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Telescopes and The Sky

Telescopes and The Sky. Katherine Rawlins University of Wisconsin-Madison Presented by Jim Madsen UW-RF. What is a telescope and how does one work? What does the sky look like?. The electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic Waves. Speed = Frequency * Wavelength c = f* l.

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Telescopes and The Sky

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  1. Telescopes and The Sky Katherine Rawlins University of Wisconsin-Madison Presented by Jim Madsen UW-RF

  2. What is a telescope and how does one work?What does the sky look like? Science in the Ice 2003

  3. The electromagnetic spectrum Science in the Ice 2003

  4. Electromagnetic Waves • Speed = Frequency * Wavelength • c = f*l Science in the Ice 2003

  5. Science in the Ice 2003

  6. The optical telescope • A Dobsonian Science in the Ice 2003

  7. WIYN Observatory • Kitt Peak, AZ Science in the Ice 2003

  8. The Hubble Space Telescope Science in the Ice 2003

  9. The optical sky Science in the Ice 2003

  10. Optical image • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) Science in the Ice 2003

  11. Optical image • Supernova 1987A Science in the Ice 2003

  12. The infrared sky Science in the Ice 2003

  13. The radio telescope • Parkes Observatory, Australia Science in the Ice 2003

  14. The Very Large Array • Socorro, NM Science in the Ice 2003

  15. Arecibo Observatory • Puerto Rico Science in the Ice 2003

  16. The radio sky Science in the Ice 2003

  17. Radio image Science in the Ice 2003

  18. Radio image • Jet from M87 Science in the Ice 2003

  19. The x-ray telescope Science in the Ice 2003

  20. Medical X-rays • William Rontgen 1995 • In 2000, there were 150 million chest x-rays in the USA! Science in the Ice 2003

  21. CHANDRA Science in the Ice 2003

  22. The x-ray sky • 1-2 keV energy Science in the Ice 2003

  23. The x-ray sky • 3/4 keV energy Science in the Ice 2003

  24. X-ray images Science in the Ice 2003

  25. The gamma-ray telescope Science in the Ice 2003

  26. Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Science in the Ice 2003

  27. EGRET, BATSE, COMPTEL, and OSSE Science in the Ice 2003

  28. The gamma-ray sky Science in the Ice 2003

  29. Gamma-ray bursts (GRB’s) Science in the Ice 2003

  30. The GRB sky Science in the Ice 2003

  31. The microwave telescope • Penzias and Wilson, 1965 Science in the Ice 2003

  32. The microwave sky Science in the Ice 2003

  33. The Cosmic Microwave Background (in detail) Science in the Ice 2003

  34. There are many different kinds! Cloud chambers Scintillators Ionization Chambers Cherenkov telescopes For detecting… Electrons Protons Muons Neutrinos The particle telescope (?) Science in the Ice 2003

  35. Super-Kamiokande • Mozumi mine, Japan Science in the Ice 2003

  36. Milagro • Los Alamos, NM Science in the Ice 2003

  37. Soudan-2 • Soudan mine, MN Science in the Ice 2003

  38. AMANDA • South Pole, Antarctica Science in the Ice 2003

  39. A Super-K event Science in the Ice 2003

  40. An AMANDA event Science in the Ice 2003

  41. The neutrino sky Science in the Ice 2003

  42. Neutrino image • The first astronomical point source of neutrinos ever detected! Science in the Ice 2003

  43. The take-home message • The universe reveals itself piece by piece, in different wavelengths of light and “messenger” particles. • Only by collecting all the different pieces can we figure out the whole puzzle. • Each new way of looking at the sky requires a new kind of “telescope”. Science in the Ice 2003

  44. The multi-wavelength Milky Way Galaxy Science in the Ice 2003

  45. The multi-wavelength Crab Nebula Optical Infrared ? Radio X-ray Neutrinos Science in the Ice 2003

  46. Web resources & images • CGRO: http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cossc/epo/index.html • BATSE: http://gammaray.msfc.nasa.gov/batse/ • ROSAT: http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/ • VLA: http://zia.aoc.nrao.edu/vla/html/vlahome/genpublic.html • ARECIBO: http://www.naic.edu/about/photos/aoviews.htm • WIYN: http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/ • HST: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/ • COBE: http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/ • CHANDRA: http://chandra.harvard.edu/ • MILAGRO: http://www.lanl.gov/milagro/ • SUPER-K: http://neutrino.phys.washington.edu/~superk/ • AMANDA: http://amanda.berkeley.edu • -------------------------------------------------- • “Multiwavelength” web sites: • http://nvo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mw/ • http://www.gb.nrao.edu/~rmaddale/Education/OrionTourCenter/index.htm Science in the Ice 2003

  47. Amanda Movie Science in the Ice 2003

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