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NOTES: Characteristics of Galaxies
Classification: The Hubble Tuning ForkElliptical: E0--E7 Spheroids, E0 is spherical, E7 least spherical. Population II stars, little dust, almost no star formation.Normal Spirals: Sa, Sb, Sc Sa is most tightly wound, Sc least. Population I stars in disk, Pop. II in nucleus. Dust and star formation in disk.Barred Spirals: Sba, Sbb, Sbc Have bars across nucleus, Same winding rules as normal spirals. Same content as normal.Irregulars: No definite shape. Ex. Large and small Magellanic clouds. Dominate universe by number, although generally smaller. Star formation, but less dust than disks.Peculiar: (Pec) Have a definite form, but with peculiarities. Radio jets or other strangeness.
Which implies the existence of dark matter(not seen). About half is ordinary (baryonic), but other half is exotic. WIMPS, etc.?
Distance: Standard candles--Cepheids, Supernova type Ia, standard galaxies like brightest spiral or Supergiant ellipticals in Cluster cores. If all else fails, Hubble's Law.
Hubble's Law: v = Ho d. Velocity from redshift is proportional to distance. Hubble’s constant = Ho = 70 km/s/Mpc (Friedmann in early ‘1990’s).
Observations of redshiftfirst done byMilton Humason,a janitor at Mt. WilsonObservatory (working forEdwin Hubble.
NOTES: Where are you?
You are here-->Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy...The Local Group: a galaxy 'poor' cluster of 27 galaxies: three large spirals, 12 dwarf ellipticals, 4 ellipticals, and 8 Irr. Dust in the plane of the Milky Way may obscure more. The Local (Virgo) Supercluster: Pancake-shaped. Composed of the Virgo Cluster (a 'rich' cluster) and about 100 other clusters including Local Grp. We are falling toward Virgo Cluster, which has three supergiant ellipticals (M87 contains accretion disk indicating BH or WH in center--a quadrillion solar masses!)The Pisces-Cetus Complex: may include 400 rich (and lots of poor) clusters. Brent Tully. Is the Universe homogeneous?God's Bubble Bath: Galaxy superclusters seem to from in bubble structures and filaments with Voids 100-500 million LY across. Some call this the Cellular Universe.The Great Wall and The Stick Man--supercluster structures.The Great Attractor--hidden by Milky Way Dust in Centaurus. 1017 Mo! May be dense giant supercluster with lots of dark matter. Tens of thousands of galaxies are falling into it, ignoring the Hubble Flow.
The local group—our galaxy cluster--a 'poor' cluster of 27 galaxies: three large spirals, 12 dwarf ellipticals, 4 ellipticals, and 8 Irr. Dust in the plane of the Milky Way may obscure more.
The Local (Virgo) Supercluster: Pancake-shaped. Composed of the Virgo Cluster (a 'rich' cluster) and about 100 other clusters including Local Grp. We are falling toward Virgo Cluster, which has three supergiant ellipticals.
M87 in Virgo contains accretion disk indicating BH or WH in center--a quadrillion solar masses!BH is 2 billion solar masses. Accretion disk is shown on the right.
In core:
An X-ray image of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 2142, taken with the Chandra Observatory. This cluster is clearly elongated, and is believed to be the result of a recent merger between two clusters which have fallen together along the long axis.
Galaxy superclusters seem to form in bubble structures and filaments with Voids 100-500 million LY across. Some call this the Cellular Universe.
God's Bubble Bath: the quantum foamthe universe may have expanded fromminute distortions in space-time.
Great Attractor: hidden by Milky Way Dust in Centaurus. 1017 Msun! May be dense giant supercluster with lots of dark matter. Tens of thousands of galaxies are falling into it, ignoring the Hubble Flow. Alan Dressler, Sandy Faber, and The Seven Samurai from Harvard discovered it.