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Atoms
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Starlight
Starlight
Science has taken great strides in bridging the
immense distances and drawing conclusions by
using only the most abundant information that we
can get from stars - LIGHT.

It is the intricate intertwining of light
and matter (atoms) that yields a
plethora of knowledge and ideas
about not only stars but the universe
as well.
The Continuous Spectrum
We can produce a continuous
spectrum of visual light using any
object that behaves like a
blackbody.
A graph of the intensity of
the light along the various
visual wavelengths.

1.0
0.9

Intensity

0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3

350

400

450 500

550

650 700

Wavelength (λ) : [nm]

750

800
The Absorption Spectrum

A cooler, transparent (very thin) gas in front of a
source of a mostly continuous spectrum
produces an absorption spectrum -- a series
of dark spectral lines among the bright colors of
the continuous spectrum.
If light passes through a cloud of
cooler gas, the cloud selectively
absorbs light of certain wavelengths
depending
on
its
chemical
composition.

1.0
0.9

Intensity

0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3

350

400

450 500

550

650 700

Wavelength (λ) : [nm]

750

800
The Emission Spectrum

A hot, transparent gas produces an emission line
spectrum- a series of bright spectral lines
against a dark background.
If we just observe the light produced by a
hot low density gas we see a spectrum that
consists of a series of bright emission lines
on a dark background. These lines are
characteristic to the discrete chemical
composition of the gas.

1.0
0.9

Intensity

0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3

350

400

450 500

550

650 700

Wavelength (λ) : [nm]

750

800
The Interaction of Light and
Matter:
At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists
were perplexed by the failure of classical physics
to explain the characteristics of atomic spectra.
Why did atoms of a given element only emit
certain lines?
Why did those same atoms absorb only those
wavelengths that they emitted?
Proton
Neutron
Electron
Hydrogen

Helium
What is going on to produce
these spectra?
We now have an idea of the atom's
structure and energy levels as well as the
various types of spectra, so now we can
discuss how the atoms produce these
patterns or "light fingerprints."
Emission Spectra Creation
The electron in a higher energy state moves down to a lower energy
state and produces light with energy that corresponds exactly to the
specific energy difference between the two levels.

The spectra of this atom before and after the energy level transition.
Notice that the one color corresponds to one specific unique
transition within the atom.
Hydrogen
Absorption Spectra Creation
The electron in a lower energy state moves up to a higher energy
state and absorbs light with energy that corresponds exactly to the
specific energy difference between the two levels.
Hey there you cute atom, you!
Ways to excite an atom into a higher energy state.

Absorption: We just talked about this above with the upward
transitions of electrons. The atom can absorb light energy or
photon. Only a photon with exactly the right amount of energy
can move the electron from one level to another. If the photon
has too much or too little energy the atom cannot absorb it.
Collisional Excitation – (bang!): An atom can become excited
by a collision with another atom. If two (or more) atoms collide,
one or both may have electrons knocked (physically) into a
higher energy state. This happens very commonly in a hot gas
where atoms move very rapidly and collide vigorously because
of the hot temperature.
De-Excitation
Electron moves down? – De-excitation. The
technical term for the emission of a photon of light
with energy and wavelength that corresponds to
the energy difference between the energy levels
the electron moved downward between.
What happens? Light is given off!!
A “light fingerprint” is born.
Gotcha!
Stellar Spectra
Give an astronomer a small trickle of light and the
riddle will be solved. Science has decoded the
Rosetta Stone of stellar spectra. The spectrum of a
star tells us a great deal about such things as
temperature, motion, composition and much more.
A stellar spectra is like a "mug-shot, fingerprint,
and DNA test" rolled up into one science.

