3 - Stellar Spectra

1. 3 - Stellar Spectra

3. Why a slit? No slit Slit

4. Sky Backgrounds and Telescope Nods star slit

5. Visual & Photographic & 2D Electronic Detectors 1D or “Compressed” 2D Electronic Detectors

6. Catalog Names Increasing T

7. ...also collisions with electrons...

8. Balmer Series & Balmer Jump IR Visual! UV

9. BLUE part of the visual spectrum.... Old Photographic NEGATIVES that Defined Spectral Classification

11. Pressure Broadening & Pressure Ionization (Energy Level Perturbation & Changing Recombination Rate)

12. Modern Digital Spectra (from Silva & Cornell 1992, ApJS, 81, 865)

13. Near-IR Spectra (Rayner et al. 2009, PASP, 185, 289)

14. Near-IR Detail

15. Originally, classification was based on spectra at visible wavelengths, since that’s all that was available at the time!

16. Luminosity Classes Log L V = Main Sequence T

18. Spectral Resolution

19. Measuring Stars at Different λs – “Alphabet Soup Photometry” - UBVRIJHKLMNQ "alphabet soup"? “Standard” Johnson System (the most common one in use today) Filter λeff(μm) Δλ(μm) U 0.36 0.07 B 0.44 0.10 V 0.55 0.09 R 0.70 0.22 I 0.90 0.24 J 1.25 0.23 H 1.65 0.29 K 2.2 0.42 L 3.5 0.57 M 4.6 0.34 N 10 6 Q 19 5

20. K J H L M

22. Photometry of 4 dusty stars

23. Photometry & Stellar Magnitudes where const(λ) is set by the photometric system Relative brightnesses of 2 stars at a given λ:

24. The relative brightness of a star at 2 different λs:

30. For a collection of stars at the same distance from us, and T versus L diagram translates into a Color-Magnitude diagram. The magnitude can be either M or m without destroying this correspondence.

32. Beyond OBAFGKM S Stars - dominated by ZrO C/O~1, sometimes Tc present! (99Tc has half-life of 2.1x105 yrs)

33. Carbon Stars C/O >1 R - C/O > 1 bands of C2, C3, CH, CN, etc. N - C/O > 1 and s-process elements like Ba & Sr CH - Old stars with stronger CH

34. Brown Dwarfs

36. Brown Dwarf Spectral Classes M - Above 2000 K, TiO and VO dominate T=2000-2200 K, TiO condenses into solids CaTiO3 in M, Ti3O5 & Ti2O3 in cooler objects L (new!) - TiO and VO gone T (new!) - CH4 appears in “H” and “K” photometric bands (actually in “L” at M5, in “K” at L8, and in “H” at T0 - “The Goldilocks Problem”) Y (just discovered!) – NH3 (H2O??)

37. L & T (brown dwarfs)

38. NOTE: Very Non-Planckian

39. Exoplanet “Spectra” HD189733b Hubble Data Swain et al. 2008