Astronomy 113
Homework 3, Due on Monday March 25 at the beginning of class.
Be sure to show your work, do your own work, and put your name and
row letter on it and write legibly. If I can't read it, I can't grade it.
Do on your own paper- do not turn in any images.
If an answer is numerical you must show the equation for credit.
Question 1: About what fraction of stars have planets?
A) Close to 0% (nearly just us)
B) 10%
C) 50%
D) 90%
Question 2: Which star is the coolest?
A) Yellow
B) Red
C) Orange.
D) Violet
E) Blue
Question 3: What is the temperature of a star with a peak in its spectrum
at 250 nm?
A cloud collapses to form 4 stars. Star A is 12 solar masses, Star B is
3 solar masses, Star C is 0.8 solar masses and star D is 0.4 solar masses.
These stars all begin the main sequence at the same time and would be roughly
the same distance from us.
Question 4: Which star is the hottest?
Question 5: Which star is the faintest?
Question 6: What is the total luminosity of these 4 stars (in solar
units) on the main sequence?
Question 7: After 3 billion years, how many stars are still on the
main sequence?
Question 8: After 15 billion years, how many stars are still on the
main sequence?
Question 9: Why must stars evolve?
Question 10: What is the source of energy for our Sun?
Question 11: I see a red star and a blue star in a binary. The red star is
brighter, what else do I know about these two stars?
Question 11: How will our Sun end?
A) It will explode (a supernova).
B) It will shine forever.
C) As a white dwarf.
D) As a supergiant.