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• How Do We Observe Star Formation
  ...istribution peaks at the wavelength close to the predicted maximum for its black body equivalent. For hotter stars, this occurs at shorter wavelengths (hig ...r in its SED. A "hot" object is also referred to as "blue" because hotter black bodies peak at wavelengths bluer (shorter) than their cooler counterparts.
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• Astronomers as people
  *[http://bit.ly/blackastro Black Lives in Astronomy Resource Guide]
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• Chandra
  ...e Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes. Because X-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, Chandra must orbi ...ound the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way, and found black holes across the Universe. Chandra has traced the separation of dark matter
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• Studying AGN
  ...aradigm became where a large amount of gas was flowing into a supermassive black hole at the center of an AGN. As the gas flows in, it forms an accretion di ...ecause inflowing gas from the host galaxy forms an accretion disk around a black hole. The accreting gas heats up and starts emitting light -- just like any
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• TRS Useful Links
  *[http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/blackholes/ Lesson on Black Holes from STScI] ....com/bad/misc/black_hole_sun.html Bad Astronomy page on Sun turning into a black hole]
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• The influence of reddening
  ...ect. So just sliding the object back along the Av vector until you hit the black line may not be the right thing to do. ...as no amount of Av will ever move them back to the cloud of points or the black line. In those cases, there is an ultraviolet excess, or "more blue than yo
  11 KB (1,963 words) - 17:01, 31 July 2020
• I need a sinusoidal light curve to play with
  ...140 pc away. It’s an M star. I’ve also attached a color-magnitude diagram (black is Pleiades member with a K2 light curve, grey is likely non-member, red st
  1 KB (233 words) - 16:42, 22 February 2021
• Coldspotz June Visit to Pasadena
  ...dust shells/disks, dusty nearby galaxies, planetary nebulae, supermassive black holes, distant star-forming galaxies.
  2 KB (311 words) - 18:23, 8 August 2012
• HG-WELS Summer visit logistics
  *David Black + 3 (one under 16)
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• Color-Magnitude and Color-Color plots Overview
  ...the star in two spectral bands. This ratio is then directly related to the black body function and hence temperature. For primarily historical reasons, the ...a standard (optical/IR) spectral band. Again since the emitted spectra are black bodies, this is directly related to the total flux. Traditionally, the mos
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• Finding images using IRSA tools
  ...asonable amount of sky at all, you'll get a tiny 2MASS image surrounded by black, blank sky. In order to get big 2MASS images, you should use IRSA Viewer to
  3 KB (556 words) - 21:02, 31 July 2020
• Resolution Skills
  ...rama, and someone says, "can you enhance that?" when referring to a blurry black-and-white image from a security camera, and someone else waves a magic wand
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• Studying Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
  ...ence" and is the same process by which a fluorescent dye will glow under a black light. In that example, the dye absorbs the ultraviolet photons that we can
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• More on filters and bandpasses
  ...thumb|left]] Here are filter transmission curves for the JHKs filters. The black line in that plot is the transmission of the Earth's atmosphere. So, you ca
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• Lauren BRC 27
  • Black body curves • Black body curves
  10 KB (1,573 words) - 14:29, 3 March 2012
• Another CMD explanation attempt
  ...in red to the brightness in blue is the temperature. If you remember the black body curves, as things get hotter they get bluer. These colors give us a me
  5 KB (861 words) - 19:46, 11 August 2020
• OLD main page
  ...ng from the hunt for young stars in IC 2118, to exploring the supermassive black hole in Arp102B.
  6 KB (938 words) - 21:51, 27 July 2020
• Make a simple mosaic
  Note that there is a black-background part of the mosaic at the top, and then you can see the higher-b
  6 KB (998 words) - 19:08, 13 May 2011
• Resolution Overview
  ...re often selected to emphasize different details than are discernable in a black-and-white image.
  6 KB (1,023 words) - 01:32, 28 July 2020
• Working with the HG-WELS data
  .... In my SEDs, I use the following symbols for particular surveys. Vertical black lines through any point is the error on the point; in many cases, the error | black
  31 KB (5,458 words) - 20:37, 28 August 2014

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