1 00:00:00,090 --> 00:00:02,490 The following content is provided under a Creative 2 00:00:02,490 --> 00:00:04,030 Commons license. 3 00:00:04,030 --> 00:00:06,330 Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare 4 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:10,720 continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,320 To make a donation or view additional materials 6 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,280 from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,040 at ocw.mit.edu. 8 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,060 MARK HARTMAN: Remember that every detector is not 9 00:00:24,060 --> 00:00:25,770 sensitive to every kind of light. 10 00:00:25,770 --> 00:00:30,450 In particular, when I shine this remote control at you, 11 00:00:30,450 --> 00:00:33,630 you don't see the light because your eyes 12 00:00:33,630 --> 00:00:36,690 aren't sensitive to the photons that this emitter is 13 00:00:36,690 --> 00:00:37,260 putting out. 14 00:00:37,260 --> 00:00:38,718 This emitter is putting out photons 15 00:00:38,718 --> 00:00:41,010 that are a little bit less than two electron volts-- 16 00:00:41,010 --> 00:00:43,770 well, I think a little bit less than 1.8 electron volts, 17 00:00:43,770 --> 00:00:47,146 and your eyes don't pick up that energy. 18 00:00:47,146 --> 00:00:49,020 When those photons hit the back of your eyes, 19 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:51,100 it doesn't send a little signal to your brain, 20 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:56,274 but if I shine this at our projector, 21 00:00:56,274 --> 00:00:57,690 if you look on the screen, you can 22 00:00:57,690 --> 00:01:02,130 see that we can tell that there is a little light flashing. 23 00:01:02,130 --> 00:01:04,800 In that case, that detector is sensitive to photons that 24 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,300 have that low of an energy. 25 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:11,940 However, if I were to look at something with a telescope, 26 00:01:11,940 --> 00:01:15,210 I'm not always going to get the same number of photons 27 00:01:15,210 --> 00:01:16,770 that my source puts out. 28 00:01:16,770 --> 00:01:19,650 I'm putting out photons here, but when I look at it, 29 00:01:19,650 --> 00:01:21,480 I'm not collecting that. 30 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,562 It's not that there's no flux there 31 00:01:23,562 --> 00:01:25,020 or that there's no flux to collect. 32 00:01:25,020 --> 00:01:26,760 I'm just not sensitive to it. 33 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,070 So we are going to put together a little model that's 34 00:01:29,070 --> 00:01:30,900 going to help us answer this question-- 35 00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:36,360 how is-- and again, I want you to write 36 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,950 a couple of these notes down. 37 00:01:37,950 --> 00:01:43,890 So today is the 11th, and it is about 10:10. 38 00:01:43,890 --> 00:02:05,170 How is the light we record different from what 39 00:02:05,170 --> 00:02:06,685 the source emits? 40 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:17,880 And we're going to draw a little diagram. 41 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,760 Again, we're going to have-- 42 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,740 and here's our source. 43 00:02:22,740 --> 00:02:25,230 It could be a cloud like we said with the Orion nebula. 44 00:02:25,230 --> 00:02:27,570 It could be some stars. 45 00:02:27,570 --> 00:02:30,840 It's putting out light in all directions. 46 00:02:35,350 --> 00:02:38,920 Some of that light happens to be moving 47 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:43,072 towards us, and over here-- 48 00:02:43,072 --> 00:02:44,905 I want you to leave some space in the middle 49 00:02:44,905 --> 00:02:47,180 because we're going to come back to this in a second. 50 00:02:47,180 --> 00:02:48,596 Over here, we've got our detector. 51 00:02:53,970 --> 00:02:57,039 It's this grid of pixels. 52 00:02:57,039 --> 00:02:59,580 We said that the detectors are at the back of our telescopes. 53 00:02:59,580 --> 00:03:03,150 So our telescope is going to collect some of this light. 54 00:03:03,150 --> 00:03:05,680 It's going to keep going this way. 55 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,600 Some of it is going to get here to our detector. 56 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:19,090 Now, if we were to grab all the light from right here-- 57 00:03:19,090 --> 00:03:20,460 if we were to take this light-- 58 00:03:23,310 --> 00:03:27,300 if we were to take all the light that we could just 59 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:30,780 grab from right there, and if we could somehow 60 00:03:30,780 --> 00:03:39,650 grab that and look at it and we wanted to look at its spectrum, 61 00:03:39,650 --> 00:03:40,910 we look at the intensity. 