PPT-Active Galaxies

Lesson Objectives To appreciate that some galaxies emit far more energy at some wavelengths that can be explained simply in terms of starlight To recall the types of active galaxies To show an understanding of the mechanism for producing large quantities of radiation from active galaxies. Thorsten Naab . MPA, . Garching. . What regulates galaxy formation? . Leiden, April, 22. nd. How do massive galaxies get their gas and stars?. Gas accretion involves dissipation – energy can be radiated away . The Cosmic Time Machine. Astronomical telescopes can’t help viewing the past.. . Distance and time are always mixed in astronomical observations.. The finite speed of light means that we always see things after they have happened–a delay of 8 minutes for the Sun and about 12 billion years for the most distant galaxies we can observe. In other words,. Adam Leroy. National Radio Astronomy Observatory. HERITAGE (. Meixner. et al.). Dust in Dwarf Galaxies. Adam Leroy. National Radio Astronomy Observatory. HERITAGE (. Meixner. et al.). SAGE (. Meixner. D.J. Pisano. (West Virginia University). Why study galaxy environment?. Nature vs. Nurture. Can they be distinguished?. What does the environment do to a galaxy?. What would a galaxy look like without any environmental influence?. With a wide-field multi-IFU spectrograph. Cluster studies. Clusters provide large samples of galaxies in a moderate field. Unique perspective on the interaction of galaxies with their environment. As they operate much as a closed box, they are useful as tracers of galaxy evolution and of cosmology. Galaxy Morphology and Environment. Main relation – . E’s more common in clusters than field. f(E. ) = fraction of ellipticals . f(Sp. ) = fraction of spirals. regular, symmetric cluster – . f(E. H.-W. Rix IMPRS Galaxies Course March 11, 2011. Goal:. Determine . n. *. (M. *. ,. t. age. ,[Fe. /H],. R. ). . for a population of galaxies. How many stars of what mass and metallicity . formed when and where in galaxies?. The Hubble Tuning-Fork Diagram. This is the traditional scheme for classifying galaxies:. Elliptical Galaxies. Elliptical galaxies. have smooth, round distributions of stars. They resemble globular clusters, except they are much larger. They . These are called . active. . galaxies. .. . Active Galaxies and Quasars. By looking far away and back in time, astronomers have discovered:. The origin of active galaxy energy sources and outbursts were closely related to the formation and history of galaxies.. around Abell 370, . a galaxy cluster at z = 0.37. International SKA . Forum 2010 . Philip Lah. A New Golden Age for Radio Astronomy. Collaborators:. . Frank Briggs (ANU). . Michael Pracy . . Loners. Interactions were once . believed to be unimportant . and rare.. Galaxies were thought to . be . isolated loners. , well . separated from one . another . a. nd scarcely interacting.. Au Contraire!. Jeremy . Harwood. YERAC 2011. Background Image courtesy of NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al.; MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al.; ESO/WFI. What are radio galaxies?. Type of active galaxy. Fanaroff and Riley class I. .. 1. First spiral nebula found in 1845 by the Earl of . Rosse. . Speculated it was beyond our Galaxy.. 1920 - "Great Debate" between Shapley and Curtis on whether spiral nebulae were galaxies beyond our own. Settled in 1924 when Edwin . The Hubble Deep Field. 10 day exposure –field located in the Big Dipper. Edwin Hubble. Edwin . Hubble. Hubble’s Galaxy Classification . Spiral Galaxies. galaxies like the Milky Way with arcing structures lying in a plane and emanating from the nuclear bulge.