and frequency 3.3 Additional reading 65 2.3 Astronomical sources of radiation 33 2.4 Origin of astronomical radiation 33 4 The Atlas 67 2.4.1 Gamma rays 33 2.4.2 X-rays 35 4.1 Normal galaxies 68 2.4.3 Ultraviolet 37 4.1.1 NGC 224/Messier 31 68 2.4.4 Optical 37 4.1.2 Small Magellanic Cloud 75 2.4.5 Infrared 40 4.1.3 NGC 300 78 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-62062-8 - The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies Glen Mackie Table of Contents More information VIII CONTENTS 4.1.4 NGC 598/Messier 33 82 4.5.5 3C 273 186 4.1.5 NGC 891 90 4.5.6 NGC 4486/Messier 87 188 4.1.6 NGC 1399 94 4.5.7 NGC 4594/Messier 104 193 4.1.7 Large Magellanic Cloud 98 4.5.8 NGC 5128 197 4.1.8 NGC 2915 105 4.5.9 A1795 #1 206 4.1.9 Malin 2 108 4.5.10 Arp 220 209 4.1.10 NGC 5457/Messier 101 110 4.5.11 Cygnus A 212 4.1.11 NGC 6822 116 4.2 Interacting galaxies 119 Appendices and references 219 4.2.1 NGC 4406/Messier 86 119 4.2.2 NGC 4472/Messier 49 122 Appendix A: Telescopes and instruments 220 4.2.3 NGC 4676 124 Appendix B: Source list of all-sky Galaxy images 223 4.2.4 NGC 5194/Messier 51 127 Appendix C: Source list of galaxy images 224 4.3 Merging galaxies 135 4.3.1 NGC 520 135 Appendix D: Cross-reference list 234 4.3.2 NGC 1275 138 Appendix E: Common abbreviations 236 4.3.3 NGC 1316 141 and acronyms 4.3.4 NGC 4038/NGC 4039 146 Appendix F: Astronomical constants and units 237 4.3.5 NGC 7252 151 Appendix G: Other atlases of galaxies 237 4.4 Starburst galaxies 154 Appendix H: Spectral energy distributions 238 4.4.1 NGC 253 154 4.4.2 NGC 3034/Messier 82 161 General text references 240 4.4.3 NGC 5236/Messier 83 165 Major image sources and references 242 4.5 Active galaxies 171 Selected references by galaxy 243 4.5.1 NGC 1068/Messier 77 171 4.5.2 NGC 1365 174 Acknowledgements and permissions 250 4.5.3 NGC 3031/Messier 81 177 Galaxy index 252 4.5.4 NGC 4258/Messier 106 182 Index 253 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org.
Recommended publications
  • May 2019 Newsletter
    Volume24, Issue 9 NWASNEWS May 2019 Newsletter for the Wiltshire, Swindon, Beckington Black Holes, Good Water and NASA Moon plans Astronomical Societies and Salisbury Plain Observing Group April was a good news month for con- of M87 in Virgo. A big lenticular gal- firming a lot of common-sense guess- axy not too far away that can be seen Wiltshire Society Page 2 es with information coming from the spitting out material from its core (easily images when I was in Spain), Swindon Stargazers 3 science bodies. contains a big black hole that became Beckington AS 4 The asteroid material collection mis- the target for a huge base interferom- sion Hayabusat has already revealed etry linked radio telescopes across NASA Space Place 5 a lot about the water on the asteroids May Viewing the Earth. The detail gained enabled and its resemblance to the water here the team to image the event horizon Space News 6-21 on Earth begins to square the problem activity around the black hole. Hayabusat Samples show Earth- of where Earth’s water come from af- like water on asteroid ter the discovery of comet water not Meanwhile NASA has been working Musk’s Starlink 220 low Earth on the figures to match the presiden- orbit system looking like the likely source. At the Hubble’s 265,00 galaxy picture same time it was shown that asteroids tial aim for putting America on the Mars Dust Storm could show us have a lot of water available. The old Moon again in 2024, a few years after how the water disappeared.