62 00:03:40,910 --> 00:03:43,310 We look at a bar chart of intensity versus energy. 63 00:03:45,890 --> 00:03:51,330 And in particular, we could say we'd look at red, yellow, 64 00:03:51,330 --> 00:03:52,700 green, and blue. 65 00:04:01,710 --> 00:04:07,380 This histogram tells us what kind of light 66 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:10,800 is the source giving out, but the only thing 67 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,860 that we can measure is what our detector tells us. 68 00:04:14,860 --> 00:04:18,880 So from the detector, we actually 69 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:26,660 would get a different intensity versus energy graph-- 70 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:30,920 red, yellow, green, and blue. 71 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:32,400 What we're going to do-- 72 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,231 we are going to represent-- 73 00:04:34,231 --> 00:04:35,105 we're going to model. 74 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:48,580 We're going to make a model, and each group 75 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:56,120 is one part of the source or detector. 76 00:05:00,180 --> 00:05:04,370 So half of us are going to be the source. 77 00:05:04,370 --> 00:05:06,460 We're going to be one part of the source, 78 00:05:06,460 --> 00:05:09,860 and we're going to give out light. 79 00:05:09,860 --> 00:05:14,570 And then one part of us is going to be 80 00:05:14,570 --> 00:05:18,620 one pixel of the detector. 81 00:05:18,620 --> 00:05:22,430 We're going to look at a thing called 82 00:05:22,430 --> 00:05:41,630 detector response, and what detector response means is 83 00:05:41,630 --> 00:05:51,650 we record only part of the light, 84 00:05:51,650 --> 00:05:54,960 and that depends on what the energy of the photons are. 85 00:06:03,170 --> 00:06:05,150 So here we have-- 86 00:06:05,150 --> 00:06:06,800 I've reversed them. 87 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,860 So here we have the source from our flat spectrum. 88 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:12,050 This is what the spectrum looks like when 89 00:06:12,050 --> 00:06:13,310 the source produced it. 90 00:06:13,310 --> 00:06:14,390 It's flat. 91 00:06:14,390 --> 00:06:18,260 It's just bars that go straight across, but our detector-- 92 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:23,595 what is different about our detector, what it shows to us? 93 00:06:23,595 --> 00:06:25,050 AUDIENCE: Took out some. 94 00:06:25,050 --> 00:06:26,258 MARK HARTMAN: Say that again. 95 00:06:26,258 --> 00:06:28,084 AUDIENCE: Took out some of the photons. 96 00:06:28,084 --> 00:06:30,000 MARK HARTMAN: It took out some of the photons? 97 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,047 AUDIENCE: It didn't collect all the photons. 98 00:06:32,047 --> 00:06:33,880 MARK HARTMAN: It didn't detect, or it didn't 99 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,160 collect all of the photons. 100 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,680 They were there, but the detector wasn't-- 101 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,790 it's not as sensitive to blue light as it is to red light. 102 00:06:42,790 --> 00:06:44,470 So even though the source gave out 103 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:46,510 a spectrum that looked like this, 104 00:06:46,510 --> 00:06:49,840 the detector gives us in our measurement 105 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:52,370 a spectrum that looks like that. 106 00:06:52,370 --> 00:06:53,800 So let me ask you this. 107 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,300 What if I had-- 108 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,490 in the same way, this is the response of our eyes. 109 00:07:00,490 --> 00:07:03,080 Our eyes are less sensitive to blue light. 110 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,650 So if we had a spectrum where the same amount of blue 111 00:07:05,650 --> 00:07:09,280 was put out, it would look like a lower intensity to us. 112 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:12,220 I want you to just give a prediction, 113 00:07:12,220 --> 00:07:15,400 and I just want you to sketch in your notebook what would 114 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,510 a flat spectrum look like if, instead of having this detector 115 00:07:19,510 --> 00:07:21,760 response, maybe we had a different detector that 116 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,680 was made out of a different material? 