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Galaxy Photometry
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This activity asks students   to observe the images of three spiral galaxies of different surface brightnesses. Each of the loaded images is active in the sense that you can place a rectangular aperture on them and determine the flux. The flux through the aperture equals the galaxy flux + the sky flux. Hence to determine the galaxy flux you need to put an aperture on the sky background (where there is little or no galaxy light) and measure that.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/flux.html
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Galaxies
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Interactive Simulation
= Laboratory
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- Educators
- Learners
- application/java
- text/html
- video/mpeg
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Keywords:
activity, flux, galaxies, galaxy, photometry
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created June 15, 2005 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:
August 17, 2005 by Marc Gagne
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AIP Format
University of Oregon Physics Department, , WWW Document, (http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/flux.html).
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University of Oregon Physics Department, Galaxy Photometry, <http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/flux.html>.
APA Format
University of Oregon Physics Department. (n.d.). Galaxy Photometry. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/flux.html
Chicago Format
University of Oregon Physics Department. Galaxy Photometry. http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/flux.html (accessed 18 April 2024).
MLA Format
University of Oregon Physics Department. Galaxy Photometry. 18 Apr. 2024 <http://zebu.uoregon.edu/nsf/flux.html>.
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@misc{ Author = "University of Oregon Physics Department", Title = {Galaxy Photometry}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {18 April 2024}, Year = {} }
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