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Atoms starlight

  • 2. Starlight Science has taken great strides in bridging the immense distances and drawing conclusions by using only the most abundant information that we can get from stars - LIGHT. It is the intricate intertwining of light and matter (atoms) that yields a plethora of knowledge and ideas about not only stars but the universe as well.
  • 3. The Continuous Spectrum We can produce a continuous spectrum of visual light using any object that behaves like a blackbody.
  • 4. A graph of the intensity of the light along the various visual wavelengths. 1.0 0.9 Intensity 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 350 400 450 500 550 650 700 Wavelength (λ) : [nm] 750 800
  • 5. The Absorption Spectrum A cooler, transparent (very thin) gas in front of a source of a mostly continuous spectrum produces an absorption spectrum -- a series of dark spectral lines among the bright colors of the continuous spectrum.
  • 6. If light passes through a cloud of cooler gas, the cloud selectively absorbs light of certain wavelengths depending on its chemical composition. 1.0 0.9 Intensity 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 350 400 450 500 550 650 700 Wavelength (λ) : [nm] 750 800
  • 7. The Emission Spectrum A hot, transparent gas produces an emission line spectrum- a series of bright spectral lines against a dark background.
  • 8. If we just observe the light produced by a hot low density gas we see a spectrum that consists of a series of bright emission lines on a dark background. These lines are characteristic to the discrete chemical composition of the gas. 1.0 0.9 Intensity 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 350 400 450 500 550 650 700 Wavelength (λ) : [nm] 750 800
  • 9. The Interaction of Light and Matter: At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists were perplexed by the failure of classical physics to explain the characteristics of atomic spectra. Why did atoms of a given element only emit certain lines? Why did those same atoms absorb only those wavelengths that they emitted?
  • 12. What is going on to produce these spectra? We now have an idea of the atom's structure and energy levels as well as the various types of spectra, so now we can discuss how the atoms produce these patterns or "light fingerprints."
  • 13. Emission Spectra Creation The electron in a higher energy state moves down to a lower energy state and produces light with energy that corresponds exactly to the specific energy difference between the two levels. The spectra of this atom before and after the energy level transition. Notice that the one color corresponds to one specific unique transition within the atom.
  • 15. Absorption Spectra Creation The electron in a lower energy state moves up to a higher energy state and absorbs light with energy that corresponds exactly to the specific energy difference between the two levels.
  • 16. Hey there you cute atom, you! Ways to excite an atom into a higher energy state. Absorption: We just talked about this above with the upward transitions of electrons. The atom can absorb light energy or photon. Only a photon with exactly the right amount of energy can move the electron from one level to another. If the photon has too much or too little energy the atom cannot absorb it. Collisional Excitation – (bang!): An atom can become excited by a collision with another atom. If two (or more) atoms collide, one or both may have electrons knocked (physically) into a higher energy state. This happens very commonly in a hot gas where atoms move very rapidly and collide vigorously because of the hot temperature.
  • 17. De-Excitation Electron moves down? – De-excitation. The technical term for the emission of a photon of light with energy and wavelength that corresponds to the energy difference between the energy levels the electron moved downward between. What happens? Light is given off!! A “light fingerprint” is born.
  • 18. Gotcha! Stellar Spectra Give an astronomer a small trickle of light and the riddle will be solved. Science has decoded the Rosetta Stone of stellar spectra. The spectrum of a star tells us a great deal about such things as temperature, motion, composition and much more. A stellar spectra is like a "mug-shot, fingerprint, and DNA test" rolled up into one science.