117 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,640 And instead, we kept two out of five red, 118 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:33,160 three out of five yellow, four out of five green, 119 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,170 and five out of five blue? 120 00:07:35,170 --> 00:07:37,450 Say our detector was sensitive to blue, 121 00:07:37,450 --> 00:07:39,430 and it detected everything, but it 122 00:07:39,430 --> 00:07:41,570 wasn't very sensitive to red. 123 00:07:41,570 --> 00:07:46,240 So in this case, let's look at what we came out with. 124 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,302 What is different between these two graphs? 125 00:07:49,302 --> 00:07:51,110 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]. 126 00:07:51,110 --> 00:07:53,525 MARK HARTMAN: You may have to squeeze over a little bit. 127 00:07:53,525 --> 00:07:55,765 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]. 128 00:07:55,765 --> 00:07:57,390 MARK HARTMAN: So how would you describe 129 00:07:57,390 --> 00:08:00,430 the difference between these two energy histograms 130 00:08:00,430 --> 00:08:02,040 or spectrums-- 131 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,534 spectra? 132 00:08:03,534 --> 00:08:04,469 AUDIENCE: Spectra. 133 00:08:04,469 --> 00:08:06,510 MARK HARTMAN: It's giving us the number of counts 134 00:08:06,510 --> 00:08:11,280 in one second that were emitted, and then this 135 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,260 is the number of counts in one second 136 00:08:13,260 --> 00:08:15,450 that we collected at our detector. 137 00:08:15,450 --> 00:08:16,980 We didn't collect all of them. 138 00:08:16,980 --> 00:08:19,480 So how would you describe the difference between these using 139 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,230 the words intensity and energy? 140 00:08:24,194 --> 00:08:26,955 AUDIENCE: The intensity of the first one is higher. 141 00:08:26,955 --> 00:08:28,580 MARK HARTMAN: The intensity of this one 142 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:30,530 is higher because the bars are higher. 143 00:08:30,530 --> 00:08:32,850 The y-axis measures in density. 144 00:08:32,850 --> 00:08:33,650 So what we detect-- 145 00:08:33,650 --> 00:08:36,770 we detect less intensity. 146 00:08:36,770 --> 00:08:38,139 What else? 147 00:08:38,139 --> 00:08:40,610 AUDIENCE: And there was more energy in the first one, 148 00:08:40,610 --> 00:08:43,610 and there's less energy in the second. 149 00:08:43,610 --> 00:08:46,550 We collected less energy. 150 00:08:46,550 --> 00:08:48,768 MARK HARTMAN: Which axis here has to do with energy? 151 00:08:48,768 --> 00:08:52,050 AUDIENCE: The one with the photons. 152 00:08:52,050 --> 00:08:53,550 MARK HARTMAN: The x-axis, right? 153 00:08:53,550 --> 00:08:57,400 So I think you're saying here at high energies, or blue photons, 154 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,590 there was a lot that were put out, 155 00:08:59,590 --> 00:09:03,270 but we didn't actually collect a whole lot. 156 00:09:03,270 --> 00:09:05,370 Is that what you're trying to say? 157 00:09:05,370 --> 00:09:06,150 What else? 158 00:09:06,150 --> 00:09:06,886 Azeith? 159 00:09:06,886 --> 00:09:09,562 AUDIENCE: The intensity is low for yellow and green. 160 00:09:09,562 --> 00:09:13,450 When it started off, was high, and when 161 00:09:13,450 --> 00:09:17,350 it got to the detector, it equaled out. 162 00:09:17,350 --> 00:09:20,500 MARK HARTMAN: So even though our source put out more yellow-- 163 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:22,870 or, I'm sorry-- put out more green-- 164 00:09:22,870 --> 00:09:27,220 or put out more blue than green and yellow, what we detect 165 00:09:27,220 --> 00:09:31,000 is that it actually collects or records a little bit more 166 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,700 green and yellow than it does blue. 167 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:34,570 Well, that's great. 168 00:09:34,570 --> 00:09:37,390 Doesn't that screw us? 169 00:09:37,390 --> 00:09:39,850 If we're interested in what's physically going on 170 00:09:39,850 --> 00:09:42,940 at the object, but we record this, 171 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:46,012 how is that useful at all? 172 00:09:46,012 --> 00:09:47,470 How can we get around this problem? 173 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:54,098 David, what do you think? 174 00:09:54,098 --> 00:09:56,650 AUDIENCE: The ratio is from what you 175 00:09:56,650 --> 00:10:03,040 have to receive to get the source's actual emissions. 