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1 Gravity simplest fusion

2 The life of a star has a complex relationship with gravity: 1. Gravity is what brings the original dust together to make a star 2. Gravity wants to crush the star

3 Gravity pulls together old star-dust. Cloud 100x as large as our solar system. Gravity pulls in cloud to a spinning disk. As it compresses, temp. increases

4 What is the key to igniting a star? Temperature... Needs to induce thermo-nuclear fusion by reaching 18-million K.

5 Main sequence star, like the sun, fuses atoms into larger atoms in order to be in equilibrium with gravity. Once ignited from high temperature, star is selfluminous until fuel runs out. Fuel runs out, but gravity does not...

6 If the fusion stops then the star will give in to gravity, then a few things could happen: -small ones just fade and die out -larger ones get to explode!

7 We can apply Planck s curve to find temp. - Red = cooler - Blue/Violet = hotter Our yellow sun burns somewhere in the middle

8 Small cool red stars, like Proxima Centauri ½ to 1/10 the mass of the sun Surface temp at less than 7000 Farenheit Dim/faint so you don t see

9 20 times the mass of the sun Surface temp at 45,000 Farenheit 10,000 times as bright as sun

10 Size means everything! Larger the star, the shorter the life Opposite what you d think, i.e. big-time gambler! Higher mass higher temp higher pressure higher fusion rate.

11 The sun, and other main sequence stars, will run out of fuel eventually... Gravity will not stop and will contract the star further. However, this compression causes the core to superheat...

12 Takes loan and uses the superheat to start burning Helium. It takes 10 billion years to go through all H takes 100 million to go through all He Fuses He to Carbon and other elements

13 Heat of Helium fusion causes outer shell to expand. Outer atmosphere begins to evaporate. Cause planetary nebula.

14 Gravity keeps coming. Look for a ledge Electrons hate being compacted, the pressure created prevents the collapse Cools bizarrely and forms White Dwarf

15 Very dense 300,000x mass of earth Size of earth Retired Stars releasing light from all accumulated energy spending savings Shines for 1billion more years Will be the fate of our sun

16 In binary system, WD can siphon Hydrogen material. White Dwarf mass increases to become unstable and create a catastrophic explosion Type 1A supernova

17 Type 1A white dwarf.0001% of all energy is given off as light Type II larger stars 10x size of sun

18 Massive stars have layers of different fusion reactions like an onion with heaviest elements in core: H He, He C and O, O Ne and Mn, Si, S, And then... Iron and heavier --requires energy, not building energy IRON CORE COLLAPES AND BLOWS AWAY STAR! Spread out elements that lead to life.

19 How do Neutron Stars Form? After a supernova occurs, there are 3 possible paths for stellar evolution to take Stellar cores with up to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun become white dwarfs. Cores with between 1.4 and 3 times the mass of the Sun become neutron stars. Type II Cores with more than 3 times the mass of the Sun become black holes. All of these transformations take place the same way; gravity compresses what is left over from a supernova explosion. There are 3 possible transformations because the amount of mass in a star affects the force of gravity.

20 After Type II supernova, the core is left intact. To crush core... Gravity wins!? Electron-pressure eliminated when electrons combined with protons and turned to neutrons! Gravity compresses more, neutrons don t like being packed-in either

21 What are Neutron Stars? Neutron stars are the remnants of very large collapsed stars They are approximately km in diameter and weigh about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun Due to the combination of small size and tremendous mass, their force of gravity is about 300,000 times that of Earth. They do not glow no nuclear reaction occurs Some neutron stars do emit radiation, in the form of x-rays and radio waves

22 Why are Neutron Stars so Dense? When a neutron star forms, the pull of gravity is so great that it overrides the electron degeneracy pressure of the atoms of the star. The electrons are forced into their respective nuclei, where they combine with protons to form neutrons. This greatly decreases the size of each atom, and allows them to be packed together much more tightly.

23 Even more dense than the White Dwarf; squeezed to size of Manhattan. Pulsars spin rapidly and shine lighthouse strobe

24 Pulsars Some neutron stars are called Pulsars because of the way they seem to pulse radiation when viewed from Earth They do not really pulse; they emit radiation along an axis. As this axis sweeps across the Earth, it looks like the flow of radiation is pulsing on and off.

25 Neutron Stars vs. Pulsars All pulsars are neutron stars, but not all neutron stars are pulsars. Rotation-powered pulsars have a very active magnetic field... this is what enables the pulse effect Many neutron stars were never able to be pulsars. As time goes on, the pulsar loses its rotational momentum, and eventually stops pulsing. By astronomical standards this happens quickly, usually within a few million years.

26 Crab Pulsar- On Pulsar Crab Pulsar- Off This particular pulsar cycles every 33 milliseconds. These pictures are in the X-ray spectrum.

27 Diagram of a Rotationally-Powered Pulsar

28 Black Holes

29 Formation of a Black Hole Thought to form from stars which have collapsed in on themselves. They form from the core remnant after a supernova. The core 3x the mass of the sun, but much smaller What does that mean about density?

30 Stars that are 25-40x size of the sun are too massive to be able to become Neutron Stars. Gravity crushes them even further inifinte density!

31 Gravity s victory over mass! Huge star collapses to a point where the gravitational field is inescapable, even a flashlight beam cannot escape (it will bend) Not a cosmic vacuum doesn t pull everything to it, but does have an effect on neighbors motions

32 The Center of a Black Hole Singularity - The point at the center of a black hole Event Horizon - Within a certain distance of the singularity, the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape.

33 Event Horizon

34 Supernova 2006 GY not even leaves a blackhole? 100x energy emitted of normal SN death of star 200x as massive as sun? May be a clue to early first stars? Likely gave us early heavy elements (like iron)

35 Collisions are not likely, unless in binary systems or in globular clusters 2 neutron stars can collide to release more energy than sun does during its whole life. White Dwarf vs. Sun would distort sun from immense gravity Globular clusters has collision ever 10,000 years. Two small old stars can come together to make brand new, large Blue stragglers

36 Three ways to end the life of a star: 1. Black hole 2. White Dwarf 3. Neutron Star And...

37 Failed star Less than 80% of sun s mass, so not enough mass to sustain fusion behaves like a planet. Looks and behaves like even more massive Jupiter very dim and similar cloud structures of Iron vapor. Disks left around them that may turn into stars?

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