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  1. Atoms – Planetary Model of the Atom: It is an astonishing idea and observation: All the matter around you (including you) is made of atoms, and all atoms are made of only three types of subatomic particle, protons, electrons, and neutrons. Furthermore, all protons are exactly the same as other protons, all neutrons are exactly the same as other neutrons, and all electrons are exactly the same as other electrons. Protons and neutrons have almost exactly the same mass. Electrons have a mass that is about 1/1836th the mass of a proton. (Even more outrageous is that nuclear physicists Gell-Mann and George Zweig independently proposed that even broken down electrons, protons, and neutrons into four "quarks" - beauty, charm, strange, truth) Ancient Greece is the birthplace of the "Atomic" Theory of matter. A Natural Philosopher (ancient world observers not experimenters), Democritus, proclaimed that matter was composed of incredibly small indestructible particles. The Greek word "atomos" was used to describe these particles ("atomos" loosely translates indestructible particle). Natural Philosophers did not experiment (as science does today), but made educated logical declarations based upon honed observations of the natural world. For example, Democritus inspected the sea coast beaches of the Ageian Sea (a large single structure) and noticed that the beaches were created by endless tiny grains of sand. Therefore, Democritus contended that matter itself could be composed of like tiny "atomos" that together formed the cohesiveness of matter. This was quite a departure from the "common-sense" ideas of the time that all matter was formed from the four substances of "earth," "wind," "fire," and "water." In fact, this was not a popular idea and did not last beyond the lives of the Greek philosophers. It was much later, in the 1800's, when this idea was revived, the Modern Nuclear Atomic Theory of Matter, by John Dalton. How do protons, neutrons, and electrons mostly differ? Electrons have a unit negative charge. Protons each have a positive charge. These charges are genuine electrical charges. Neutrons do not have any charge. So, what is "charge" and why do we say that an electron is "negatively charged," a proton is "positively charged," and a neutron is "neutral?" Charge is really used as observational nomenclature to separate out differing "electric" behaviors of these particles. For instance, physicists can run an electromagnetic experiment and the electron will be observed to move to the right, the proton to the left, and the neutron will be unaffected. So, we picked the proton being "positive" and since the electron did the opposite we say it is "negative." The neutron was not affected, thus "neutral." Even more interesting is the general shape of atoms with these three subatomic particles. The neutrons and protons are only found in the center of the atom - nucleus. The electrons are found "orbiting" ("orbiting" in quotes because it is not circling around in the classic sense, it is just found outside the nucleus) the nucleus in electron shells that are in different shapes at different distances (and hence different energies) from the nucleus. Shockingly, the atom is mostly empty space. That is a genuinely outrageous idea. Nearly all the mass of an atom is concentrated in the tiny nucleus. The mass of a proton or neutron is 1.6710-27 kg. The mass of an electron is 9.0510-31 kg. This number is a trillionth of a trillionth of a gram.  The differing arrangements of these three fundamental particles are responsible for what we call the periodic table of elements. We denote different elements by the number of protons they have in their respective nucleus.
  2. Continuous Spectrum: We can produce a continuous spectrum of visual light using any object that behaves like a blackbody. For instance, we can produce a situation with an incandescent light bulb containing a hot filament (heated piece of metallic substance). We can use either a prism or a spectrograph to separate out the various visual colors present within the light produced by the light bulb. The type of spectrum you see depends on the temperature of the thin gas. If the thin gas is cooler than the thermal source in the background, you see absorption lines.
  3. Continuous Spectrum: We can produce a continuous spectrum of visual light using any object that behaves like a blackbody. For instance, we can produce a situation with an incandescent light bulb containing a hot filament (heated piece of metallic substance). We can use either a prism or a spectrograph to separate out the various visual colors present within the light produced by the light bulb. The type of spectrum you see depends on the temperature of the thin gas. If the thin gas is cooler than the thermal source in the background, you see absorption lines.
  4. Continuous Spectrum: We can produce a continuous spectrum of visual light using any object that behaves like a blackbody. For instance, we can produce a situation with an incandescent light bulb containing a hot filament (heated piece of metallic substance). We can use either a prism or a spectrograph to separate out the various visual colors present within the light produced by the light bulb. The type of spectrum you see depends on the temperature of the thin gas. If the thin gas is cooler than the thermal source in the background, you see absorption lines.
  5. Some early models of the atom were very much like the current one -- the positive charges were concentrated in a central nucleus (along with neutrons) and the negative charged electrons were swarming around it. Unfortunately using classical physics ideas the atoms would be predicted to be unstable. Why? As the electrons move around the nucleus, they should radiate light and spiral into the positively charged nucleus in about 10-16 second. Well, this was obviously not the case. Why? Well, the atom is a very stable structure and they (and most of the universe) do not suddenly emit a huge amount of light and destroy themselves. In 1913 Niels Bohr provided an explanation of the atomic spectra that included some features of the currently accepted theory of the atoms structure. The overall idea about the structure and placement of the proton, neutron and electron did not change. However, the ideas about how, where, and why the electron orbited the nucleus did change. The negatively charged electrons orbit around the nucleus in certain stable specific levels (energy levels). The unique arrangement of an atom's energy levels depends on the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus and the number of electrons moving around the nucleus. Since every type of atom has a unique, discrete, and specific arrangement of the energy levels -- these atoms will produce a unique pattern (a "light fingerprint" if you will…) of absorption or emission lines as the electrons move between these energy levels.
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  7. First, let's discuss the emission spectra and the atom. When the electron within an atom drops from a higher to a lower energy level, it moves from a loosely bound level to one more tightly bound. The atom then has a surplus of energy -- the energy difference between the two levels -- that it can emit as a certain photon. In order to go to a lower energy level, the electron must lose energy of a certain specific amount. The atom releases the energy as a specific wavelength of light. The energy (wavelength) of the emitted light = the difference in energy between energy levels that the electron changed between
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  9. Now, let's discuss the absorption spectra and the atom. An absorption line is produced when light of the correct specific energy is absorbed by an atom (which corresponds to an exact energy level difference). This causes the electron to move to a higher energy level. The light had energy which corresponds to the difference in energy of the different levels. Since the energy levels within unique atoms are fixed -- the energy of the outward electron jumps are the same as the inward jumps. When the electron within an atom rises from a lower to a higher energy level, it moves from a tightly bound level to one more loosely bound. The atom absorbs the energy of a specific wavelength of light. The energy (wavelength) of the absorbed light = the difference in energy between energy levels that the electron changed between.
  10. Spectral Classification: The first usable calibration method was developed by a Harvard astronomer - Annie J. Cannon (Cannon camera?). After carefully inspecting over 250,000 stellar spectra (tedious but needed work), she was able to propose a Stellar Classification Scheme that was widely accepted. (Partially derived based on photographic paper types too?)