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UniverseTenth Edition
Chapter 17The Nature of the Stars
Roger Freedman • Robert Geller • William Kaufmann III
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17-1 How we can measure the distances to the stars
17-2 How we measure a star’s brightness and luminosity
17-3 The magnitude scale for brightness and luminosity
17-4 How a star’s color indicates its temperature
17-5 How a star’s spectrum reveals its chemical composition
17-6 How we can determine the sizes of stars
By reading this chapter, you will learn
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17-7 How H-R diagrams summarize our knowledge of the stars
17-8 How we can deduce a star’s size from its spectrum
17-9 How we can use binary stars to measure the masses of stars
17-10 How we can learn about binary stars in very close orbits
17-11 What eclipsing binaries are and what they tell us about the sizes of stars
By reading this chapter, you will learn
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Parallax
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Parallax
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Stellar Parallax
17-1: Careful measurements of the parallaxes of stars reveal their
distances
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Stellar Parallax
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Stellar Parallax
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Stellar Parallax
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Stellar Motion
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The Motion of Barnard’s Star
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The Inverse Square Law
17-2: If a star’s distance is known, its luminosity can be determined from its
apparent brightness
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The Inverse Square Law
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The Inverse Square Law
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The Inverse Square Law
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The Inverse Square Law
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The Luminosity Function
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The Luminosity Function
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The Apparent Magnitude Scale
17-3: Astronomers often use the magnitude scale to denote
brightness
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Temperature and Color
17-4: A star’s color depends on its surface temperature
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U, B and V Filters
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Temperature, Color, and Color Ratio
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Classifying the Spectra of Stars
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Primary Types of Stellar Spectra
17-5: The spectra of stars reveal their chemical compositions as well as their
surface temperatures
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The Strengths of Absorption Lines
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An Infrared Image of Brown Dwarf HD 3651B
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Finding Key Properties of a Nearby Star
17-6: Stars come in a wide variety of sizes and
temperatures
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Hertzsprung- Russell (H-R) Diagrams
17-7: Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagrams reveal different kinds
of stars
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Hertzsprung- Russell (H-R) Diagrams
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Supergiant Betelgeuse
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How a Star’s Size Affects It’s Spectrum
17-8: Details of a star’s spectrum reveal whether it is a giant, a white dwarf or a
main-sequence star
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Luminosity Classes
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Luminosity Classes
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The Method of Spectroscopic Parallax
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A Binary Star System
17-9: Observing binary star systems reveals the masses of
stars
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Center of Mass in a Binary Star System
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Center of Mass in a Binary Star System
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The Mass-Luminosity Relation
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The Mass-Luminosity Relation
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The Main Sequence and Masses
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Radial Velocity Curves
17-10: Spectroscopy makes it possible to study binary systems in which the two stars
are close together
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Radial Velocity Curves
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Representative Light Curves of Eclipsing Binaries
17-11: Light curves of eclipsing binaries provide detailed information about the two
stars
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The Visual Binary 70 Ophiuchi
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Key Ideas• Measuring Distances to Nearby Stars: Distances to the nearer stars
can be determined by parallax, the apparent shift of a star against the background stars observed as the Earth moves along its orbit.
• Parallax measurements made from orbit, above the blurring effects of the atmosphere, are much more accurate than those made with Earth-based telescopes.
• Stellar parallaxes can only be measured for stars within a few hundred parsecs.
• The Inverse-Square Law: A star’s luminosity (total light output), apparent brightness, and distance from the Earth are related by the inverse-square law. If any two of these quantities are known, the third can be calculated.
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Key Ideas• The Population of Stars: Stars of relatively low luminosity
are more common than more luminous stars. Our own Sun is a rather average star of intermediate luminosity.
• The Magnitude Scale: The apparent magnitude scale is an alternative way to measure a star’s apparent brightness.
• The absolute magnitude of a star is the apparent magnitude it would have if viewed from a distance of 10 pc. A version of the inverse-square law relates a star’s absolute magnitude, apparent magnitude, and distance.
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Key Ideas• Photometry and Color Ratios: Photometry measures the apparent
brightness of a star. The color ratios of a star are the ratios of brightness values obtained through different standard filters, such as the U, B, and V filters. These ratios are a measure of the star’s surface temperature.
• Spectral Types: Stars are classified into spectral types (subdivisions of the spectral classes O, B, A, F, G, K, and M), based on the major patterns of spectral lines in their spectra. The spectral class and type of a star is directly related to its surface temperature: O stars are the hottest and M stars are the coolest.
• Most brown dwarfs are in even cooler spectral classes called L, T and Y. Unlike true stars, brown dwarfs are too small to sustain thermonuclear fusion.
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Key Ideas• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram: The Hertzsprung-
Russell (H-R) diagram is a graph plotting the absolute magnitudes of stars against their spectral types—or, equivalently, their luminosities against surface temperatures.
• The positions on the H-R diagram of most stars are along the main sequence, a band that extends from high luminosity and high surface temperature to low luminosity and low surface temperature.
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Key Ideas• On the H-R diagram, giant and supergiant stars lie above
the main sequence, while white dwarfs are below the main sequence.
• By carefully examining a star’s spectral lines, astronomers can determine whether that star is a main-sequence star, giant, supergiant, or white dwarf. Using the H-R diagram and the inverse square law, the star’s luminosity and distance can be found without measuring its stellar parallax.
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Key Ideas• Binary Stars: Binary stars, in which two stars are held in orbit
around each other by their mutual gravitational attraction, are surprisingly common. Those that can be resolved into two distinct star images by an Earth-based telescope are called visual binaries.
• Each of the two stars in a binary system moves in an elliptical orbit about the center of mass of the system.
• Binary stars are important because they allow astronomers to determine the masses of the two stars in a binary system. The masses can be computed from measurements of the orbital period and orbital dimensions of the system.
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Key Ideas• Mass-Luminosity Relation for Main-Sequence
Stars: Main-sequence stars are stars like the Sun but with different masses.
• The mass-luminosity relation expresses a direct correlation between mass and luminosity for main-sequence stars. The greater the mass of a main-sequence star, the greater its luminosity (and also the greater its radius and surface temperature).
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Key Ideas• Spectroscopic Observations of Binary Stars:
Some binaries can be detected and analyzed, even though the system may be so distant or the two stars so close together that the two star images cannot be resolved.
• A spectrum binary appears to be a single star but has a spectrum with the absorption lines for two distinctly different spectral types.
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Key Ideas• A spectroscopic binary has spectral lines that shift back and
forth in wavelength. This is caused by the Doppler effect, as the orbits of the stars carry them first toward then away from the Earth.
• An eclipsing binary is a system whose orbits are viewed nearly edge-on from the Earth, so that one star periodically eclipses the other. Detailed information about the stars in an eclipsing binary can be obtained from a study of the binary’s radial velocity curve and its light curve.