2011年度・東京大学・天文学教育研究センター・談話会

次回以降の談話会

第184回: 2011/10/13(木) 15:30-16:30

Gaston Folatelli 氏 (東京大学・IPMU)

"What spectra reveal of Type Ia Supernovae"

I will address the importance of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as astrophysical objects, 
and also as distance indicators for cosmology. Based on data from the Carnegie Supernova 
Project (CSP), I will describe how precision distances are obtained, with a detailed characterization 
of reddening. The role of optical spectroscopy in improving our understanding of the physical 
nature of these events will be addressed. In particular, I will show a recent finding of unburned 
material in a significant fraction of SNe Ia, and its implications on explosion physics.

第185回: 2011/10/17(月) 15:30-16:30

Wolfgang Gieren 氏 (Universidad de Concepcion)

"Improving the extragalactic distance scale with stellar distance indicators: The Araucaria Project"

I will review recent progress made in our project towards calibrating the classical Cepheid 
period-luminosity (PL) relation, both from observing Cepheid samples in nearby galaxies 
in optical and near-infrared bands, and by applying the Infrared Surface Brightness Technique 
to Cepheids in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. 
Evidence is presented that the K-band PL relation is universal (e.g. independent of the metallicity 
of the calibrating or target Cepheid samples), and a best absolute PL relation is presented 
which can be readily used to measure a precision distance to any galaxy containg classical Cepheids.

I will also review recent progress in using late-type eclipsing binary systems in the Magellanic Clouds 
for deriving distances of exquisite (3%) accuracy to the Clouds, setting a very accurate zero point 
for the distance scale. I will further present our recent determination of the first accurate dynamical 
masses of two classical Cepheids in the LMC which settle the Cepheid mass discrepancy problem 
and improve the physical knowledge of Cepheid stars as primary distance indicators.

Finally, I will highlight a new spectroscopic method to measure accurate distances
to spiral galaxies from their blue supergiant population, and demonstrate that this new 
technique yields distance results in very good agreement with Cepheids. 
Quantitative spectroscopy of blue supergiants is also an excellent means to establish correct, 
unbiased metallicity gradients in the disks of spiral galaxies 
which are an essential input for galaxy formation and evolution scenarios.

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予定

#日付講演者 (所属)タイトル
1842011/10/13(木)Gaston Folatelli 氏 (東京大学・IPMU)"What spectra reveal of Type Ia Supernovae"
1852011/10/17(月)Wolfgang Gieren 氏 (Universidad de Concepcion)"Improving the extragalactic distance scale with stellar distance indicators: The Araucaria Project"
-2011/11/24(木)高橋 英則 氏 (東京大学・天文センター)未定
-2011/12/01(木)松永 典之 氏 (東京大学・天文センター・木曽観測所)未定
-2011/12/15(木)松元 亮治 氏 (千葉大学)未定
-2011/xx/xx(x)西澤 淳 氏 (東京大学・IPMU)未定

終了した談話会

詳細はこちら: 平成23 (2011) 年度談話会

#日付講演者 (所属)タイトル
1772011/05/19(木)田村 陽一 氏 (東京大学・天文センター)「ASTE搭載用超伝導転移端センサ型ボロメータカメラとALMA初期科学運用」
1782011/06/16(木)Michael Richmond 氏 (Rochester Institute of Technology)"Looking for eclipsing RR Lyr stars in the MACHO database"
1792011/06/30(木)田中 賢幸 氏 (東京大学・IPMU)"A new method to identify AGNs and the nature of low-luminosity AGNs"
1802011/07/07(木)橋本 哲也 氏 (国立天文台)"A hint of AGN feedback: Shock heating of ISM induced by a jet in NGC 1068"
1812011/07/21(木)柏川 伸成 氏 (国立天文台)「AKB48 vs. NMB48 vs. SKE48, そして LAE45vs.LAE54」」, "Completing the Census of Lyα Emitters at the Reionization Epoch"
1822011/07/28(木)上塚 貴史 氏 (東京大学・天文センター)Mid-infrared spectral monitoring toward AGB stars - Probing the formation of circumstellar dust -
1832011/10/06(木)眞山 聡 氏 (総研大)「すばる+ALMA及びコンピュータシミュレーションで探る連星系原始惑星系円盤」"Subaru + ALMA Observations and numerical simulations of Protoplanetary Disks in a Young Multiple star"

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