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GALAXIAS

GALAXIAS Optico Infrarojo The Galactic Disk The disk of our Galaxy is made up of three main components: Stars Gas Dust The gas in between stars is the “Interstellar Medium” (or “ISM”) Like everywhere, most gas in the disk is hydrogen . Molecular (H 2 ): Cold, dense, tightly clumped.

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GALAXIAS

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  1. GALAXIAS

  2. Optico Infrarojo

  3. The Galactic Disk The disk of our Galaxy is made up of three main components: • Stars • Gas • Dust

  4. The gas in between stars is the “Interstellar Medium” (or “ISM”) Like everywhere, most gas in the disk is hydrogen. • Molecular (H2): • Cold, dense, tightly clumped. • Stars form within molecular clouds. • “Neutral” or Atomic (HI): • Cool, less dense, less tightly clumped. • Most common phase; the reservoir for forming the next generation of stars. • “Ionized” (HII): • Hot, more diffuse. • By-product of forming young stars.

  5. Young massive stars die out, and electrons and nuclei recombine Gas is compressed, and cools Atomic HI Molecular H2 Ionized HII Young massive O-stars form, and ionize the gas

  6. Fountains and Blowouts SNe from newly formed massive stars can make holes in the disk, driving material out of the Galaxy or redistributing it

  7. Blowout in M82 “starburst” galaxy… Red is “false color”, showing location of extremely hot gas detected in X-rays. Hot because the gas is mostly the “ejecta” from supernovae!

  8. Los brazos de la galaxia son regiones de alta densidad donde ocurre la mayor parte del proceso de formación de nuevas estrellas. Por otro lado, las ondas de choque generadas por explosiones de estrellas evitan que los brazos se dispersen.

  9. Los brazos no son rígidos; más bien son ciertas zonas que las estrellas atraviesan en su movimiento de rotación alrededor del centro galáctico. Se calcula que el Sol ya dio varias vueltas completas. En este momento, está en una zona "tranquila", al borde de un brazo secundario.

  10. The Bulge: A Very Crowded Neighborhood The density of stars in the bulge is about 50,000 per cubic parsec By comparison, the nearest star to the Sun is 1.3 pc away!

  11. Milky Way is believed to have a bar at its center…

  12. The Galactic Halo: Ancient Stars No gas, so no star formation… …just a bunch of old stars, either by themselves or in globular clusters.

  13. Ordered Rotation • Nearly circular orbits (like planets around the Sun) • Randomly • Highly elliptical orbits, plunging in and out of the center of the galaxy, atrandom orientations. Stuff in Galaxies moves in two basic ways…

  14. Side View of the Milky Way The “halo” is really the “stellar halo” – turns out there’s actually a larger halo we can’t even see! Globular clusters live in the halo

  15. Turns out there’s a lot of this invisible matter.

  16. Overall Properties of the Galactic Disk, Halo, and Bulge

  17. Observational tracers of magnetic fields • Polarization of starlight:perpendicular field in 2 or 3 kpc orientation // B⊥ ------------- 9000 stars • Zeeman splitting: parallel field, in situ (masers, clouds) △ ∝ B// ------ 30 masers • Polarization at infrared, mm:perpendicular field orientation // B⊥------ clouds & star formation regions • Synchrotron radiation:vertical field structures (added) total intensity S ∝ B⊥2/7, p%∝ B⊥u2 / B⊥t2 • Faraday rotation:parallel field, integrated (the halo & disk) RM∝∫ne B//ds ------ 500 pulsars + >1000 EGSes

  18. Large-scale magnetic field in the Galactic disk The largest coherent field structrue detected in the Universe!

  19. Poloidal & Toroidal fields near GC (from Novak et al. 2003) Predicted B-direction GC Toroidal fields (Novak et al. 2003, 2000) permeated in the central molecular zone (400pc*50pc) sub-mm obs of p% toroidal field directions determined by averaged RMs of plumes or SNR! Poloidal field filaments Unique to GC --- dipolar geometry! (Morris 1994; Lang et al.1999) 150pc

  20. The Milky Way: A Barred Spiral Galaxy The Milky Way is a “spiral” galaxy, sometimes also called a “late type” galaxy.

  21. Side View “edge-on” Top View “face-on”

  22. “Sombrero Galaxy”

  23. Elliptical Galaxies (or just “ellipticals”) • No disk! old! “spheroidals”

  24. “S0” galaxies: Like ellipticals, but usually a bit flatter.

  25. Early Types Late Types Unbarred and Barred Spirals Ellipticals Lenticulars

  26. Varying amounts of bulge & disk components suggests different formation & evolution history On average… • Older Stars • Gas Poor • More Massive • On-going Star Formation • Gas Rich • Less Massive

  27. Early-Type Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

  28. Late-TypeGalaxies From SDSS (red because of dust)

  29. There are galaxies beyond the Hubble Sequence that continue this trend. ??? “Dwarf” or “Irregular” Galaxies

  30. “Dwarf” or “Irregular” galaxies tend to have more chaotic appearances… • Low mass (107-109 stars, vs 1010 for spirals) • High star formation rates (usually) • No obvious bulge or spiral patterns. • Most numerous type of galaxy in the Universe!

  31. Dwarf galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

  32. “Gas Infall” • Galaxies continue to form stars. • Just enough gas in galaxy disks today to form stars for <109 years. • Fresh gas must keep it going. • Fraction of metals (non-H, He) in stars is lower than expected. • Fresh Hydrogen must be flowing in.

  33. “Merging” or “Galaxy Interactions” • Gravity pulls galaxies together! • They can orbit each other & eventually merge!

  34. “The Antennae” (Hubble Image @ Right)

  35. Multiple cores in some ellipticals in clusters of galaxies

  36. “Minor Mergers” We know this is currently happening…

  37. Zoom-in M16 (Eagle) M17 (Horseshoe) Milky Way M8 (Lagoon) Hale-Bopp Jupiter Picture credit: W. Keel

  38. Eagle Nebula (M16)

  39. Eagle Nebula (M16)

  40. Eagle Nebula (M16)

  41. size of our solar system Eagle Nebula (M16)

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