IAO 2015, Теория, Група β — Задача 4. Constellation of White Leopard
XX International Astronomy Olympiad. Theoretical round. Group β · 15 октомври 2015 г.
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Условие
According to an ancient legend of Middle Volga there was a constellation called White Leopard (Белый Барс – Pardus Album) in the sky in the very past, in which the number of stars were exactly equal to the number of letters in the Greek alphabet, and the stars had magnitudes PaA – , PaA – , PaA – , PaA – , and so on with adding till PaA. Calculate the total magnitude of the stars of this constellation.
Отговори
- Total magnitude approximately −2.41.
Решение
Official sketches for solutions; for jury work only. The given sketches are not full; team leaders have to give more detailed explanations to students. Correct solutions in students' papers (enough for 8 points) may be shorter.
Jury note. Evaluate the solution in essence, not by formal existence of mentioned sentences or formulae. Their formal presence is not necessary to give the respective points. Give points if the following steps de facto use these positions.
The first source page prints these notes twice, under both “Sketches for solutions” and “Basic criteria”. No item-by-item numerical grading breakdown appears in the archived five images. The running headers on images 2–4 print “XX IAO 2014”, while their footers and the cover identify 2015.
Solution
There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet, so take the 24 magnitudes from +0.10 to +2.40.
The source first jokes: magnitudes — “Sorry, a joke.”
Really we must add to the first star's flux the other 23 fluxes, decreasing exponentially with pitch
The infinite sum can be found by a geometric progression. The source prints
Source discrepancies: the middle line is printed as an equality chain, and the subsequent denominator uses 1.04713 instead of the preceding pitch 1.09648. The printed multiplier 11.37 follows the latter pitch.
The magnitude of the infinite series would be
There are only 24 stars. Subtract the flux of the analogous infinite series starting at the 25th star, magnitude 2.50. Every star in this second series is 2.40 magnitudes weaker; so is the series as a whole:
The source jokes again about subtracting magnitudes: — “Sorry, a joke once again.” Fluxes must instead be subtracted. The second flux is times weaker:
Hence
Attention! The second joke happens to give almost the right number, by pure coincidence. Not any solution giving the same numerical value is right; pay attention when checking.
Other approaches. Calculate each star's flux, add the fluxes, and recover the total apparent magnitude. A proper calculation gives exactly the same answer (easy to check in Excel), but is lengthy without a computer or programmable calculator.
A very rough linear approximation uses the “average” magnitude , giving
The source says this is very rough and not suitable as a workable solution, but “a little better than nothing”.
Parameters of orbits and physical characteristics; local coordinates
| Body | Average distance to central body (AU) | Average distance to central body (10⁶ km) | Sidereal (or analogous) period (tropical years) | Sidereal (or analogous) period (days) | Eccentricity | Equatorial diameter (km) | Mass (10²⁴ kg) | Density (g/cm³) | Gravity (m/s²) | Maximum magnitude | Albedo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 1392000 | 1989000 | 1.409 | −26.8 | |||||||
| Mercury | 0.387 | 57.9 | 0.241 | 87.969 | 0.206 | 4879 | 0.3302 | 5.43 | 3.70 | −2.2 | 0.06 |
| Venus | 0.723 | 108.2 | 0.615 | 224.701 | 0.007 | 12104 | 4.8690 | 5.24 | 8.87 | −4.7 | 0.78 |
| Earth | 1.000 | 149.6 | 1.000 | 365.256 | 0.017 | 12756 | 5.9742 | 5.515 | 9.81 | 0.36 | |
| Moon | 0.00257 | 0.38440 | 0.0748 | 27.3217 | 0.055 | 3475 | 0.0735 | 3.34 | 1.62 | −12.7 | 0.07 |
| Mars | 1.524 | 227.9 | 1.880 | 686.980 | 0.093 | 6794 | 0.6419 | 3.94 | 3.71 | −2.0 | 0.15 |
| Jupiter | 5.204 | 778.6 | 11.862 | 4332.59 | 0.048 | 142984 | 1899.8 | 1.33 | 24.86 | −2.7 | 0.66 |
| Saturn | 9.584 | 1433.7 | 29.458 | 10759.20 | 0.054 | 120536 | 568.50 | 0.70 | 10.41 | 0.7 | 0.68 |
| Uranus | 19.191 | 2871.0 | 84.015 | 30685.93 | 0.046 | 51118 | 86.625 | 1.30 | 8.44 | 5.5 | 0.74 |
| Neptune | 30.071 | 4498.6 | 164.778 | 60187.64 | 0.008 | 49532 | 102.78 | 1.76 | 11.20 | 7.8 | 0.58 |
For outer planets and Moon — in mean opposition. Blank cells are blank in the source.
