http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_A
Astronomy Facts to know
coordinates of celestial objects on the celestial sphere
Hubbles Equation of Expansion of Universe
http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/127/6/3587/pdf/1538-3881_127_6_3587.pdf
Above is a link to a paper that is somewhat interesting. It talks about the system of coordinates used to designate locations of astronomical objects. It is called the International Celestial Reference Frame, and is based on the location of some 200 objects that have stable positions in the sky.
Here are some comments on the International Celestial Reference Frame,
"The ICRF has accomplished its primary goal of providing
an accurate and stable frame conceptually independent of the
motion of Earth in space. However, from its inception, it has
been known that the ICRF has a less than desirable density of
sources (Ma et al. 1998), with an average of only about one
object per 8 square degrees on the sky (Charlot et al. 2000).
In addition, the distribution of the ICRF sources on the sky
is largely nonuniform. The deficit of sources is particularly
pronounced in the southern hemisphere"
It makes sense that the Southern Hemisphere does not have a lot of source stars.
http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/gps-relativity.asp
Above is a link that seems to question special relativity. It discusses and compares Lorentzian Relativity with Special Relativity. One of the key differences with Lorentzian Relativity is that there is a preferred frame. This article also seems to indicate that general and special relativistic corrections have not been proven for satelites. I don't have much background to dispute this either way.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991ApJ...383..554C
Above is a link to a research paper written about Cygnus A. Apparaently, a Jet Model has been developed for powerful Radio Galaxies, and Cygnus A fits into this category. These jets are caused by particle acceleration at hot spots and outflow into radio lobes. Energy is lost due to synchrotron radiation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron_radiation
which is something that Jeff has talked a lot about, I believe with Jupiter. Synchrotron_Radiation is essentially radiation that is emitted when charged particles are accelerated to incredibly high speeds, close to the speed of light.
This paper talks about synchrotron spectral aging theory, which lead me to the spectral index.
"the spectral index of a source is a measure of the dependence of radiative flux density on frequency" ("spectral index" Wikipedia) I should practice with citing sources, because I have gotten really out of practice.
From the below abstract,
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985ApJ...291...52M,
It appears that synchrotron aging is the loss of energy due to synchrotron radiation. This article says that the particles reach speeds of 10,000-30,000 km/s, which 1/3c- c. That is definitely fast.
http://reylab.bidmc.harvard.edu/pubs/1990/circulation-1990-81-1803.pdf
Here is an article I ran into, which, in its intro, talks about how fourier analysis is done on heart rates, to determine sympathetic and vagal influences. I do not know what these are, but I have not thought about using fourier analysis on heart beats.
THIS PROJECT represents what we are shooting for with the project:
http://www.signalone.com/radioastronomy/telescope/
It has example data for free hydrogen scans.
Here is another cool website. This could be a cool thing to center an astronomy club on, with the SID project, mentioned here
http://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/142
The Stanford Solar Website is also interesting
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/sidmonitor/
Well, this is an epic post, and it continues. 21 cm radiation, via wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line
Here is another cool website, with pictures of different solar system objects
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
And so it ends.
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