    [Show full text]
  • Messier Objects
    Messier Objects From the Stocker Astroscience Center at Florida International University Miami Florida The Messier Project Main contributors: • Daniel Puentes • Steven Revesz • Bobby Martinez Charles Messier • Gabriel Salazar • Riya Gandhi • Dr. James Webb – Director, Stocker Astroscience center • All images reduced and combined using MIRA image processing software. (Mirametrics) What are Messier Objects? • Messier objects are a list of astronomical sources compiled by Charles Messier, an 18th and early 19th century astronomer. He created a list of distracting objects to avoid while comet hunting. This list now contains over 110 objects, many of which are the most famous astronomical bodies known. The list contains planetary nebula, star clusters, and other galaxies. - Bobby Martinez The Telescope The telescope used to take these images is an Astronomical Consultants and Equipment (ACE) 24- inch (0.61-meter) Ritchey-Chretien reflecting telescope. It has a focal ratio of F6.2 and is supported on a structure independent of the building that houses it. It is equipped with a Finger Lakes 1kx1k CCD camera cooled to -30o C at the Cassegrain focus. It is equipped with dual filter wheels, the first containing UBVRI scientific filters and the second RGBL color filters. Messier 1 Found 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Taurus, the Crab Nebula (known as M1) is a supernova remnant. The original supernova that formed the crab nebula was observed by Chinese, Japanese and Arab astronomers in 1054 AD as an incredibly bright “Guest star” which was visible for over twenty-two months. The supernova that produced the Crab Nebula is thought to have been an evolved star roughly ten times more massive than the Sun.
    [Show full text]
  • OBSERVING BASICS by GUY MACKIE
    OBSERVING BASICS by GUY MACKIE Observing Reports The colorful and detailed photographs we see of celestial objects are not at all like the ubiquitous "fuzzy blobs" we see at the eyepiece. Nevertheless, you are freezing your buns off and loosing much needed sleep for work, the next day so why not make a description of your observations that will make the hunt worthwhile. Here are some suggestions to fill the empty spaces in your logbook and to imprint the observing experience more deeply in your memory. The Basics Your website www.m51.ca has a downloadable log sheet template that is just super, but you can also make up one for yourself or customize the website version to your own needs. The main things to start your report should be the circumstances under which you observed: Observing Location Time (of observing session and of the observation of each object) Optics (type of instrument, eyepiece, filters, power of magnification) Transparency (page 56 of the Observers Handbook) Seeing (for me this is a subjective rating of the atmospheric stability based on Planet features and double star observations) It is good to know the field of view (FOV) of each of your eyepieces in minutes of degree, then you can estimate the approximate size of the object. The sketchpad I use has the FOV for every eyepiece I use taped to the back, a handy reference. To calculate your field of view there are websites that will punch out the both the magnification and the FOV for most eyepieces. You can do it yourself: With any motor drives turned off, place a star near the celestial equator just outside the field of view in the eyepiece so that it will drift across the middle of the field of view.
    [Show full text]
  • And Ecclesiastical Cosmology
    GSJ: VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3, MARCH 2018 101 GSJ: Volume 6, Issue 3, March 2018, Online: ISSN 2320-9186 www.globalscientificjournal.com DEMOLITION HUBBLE'S LAW, BIG BANG THE BASIS OF "MODERN" AND ECCLESIASTICAL COSMOLOGY Author: Weitter Duckss (Slavko Sedic) Zadar Croatia Pусскй Croatian „If two objects are represented by ball bearings and space-time by the stretching of a rubber sheet, the Doppler effect is caused by the rolling of ball bearings over the rubber sheet in order to achieve a particular motion. A cosmological red shift occurs when ball bearings get stuck on the sheet, which is stretched.“ Wikipedia OK, let's check that on our local group of galaxies (the table from my article „Where did the blue spectral shift inside the universe come from?