| Coordinates | Observatory | Kazan kremlin | Petrovskoye |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longitude E | 48°49′ | 49°06′ | 49°06′ |
| Latitude N | 55°50′ | 55°48′ | 55°41′ |
| Timezone | UT+3 | UT+3 | UT+3 |
Some constants and formulae
| Constant or formula | Value |
|---|---|
| Speed of light in vacuum c (m/s) | 299792458 |
| Constant of gravitation G (N·m²/kg²) | |
| Solar constant A (W/m²) | 1367 |
| Hubble parameter H₀ (km/s/Mpc), mean | 68 |
| Hubble parameter, range | 50–100 |
| Planck constant h (J·s) | |
| Charge of electron e (C) | |
| Mass of electron mₑ (kg) | |
| Proton-to-electron ratio | 1836.15 |
| Faraday constant F (C/mol) | 96485 |
| Magnetic constant μ₀ (H/m) | |
| Universal gas constant R (J/mol/K) | 8.314 |
| Boltzmann constant k (J/K) | |
| Stefan–Boltzmann constant σ (W/m²/K⁴) | |
| Wien displacement constant b (m·K) | 0.002897 |
| Laboratory wavelength Hα (Å) | 6562.81 |
| Tropical year length T (days) | 365.242199 |
| Nodal period of lunar orbit (years) | −18.6 |
| Standard atmosphere (Pa) | 101325 |
| Visible light extinction by terrestrial atmosphere in zenith (minimum) | 19%, 0.23 magnitudes |
| Height of homogeneous atmosphere (m) | 7991 |
| Refractive index of water for 20°C n | 1.334 |
| Moment of inertia of a solid ball | |
| Volume of a ball | |
| Area of sphere | |
| π | 3.14159265 |
| e | 2.71828183 |
| Golden ratio φ | 1.61803399 |
20 brightest stars, other stars and Greek alphabet
| Name | Designation | RA | Dec | Parallax (arcsec) | Magnitude | Spectral class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altair | α Aql | 19h50m47s | 08°52′06″ | 0.195 | 0.77 | A7 |
| Capella | α Aur | 05h16m41s | 45°59′53″ | 0.073 | 0.08 | G5+G0 |
| Arcturus | α Boo | 14h15m38s | 19°10′57″ | 0.089 | −0.04ᵛ | K1 |
| Canopus | α Car | 06h23m57s | −52°41′45″ | 0.028 | −0.72 | F0 |
| Toliman (Rigel Kent) | α Cen A; B | 14h39m36s | −60°50′07″ | 0.747 | −0.01; 1.33 | G2; K1 |
| Hadar | β Cen | 14h03m49s | −60°22′23″ | 0.009 | 0.61 | B1 |
| Sirius | α CMa | 06h45m09s | −16°42′58″ | 0.375 | −1.46 | A1 |
| Procyon | α CMi | 07h39m18s | 05°13′30″ | 0.288 | 0.38 | F5 |
| Acrux | α Cru | 12h26m36s | −63°05′57″ | 0.010 | 0.77 | B0 |
| Becrux | β Cru | 12h47m43s | −59°41′20″ | 0.009 | 1.30 | B0 |
| Deneb | α Cyg | 20h41m26s | 45°16′49″ | 0.002 | 1.25 | A2 |
| Achernar | α Eri | 01h37m43s | −57°14′12″ | 0.026 | 0.46 | B3 |
| Pollux | β Gem | 07h45m19s | 28°01′35″ | 0.097 | 1.14 | K0 |
| Vega | α Lyr | 18h36m56s | 38°47′01″ | 0.123 | 0.03 | A0 |
| Betelgeuse | α Ori | 05h55m10s | 07°24′25″ | 0.005 | 0.5ᵛ | M2 |
| Rigel | β Ori | 05h14m32s | −08°12′06″ | 0.013 | 0.12 | B8 |
| Fomalhaut | α PsA | 22h57m39s | −29°37′20″ | 0.130 | 1.16 | A3 |
| Antares | α Sco | 16h29m24s | −26°25′55″ | 0.024 | 0.96 | M1+B4 |
| Aldebaran | α Tau | 04h35m55s | 16°30′33″ | 0.048 | 0.85ᵛ | K5 |
| Spica | α Vir | 13h25m12s | −11°09′41″ | 0.023 | 0.98 | B1 |
Some other stars
| Name | Designation | RA | Dec | Parallax (arcsec) | Magnitude | Spectral class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamal | α Ari | 02h07m10s | 23°27′45″ | 0.050 | 2.01 | K2 |
| Polaris | α UMi | 02h31m49s | 89°15′51″ | 0.007 | 1.97ᵛ | F7 |
| Kochab | β UMi | 14h50m42s | 74°09′20″ | 0.025 | 2.07 | K4 |
| Proxima Centauri | V645 Cen, α Cen C | 14h29m43s | −62°40′46″ | 0.769 | 11.05 | M5.5 |
Greek alphabet
| Uppercase | Lowercase | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Α | α | alpha |
| Β | β | beta |
| Γ | γ | gamma |
| Δ | δ | delta |
| Ε | ε | epsilon |
| Ζ | ζ | zeta |
| Η | η | eta |
| Θ | θ | theta |
| Ι | ί | iota |
| Κ | κ | kappa |
| Λ | λ | lambda |
| Μ | μ | mu |
| Ν | ν | nu |
| Ξ | ξ | xi |
| Ο | ο | omicron |
| Π | π | pi |
| Ρ | ρ | rho |
| Σ | σ | sigma |
| Τ | τ | tau |
| Υ | υ | upsilon |
| Φ | φ | phi |
| Χ | χ | chi |
| Ψ | ψ | psi |
| Ω | ω | omega |
Теми и трудност
Трудност: неоценена.
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