USAAAO 2021, I кръг — Задача 23
USAAAO 2021 - First Round · 30 януари 2021 г.
PHYSICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL CONSTANTS
| c | Speed of light in vacuum | |
| e | Elementary charge | |
| m | Neutron rest mass | |
| m | Proton rest mass | |
| m | Electron rest mass | |
| m | Helium-4 rest mass | |
| h | Planck’s constant | |
| H | Hubble’s constant | 70 (km/s)/Mpc |
| k | Boltzmann’s constant | |
| b | Wien’s constant | |
| G | Gravitational constant | |
| Stefan-Boltzmann constant | ||
| c | First Radiation Constant | |
| c | Second Radiation Constant | |
| N | Avogadro constant | |
| R | Gas constant | |
| a | Bohr radius | |
| Bohr magneton | ||
| M | Solar mass | |
| R | Solar radius | |
| L | Solar luminosity | |
| T | Solar temperature | 5770 K |
| M | Earth mass | |
| R | Mean Earth radius | |
| I | Earth moment of Inertia | |
| R☾ | Mean Moon radius | |
| M♃ | Mean Jupiter mass | |
| R♃ | Mean Jupiter radius | |
| a♃ | Mean orbital radius of Jupiter | 5.2 AU |
| a☾ | Mean semimajor axis Moon orbit | |
| 1 light year | ||
| 1 AU | Astronomical Unit | |
| 1 pc | Parsec | |
| 1 year | ||
| 1 sidereal day | 86164 s | |
| 1 erg | ||
| 1 bar |
ENERGY CONVERSION : 1 joule (J) = electronvolts (eV)
Условие
An astronomer observes that a Solar type star has an apparent V magnitude of 6.73 when seen from the Earth. Assuming that the average interstellar extinction in V is 1.00 mag/kpc, determine the distance between this star and the Solar system.
(a) 11.5 pc
(b) 49.5 pc
(c) 34.2 pc
(d) 23.7 pc
(e) 18.9 pc
Отговори
- D
Решение
It is possible to use the following formula, in which d is the distance, is the interstellar extinction, m is the apparent magnitude and M is the absolute magnitude:
Plugging in the values (1.00 mag/kpc is equal to mag/pc):
This equation cannot be solved analytically, so it is necessary to use numerical methods. The simplest approach is to guess a value for the distance, plug it in, and keep increasing or decreasing the value until the right side of the equation is equal to 6.9.
Another approach is to use the scientific calculator to perform an iteration. The first step of the iteration is to rearrange the formula:
Next, guess a distance and press the “=” button. Then, type the formula on the right side of the equation using the “ANS” button as d. Keep pressing “=” until the result does not change anymore. This number is the distance d.
Using any of the two methods, the result is that the distance is equal to 23.7 pc.
Answer: D
Оригинал в Архива: usaaao2021_exam1.pdf · официални решения: usaaao2021_exam1_solutions.pdf