“) galaxies, local groups Redshift km/s Blueshift km/s Sextans B (4.44 ± 0.23 Mly) 300 ± 0 Sextans A 324 ± 2 NGC 3109 403 ± 1 Tucana Dwarf 130 ± ? Leo I 285 ± 2 NGC 6822 -57 ± 2 Andromeda Galaxy -301 ± 1 Leo II (about 690,000 ly) 79 ± 1 Phoenix Dwarf 60 ± 30 SagDIG -79 ± 1 Aquarius Dwarf -141 ± 2 Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte -122 ± 2 Pisces Dwarf -287 ± 0 Antlia Dwarf 362 ± 0 Leo A 0.000067 (z) Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal -354 ± 3 IC 10 -348 ± 1 NGC 185 -202 ± 3 Canes Venatici I ~ 31 GSJ© 2018 www.globalscientificjournal.com GSJ: VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3, MARCH 2018 102 Andromeda III -351 ± 9 Andromeda II -188 ± 3 Triangulum Galaxy -179 ± 3 Messier 110 -241 ± 3 NGC 147 (2.53 ± 0.11 Mly) -193 ± 3 Small Magellanic Cloud 0.000527 Large Magellanic Cloud - - M32 -200 ± 6 NGC 205 -241 ± 3 IC 1613 -234 ± 1 Carina Dwarf 230 ± 60 Sextans Dwarf 224 ± 2 Ursa Minor Dwarf (200 ± 30 kly) -247 ± 1 Draco Dwarf -292 ± 21 Cassiopeia Dwarf -307 ± 2 Ursa Major II Dwarf - 116 Leo IV 130 Leo V ( 585 kly) 173 Leo T -60 Bootes II -120 Pegasus Dwarf -183 ± 0 Sculptor Dwarf 110 ± 1 Etc.
    [Show full text]
  • Space Scoop Is Based on a Press Release from Noirlab
    An incredible view up close March 18, 2021 If we could see the majestic spiral galaxy Messier 106 in the night sky with our naked eye, it would be very, very small - in fact, it would look smaller than a penny held at arm’s length. Messier 106, also known as NGC 4258, is nowhere in our galactic neighborhood - even if we could travel at the speed of light, the trip would be impressively long: it would still take us 20 million years to get there! As our eyes alone cannot reach that far and see that well, astronomers use very large and powerful telescopes to look into the vastness of the sky. Using the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope in Arizona, United States, researchers have done just that - they took the best picture ever of Messier 106, and it looks beautiful! At the heart of the galaxy is an energetic gas and dust-eating supermassive black hole that spews red streamers of gas as it spins at incredible speeds. Now we have a better view of what is happening there. Even the Hubble Space Telescope could not see the center of Messier 106 so clearly! Standard candles The spiral galaxy Messier 106 is especially important because it contains Cepheid variables - one of the objects that are used as “cosmic yardsticks” to measure the scale of the Universe. Astronomers call these objects “standard candles,” since their luminosity is well known. Scientists then compare the real brightness of these standard candles with how bright these objects appear to be for us here on Earth.
    [Show full text]
  • Clustering of Local Group Distances: Publication Bias Or Correlated Measurements? VI
    Draft version November 12, 2019 Typeset using LATEX default style in AASTeX63 Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? VI. Extending to Virgo cluster distances Richard de Grijs1, 2, 3 and Giuseppe Bono4, 5 1Department of Physics & Astronomy, Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia 2Research Centre for Astronomy, Astrophysics & Astrophotonics, Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia 3International Space Science Institute{Beijing, 1 Nanertiao, Zhongguancun, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100190, China 4Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit`adi Roma Tor Vergata, via Della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Roma, Italy 5INAF, Rome Astronomical Observatory, via Frascati 33, 00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy ABSTRACT We have established an internally consistent Local Group distance framework, using the Galactic Center, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and Messier 31 (M31) as important stepping stones. At greater distances, few distance benchmarks are available. As a consequence, M87 and/or Virgo cluster dis- tances are often invoked as the next rung on the ladder to more distant objects such as the Fornax and Coma clusters. Therefore, we extensively mined the published literature for independently derived distance estimates to either M87 or the center of the Virgo cluster. Based on our newly compiled, comprehensive database of 213 such distances, published between 1929 and 2017 July, we recommend M87 an outward extension to our distance framework, (m − M)0 = 31:03 ± 0:14 mag (D = 16:07 ± 1:03 Mpc; where the uncertainty represents the Gaussian σ of the distribution), based on a subset of recent (post-1990) M87/Virgo cluster distance measurements. The most stable distance tracers employed here were derived from analysis of both primary and secondary distance indicators.
