Reference no: EM133410224
Star Stuff
1. What is the process of star birth (molecular clouds, protostars, disk, jets)?
2. What is the limits of stellar mass low end and high end, and why there are limits?
3. What are Brown Dwarfs, degeneracy pressures?
4. What is the life of a low mass star, age and life of the sun, red giant phase, helium fusion and flash, planetary nebula, white dwarf?
5. What isvthe life of a high mass star, know term helium capture and CNO cycle?
6. What are supernova explosions, neutron stars, super nova remnant?
7. What is close binary mass exchange and Algol paradox?
Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
1. Whst is a white dwarf, electron degeneracy pressures, density of a teaspoon of white dwarf, size of 1.0 Msun white dwarf, White dwarf limit?
2. What is a white dwarf accretion disk, and know the difference between a nova and white dwarf supernova and a massive star super nova?
3. What are neutron star, what they are, neutron degeneracy pressure, how they were discovered, pulsars, accretion disc Xray bursters?
4. What is a black hole is, event horizon, Schwarzschild radius, singularity?
5. How is a black hole is formed (above 2 to 3 solar mass neutron stars), observational evidence of black holes?
6. What are gamma ray bursts and what happens when black holes merge?
Our Galaxy
1. What galaxy we live in, the different parts of the galaxy, (spiral arms, disk, bulge, halo), the size and thickness of the milky way?
2. How do stars orbit in the different regions of the galaxy?
3. How far is the sun from the center of galaxy?
What is the concept of the star-gas-cycle, hot bubble of ionized gas, shock fronts?
4. Why is the importance of atomic hydrogen gas and the 21-cm line emission?
5. Where are star created in the galaxy, ionization nebulae, spiral density waves?
6. What is population I and II stars and what they tell us about star formation?
7. How was the galaxy formed, protogalactic cloud?
8. What was the evidence of black hole at the center of the galaxy?