176 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,070 MARK HARTMAN: If I know how my detector responds, 177 00:10:06,070 --> 00:10:09,460 if I know that it only collects two out of five or five 178 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:12,550 out of five, I can take my measurements, 179 00:10:12,550 --> 00:10:14,710 and I can kind of turn it back into this. 180 00:10:17,350 --> 00:10:20,920 So I have to know exactly what my detector is doing 181 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,860 to be able to then reconstruct or figure out what's really 182 00:10:23,860 --> 00:10:25,090 going on over here. 183 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,380 So I want you guys to take a break, and I want you to-- 184 00:10:32,380 --> 00:10:34,970 For each group, you guys are the source, 185 00:10:34,970 --> 00:10:38,930 you guys are the cloud, you guys are the detector. 186 00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:42,100 So I want you to figure out who's 187 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:44,679 going to be responsible for red light, red photons, who's 188 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,720 going to be responsible for yellow photons, who's 189 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,180 going to be responsible for green, 190 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:49,971 and who's going to be responsible for blue. 191 00:10:53,064 --> 00:10:53,980 Same thing over there. 192 00:10:56,530 --> 00:10:58,830 And then I want you to add this to your notes. 193 00:11:02,166 --> 00:11:07,076 [SIDE CONVERSATION] 194 00:11:22,810 --> 00:11:24,940 So I want you guys to add this onto your notes. 195 00:11:24,940 --> 00:11:30,256 We're going to put on interstellar material. 196 00:11:35,660 --> 00:11:38,840 Interstellar just means in between the stars. 197 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,340 So if we're looking at another star, 198 00:11:40,340 --> 00:11:42,410 we're looking at interstellar material. 199 00:11:42,410 --> 00:11:44,400 If you're looking at another galaxy, 200 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,250 you may be looking at intergalactic material, 201 00:11:47,250 --> 00:11:49,850 but we've still got our source. 202 00:11:49,850 --> 00:11:52,830 It's still sending out photons in all directions. 203 00:11:52,830 --> 00:11:56,960 The photons move this way, some of them, 204 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,990 and we're looking first at the-- 205 00:11:59,990 --> 00:12:03,170 if we were to grab these photons and look at the intensity 206 00:12:03,170 --> 00:12:04,340 right there. 207 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:06,050 Then we've got some photons that go 208 00:12:06,050 --> 00:12:10,625 through here, some photons that get stopped here. 209 00:12:21,620 --> 00:12:23,450 So some photons get stopped there. 210 00:12:23,450 --> 00:12:27,890 So now we're going to actually put in another graph, 211 00:12:27,890 --> 00:12:32,080 and we're going to say, let's look what do these photons-- 212 00:12:38,590 --> 00:12:40,841 so first we're going to look at the source. 213 00:12:40,841 --> 00:12:42,340 Then we're going to look at what the 214 00:12:42,340 --> 00:12:45,490 photons after they've passed through the cloud-- 215 00:12:45,490 --> 00:12:50,680 what do those look like in intensity 216 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:52,300 as a function of energy? 217 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:54,760 And then those-- the cloud-- 218 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,700 that light gets to the detector, and then the detector 219 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:00,197 is going to say, all right, what do I detect? 220 00:13:00,197 --> 00:13:01,780 So in each of these cases, we're going 221 00:13:01,780 --> 00:13:04,510 to look at what is the spectrum of the light 222 00:13:04,510 --> 00:13:07,240 just after the source, just after the interstellar 223 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,825 material, and then by the time it gets to the detector. 224 00:13:12,630 --> 00:13:15,310 So I know you guys are in the middle of predicting, 225 00:13:15,310 --> 00:13:20,060 but let's take a look at what we actually had. 226 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:22,550 So if everybody needs to scoot in a little bit, 227 00:13:22,550 --> 00:13:26,510 here we had our source from our flat spectrum. 228 00:13:26,510 --> 00:13:29,720 We had 20 photons of each color. 229 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,355 What happened after it went through the cloud? 230 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,640 Oh, I wanted us to keep the same scale, but we'll see. 231 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,106 So what happened when it went through the cloud? 232 00:13:43,106 --> 00:13:44,600 AUDIENCE: Which one's the cloud? 233 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:45,475 AUDIENCE: The middle. 