    [Show full text]
  • A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography National Aeronautics and Space Administration A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography Dr. Sten Odenwald NASA Space Science Education Consortium Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland Cover designs and editing by Abbey Interrante Cover illustrations Front: Aurora (Elizabeth Macdonald), moon (Spencer Collins), star trails (Donald Noor), Orion nebula (Christian Harris), solar eclipse (Christopher Jones), Milky Way (Shun-Chia Yang), satellite streaks (Stanislav Kaniansky),sunspot (Michael Seeboerger-Weichselbaum),sun dogs (Billy Heather). Back: Milky Way (Gabriel Clark) Two front cover designs are provided with this book. To conserve toner, begin document printing with the second cover. This product is supported by NASA under cooperative agreement number NNH15ZDA004C. [1] Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 5 How to use this book ..................................................................................................................................... 9 1.0 Light Pollution ....................................................................................................................................... 12 2.0 Cameras ................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Astrophotography a Beginner’S Guide
    Astrophotography A Beginner’s Guide By James Seaman Copyright © James Seaman 2018 Contents Astrophotography ................................................................................................................................... 5 Equipment ........................................................................................................................................... 6 DSLR Cameras ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Sensors ............................................................................................................................................ 7 Focal Length .................................................................................................................................... 8 Exposure .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Aperture ........................................................................................................................................ 10 ISO ................................................................................................................................................. 11 White Balance ............................................................................................................................... 12 File Formats ..................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • ESO Annual Report 2004 ESO Annual Report 2004 Presented to the Council by the Director General Dr
    ESO Annual Report 2004 ESO Annual Report 2004 presented to the Council by the Director General Dr. Catherine Cesarsky View of La Silla from the 3.6-m telescope. ESO is the foremost intergovernmental European Science and Technology organi- sation in the field of ground-based as- trophysics. It is supported by eleven coun- tries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Created in 1962, ESO provides state-of- the-art research facilities to European astronomers and astrophysicists. In pur- suit of this task, ESO’s activities cover a wide spectrum including the design and construction of world-class ground-based observational facilities for the member- state scientists, large telescope projects, design of innovative scientific instruments, developing new and advanced techno- logies, furthering European co-operation and carrying out European educational programmes. ESO operates at three sites in the Ataca- ma desert region of Chile. The first site The VLT is a most unusual telescope, is at La Silla, a mountain 600 km north of based on the latest technology. It is not Santiago de Chile, at 2 400 m altitude. just one, but an array of 4 telescopes, It is equipped with several optical tele- each with a main mirror of 8.2-m diame- scopes with mirror diameters of up to ter. With one such telescope, images 3.6-metres. The 3.5-m New Technology of celestial objects as faint as magnitude Telescope (NTT) was the first in the 30 have been obtained in a one-hour ex- world to have a computer-controlled main posure.
    [Show full text]
  • Events: No General Meeting in April
    The monthly newsletter of the Temecula Valley Astronomers Apr 2020 Events: No General Meeting in April. Until we can resume our monthly meetings, you can still interact with your astronomy associates on Facebook or by posting a message to our mailing list. General information: Subscription to the TVA is included in the annual $25 membership (regular members) donation ($9 student; $35 family). President: Mark Baker 951-691-0101 WHAT’S INSIDE THIS MONTH: <[email protected]> Vice President: Sam Pitts <[email protected]> Cosmic Comments Past President: John Garrett <[email protected]> by President Mark Baker Treasurer: Curtis Croulet <[email protected]> Looking Up Redux Secretary: Deborah Baker <[email protected]> Club Librarian: Vacant compiled by Clark Williams Facebook: Tim Deardorff <[email protected]> Darkness – Part III Star Party Coordinator and Outreach: Deborah Baker by Mark DiVecchio <[email protected]> Hubble at 30: Three Decades of Cosmic Discovery Address renewals or other correspondence to: Temecula Valley Astronomers by David Prosper PO Box 1292 Murrieta, CA 92564 Send newsletter submissions to Mark DiVecchio th <[email protected]> by the 20 of the month for Members’ Mailing List: the next month's issue. [email protected] Website: http://www.temeculavalleyastronomers.com/ Like us on Facebook Page 1 of 18 The monthly newsletter of the Temecula Valley Astronomers Apr 2020 Cosmic Comments by President Mark Baker One of the things commonly overlooked about Space related Missions is time, and of course, timing…!!! Many programs take a decade just to get them in place and off the ground, and many can take twice that long…just look at the James Webb Telescope!!! So there’s the “time” aspect of such endeavors…what about timing?? I mentioned last month that July is looking like a busy month for Martian Missions… here’s a refresher: 1) The NASA Mars 2020 rover Perseverance and its helicopter drone companion (aka Lone Ranger and Tonto, as I called them) is still on schedule.
