天文学导论报告.docx

1、第13章第56題Go to the European Space Agency’s Gaia (Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics) mission website (/science/gaia). Has Gaia been launched? How will it help astronomers determine the distances to more stars? Why will it map the stars from an L2 orbit (see Connections 4.2)?回答：Gaia has been launched.Gaia will create an extraordinarily precise three-dimensional map of more than a thousand million stars throughout our Galaxy and beyond by mapping their motions, luminosity, temperature and composition in order to help astronomers determine the distances to more stars.Because It offers a clearer view of the cosmos than an orbit around Earth, which would result in the spacecraft passing in and out of Earths shadow and causing it to heat up and cool down, distorting its view. Free from this restriction and far away from the heat radiated by Earth, L2 provides a much more stable viewpoint.对本网络资源的学习与研究总结：I learned something about the Gaia. This website introduces the objective, mission, spacecraft, journey, history and some features about Gaia.2、第13章第57題GototheEclipsingBinaryStarsLabwebsiteat/naap/ebs/ebs.html. Click on “Eclipsing Binary Simulator.” Select preset Example 1, in which the two stars are identical. The animation will run with inclination 90° and show a 50 percent eclipse. What happens when you slowly change your viewing angle to the system—the inclination; how does this change the eclipse? At what value of inclination do you no longer see eclipses? What does the system look like at 0°? Reset the inclination to 90° and adjust the separationof the two stars. How does the light curve change when the separation is larger or smaller? Now make the two stars different. Change star 2 so that its radius is 3.0 R￡ and its temperature is 4000 K. At what value of inclination do you no longer see eclipses? What types of eclipsing binary systems do you think are the easiest to detect?回答：When I slowly change the inclination, the eclipse decrease. I no longer