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Midterm Study
Lateral surface area of cylinder 1,
What area of a grazing incidence ...,
Projected area at grazing inciden...
32
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FROM REVIEW: Thermal Raduation & Blackbody
Planck spectrum 1,
Wien s law 2,
Stefan boltzmann law 3
5
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FROM REVIEW: Synchrotron Radiation
Characteristic sychrotron frequen...,
If frequency increases what must ...,
Synchrotron power 3
6
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FROM REVIEW: Inverse Compton
Scattered photon energy 1,
Thomson vs klein nishina 2,
Particle energy loss mechanisms s...
6
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FROM REVIEW: Gas Proportional Counter
What is gas proportional counter 1,
Physics inside detector 2,
Blank 3
5
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FROM REVIEW: Mechanism To Object
Connect each mechanism to object 1
1
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Big Picture/Intuition
What are the two fundamental clas...,
How can you tell thermal vs non t...,
What physical condition produces ...
5
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Thermal Radiation (Blackbody)
Planck function 1,
Spectrum shape 2,
When do you use planck function 3
7
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Radiative Transfer/Absorption
How does photon intensity change ...,
Equation that governs photon abso...,
What is optical depth physically 3
11
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Thermal Bremsstrahlung
Why does emissivity scale as dens...,
How do you determine plasma tempe...,
How do you compute luminosity fro...
8
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Synchrotron Radiation
What must be present from synchro...,
Why does synchrotron cooling remo...,
Synchrotron cooling time 3
8
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Inverse Compton (IC)
Core idea of ic 1,
Energy boost 2,
Power scaling 3
7
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Photon Interactions (Detection Physics)
Photoelectric absorption 1,
Dominant interaction at 5kev 2,
Compton scattering 3
9
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Telescopes/ Collecting Area
Physical surface area of one cyli...,
How do you compute total physical...,
What is effective area for grazin...
6
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Identify radiation Process By Spectrum Shape
Match spectral shape to physical ...,
Match object to each 2
2
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EXAM 2 Review
X ray sources in milky way 1,
X ray sources in milky way 2,
X ray sources in milky way 3
37
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Homework #5
What emission mechanism produces ...,
What observational signature sugg...,
Why does synchrotron emission pro...
25
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Homework #6
1 accretion physics 1,
1 accretion physics 2,
1 accretion physics energy releas...
35
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Accretion Onto Compact Objects
What is gravitational potential e...,
How do you estimate temperature o...,
Express accretion heated temperat...
8
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X-Ray Sources And Binarity
Why are many galactic x ray sourc...,
What kind of photometric evidence...,
How can doppler shift observation...
7
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Cen X-ray Pulsar And Binary Evidence
Explanation of 48 second x ray pu...,
What causes 2087 day periodic var...,
Observational evidence that suppo...
6
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X-ray Pulse Periods: NS Or WD
What does x ray pulse period repr...,
Do x ray pulses of few seconds pr...
2
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Neutron Star Masses From Eclipsing X-ray Pulsat Binaries
What observations needed to deter...,
How are these observations used t...,
What do observations of eclipsing...
4
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Hercules X-1
What is interpretation of 124 sec...,
What causes 17 day periodic varia...,
What observations provide strong ...
6
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Mass Transfer & Luminosity In X-ray Binaries
What are two principle mechanisms...,
Roche lobe overflow 2,
Stellar wind accretion 3
5
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Eddington Limit
Physical significance of eddingto...,
Derive eddington limit with the t...,
Expression of eddington luminosity 3
5
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X-ray Burstd And Neutron Staf Radius Estimates
What are typical bargain properti...,
Spectral properties observed in x...,
Key assumption allowing us to est...
4
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Type 1 X-ray Bursts Vs Xray Pulsars
If total energy in type 1 bursts ...,
Why might the thermonucleaf burst...,
Why don t we observe x ray buster...
3
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Cyg X-1 And Black Hole Candidates
Why does rapid chaotic x ray vari...,
What does single lined spectrospc...,
How do inclination constraints im...
5
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Active Galaxies & Black Holr Accretion Efficiency
What produces x ray emission in n...,
How do x ray luminosities compare...,
Widely accretion explanation for ...
4
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Black Hole Model For Active Galaciez (QSOs & Seyfert 1)
How can assuming an activity gala...,
What black hole mass is required ...,
Is rapid x ray variability observ...
6
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