    [Show full text]
  • The Messier Catalog
    The Messier Catalog Messier 1 Messier 2 Messier 3 Messier 4 Messier 5 Crab Nebula globular cluster globular cluster globular cluster globular cluster Messier 6 Messier 7 Messier 8 Messier 9 Messier 10 open cluster open cluster Lagoon Nebula globular cluster globular cluster Butterfly Cluster Ptolemy's Cluster Messier 11 Messier 12 Messier 13 Messier 14 Messier 15 Wild Duck Cluster globular cluster Hercules glob luster globular cluster globular cluster Messier 16 Messier 17 Messier 18 Messier 19 Messier 20 Eagle Nebula The Omega, Swan, open cluster globular cluster Trifid Nebula or Horseshoe Nebula Messier 21 Messier 22 Messier 23 Messier 24 Messier 25 open cluster globular cluster open cluster Milky Way Patch open cluster Messier 26 Messier 27 Messier 28 Messier 29 Messier 30 open cluster Dumbbell Nebula globular cluster open cluster globular cluster Messier 31 Messier 32 Messier 33 Messier 34 Messier 35 Andromeda dwarf Andromeda Galaxy Triangulum Galaxy open cluster open cluster elliptical galaxy Messier 36 Messier 37 Messier 38 Messier 39 Messier 40 open cluster open cluster open cluster open cluster double star Winecke 4 Messier 41 Messier 42/43 Messier 44 Messier 45 Messier 46 open cluster Orion Nebula Praesepe Pleiades open cluster Beehive Cluster Suburu Messier 47 Messier 48 Messier 49 Messier 50 Messier 51 open cluster open cluster elliptical galaxy open cluster Whirlpool Galaxy Messier 52 Messier 53 Messier 54 Messier 55 Messier 56 open cluster globular cluster globular cluster globular cluster globular cluster Messier 57 Messier
    [Show full text]
  • Smoking Galaxy Revealed 17 March 2006
    Smoking galaxy revealed 17 March 2006 The smelly material, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, can be found on Earth in tailpipes, barbecue pits and other places where combustion reactions have occurred. In galaxies, the stuff is created by stars, whose winds and radiation blow the material out into space. "Usually you see smoke before a fire, but we knew about the fire in this galaxy before Spitzer's infrared eyes saw the smoke," said Dr. David Leisawitz, Spitzer program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. These hazy clouds are some of the biggest ever The visible-light picture of the Cigar galaxy shows only a seen around a galaxy. They stretch out 20,000 light- bar of light against a dark patch of space. Click on years away from the galactic plane in both browse image for a visible/infrared comparison. Image directions, far beyond where stars are found. credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/NOAO Previous observations of Messier 82 had revealed two cone-shaped clouds of very hot gas projecting outward below and above the center of galaxy. Where there's smoke, there's fire - even in outer Spitzer's sensitive infrared vision allowed space. A new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer astronomers to see the galaxy's dust. Space Telescope shows a burning hot galaxy whose fiery stars appear to be blowing out giant "Spitzer showed us a dust halo all around this billows of smoky dust. galaxy," said Engelbracht. "We still don't understand why the dust is all over the place and The galaxy, called Messier 82, or the "Cigar not cone-shaped." galaxy," was previously known to host a hotbed of young, massive stars.
    [Show full text]