234 00:13:45,475 --> 00:13:47,050 MARK HARTMAN: So this is just-- 235 00:13:47,050 --> 00:13:50,410 so this represents this light that 236 00:13:50,410 --> 00:13:51,940 just came out of the source. 237 00:13:51,940 --> 00:13:57,280 The middle represents the light after it came out of the cloud, 238 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,790 and then the right hand one represents the light 239 00:13:59,790 --> 00:14:01,540 that we actually record from the detector. 240 00:14:05,110 --> 00:14:06,590 So in this case-- 241 00:14:06,590 --> 00:14:07,090 good. 242 00:14:07,090 --> 00:14:07,840 Nice. 243 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,340 Good work. 244 00:14:09,340 --> 00:14:14,950 So what happened to the light that came from the source? 245 00:14:14,950 --> 00:14:19,170 After it went through the cloud, how was it different? 246 00:14:19,170 --> 00:14:22,960 AUDIENCE: The could collects some photons from the source. 247 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,980 MARK HARTMAN: Use the word energy in that sentence. 248 00:14:25,980 --> 00:14:32,920 AUDIENCE: The cloud collects some energy from the source. 249 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,390 MARK HARTMAN: Does it collect energy as red photons? 250 00:14:37,390 --> 00:14:41,970 Does it stop photons with energies that we see as red? 251 00:14:41,970 --> 00:14:43,170 AUDIENCE: No. 252 00:14:43,170 --> 00:14:47,770 It only collects green and blue. 253 00:14:47,770 --> 00:14:52,060 MARK HARTMAN: So the cloud collects or stops 254 00:14:52,060 --> 00:14:53,260 some green and some blue. 255 00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:55,870 This is what was let through. 256 00:14:55,870 --> 00:14:59,230 So we started off with all the same, but when we let through, 257 00:14:59,230 --> 00:15:02,320 we see that blue is let through less. 258 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,260 So we went from 20 photons per second down to-- 259 00:15:06,260 --> 00:15:07,400 what is this, 12? 260 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,480 12 photons per second. 261 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,480 So then, of course, we can't go out in space 262 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,530 and grab that light. 263 00:15:14,530 --> 00:15:19,390 We still have to grab what we see from the detector. 264 00:15:19,390 --> 00:15:22,570 Now, what is the difference from the detector? 265 00:15:22,570 --> 00:15:25,480 It's hard to tell because they expanded their scale 266 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,530 and put 0 to 20 all the way up here, but let's compare. 267 00:15:29,530 --> 00:15:36,940 We've got 20 counts of red that we got through the cloud, 268 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:40,420 but we detect 20 counts of red. 269 00:15:40,420 --> 00:15:44,200 Then we only detect 12 counts of yellow, 270 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,020 but there were 20 counts of yellow before. 271 00:15:47,020 --> 00:15:48,950 So what happened to some of the yellow light? 272 00:15:48,950 --> 00:15:50,420 AUDIENCE: It got stopped. 273 00:15:50,420 --> 00:15:53,850 It didn't get collected by the detector. 274 00:15:53,850 --> 00:15:56,070 MARK HARTMAN: It didn't get detected. 275 00:15:56,070 --> 00:15:59,110 The photons hit there, but it didn't get detected. 276 00:15:59,110 --> 00:16:00,135 What about green light? 277 00:16:00,135 --> 00:16:01,510 What happened to the green light? 278 00:16:01,510 --> 00:16:06,090 Here we had 16, and here we have 10. 279 00:16:10,850 --> 00:16:12,280 AUDIENCE: It reduced even more. 280 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:13,363 MARK HARTMAN: It did what? 281 00:16:13,363 --> 00:16:14,910 AUDIENCE: It reduced even more. 282 00:16:14,910 --> 00:16:16,950 MARK HARTMAN: It reduced even more 283 00:16:16,950 --> 00:16:20,830 because the detector response is even lower at blue-- 284 00:16:20,830 --> 00:16:23,580 or, I'm sorry-- at green light. 285 00:16:23,580 --> 00:16:25,780 What about blue? 286 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:28,290 We started with 20 in blue. 287 00:16:28,290 --> 00:16:32,580 After the cloud, we only had 12 left, 288 00:16:32,580 --> 00:16:34,935 and down here the detector only picks up four. 289 00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:39,969 So what happened? 290 00:16:39,969 --> 00:16:41,760 AUDIENCE: It's the least sensitive to blue. 291 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,920 MARK HARTMAN: It's least sensitive to blue, 292 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,560 and the cloud knocked out a lot of our blue light, 293 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,490 just like we saw over there in the bin. 294 00:16:50,490 --> 00:16:53,790 So what I want you guys to do now. 295 00:16:53,790 --> 00:16:55,340 I want--