Experimentation

I love the things that can come out of a little experimentation such as using a small LED flashlight. Credit: Sean McGrath from Saint John, NB, Canada.{{free media}}

A little experimentation is at the heart of the scientific method.

## Control groups

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The components of a control group are often applied in the performance of experimentation.

## Gathering data

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To gather data, use "dominant group" in quotes and anthropology or ethnography as additional search terms to explore the internet using search engines listed under External links.

## Laboratories

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Main resource: Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory.

A laboratory is a construct you create so as to produce reproducible measurements.

Def. "a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis"[1] is called a laboratory.

## Measurements

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A typical tape measure with both metric and US units is shown to measure two US pennies. Credit: Stilfehler.

Def. any act of quantifying relative to a standard is called a measurement.

## Theories

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These can take the form of a formal theory such as the Hubble scheme, see Evaluation of nebula NGC 6946, Hypotheses, or reasoning.

## Evaluation of nebula NGC 6946

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The composite image shows a classification of galaxies. Credit: Ville Koistinen.

Although nebula NGC 6946 is not known to rotate during observation in the plane of view or vertical to it, its appearance in both images is assessed using the Hubble scheme:

Probably the earliest classification of galaxies "is based on the forms of the photographic images."[2]

"About 3 per cent are irregular, but the remaining nebulae fall into a sequence of type forms characterized by rotational symmetry about dominating nuclei."[2]

"The sequence is composed of two sections, the elliptical nebulae and the spirals, which merge into each other."[2]

"The classification of these nebulae is based on structure, the individual members of a class differing only in apparent size and luminosity."[2]

The "forms divide themselves naturally into two groups:

1. those [nebulae] found in or near the Milky Way and
2. those in moderate or high galactic latitudes."[2]

For the elliptical nebulae [galaxies], the classification En, where "n=1, 2, .... , 7 indicates the ellipticity of the image without the decimal point".[2]

For example, NGC 3379 is E0, NGC 221 is E2, NGC 4621 is E5 and NGC 2117 is E7.[2]

The spirals are divided into two types:

1. Normal spirals (S) of Early (Sa), Intermediate (Sb), and Late (Sc) and
2. Barred spirals (SB) of Early (SBa), Intermediate (SBb), and Late (SBc).[2]

The irregular galaxies are put into that structure form with "Irr".[2]

Examples are

1. Sa - NGC 4594,
2. Sb - NGC 2841,
3. Sc - NGC 5457,
4. SBa - NGC 2859,
5. SBb - NGC 3351,
6. SBc - NGC 7479, and
7. Irr - NGC 4449.[2]

and forms of rotational symmetry described as

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Orientation is determined from image structure and symmetry: The composite image below at right does appear to conform to a face-on galaxy.

Additional individuals have recorded their opinions on morphology:

The primary source used by SIMBAD considers the nebula to be one of 30 nearby spiral galaxies.[3]

"Targets span a wide range in Hubble type, star formation activity, morphology, and inclination."[3]

and an assessment based on the Hubble scheme has been estimated:

This is a composite scanned spectral image of NGC 6946. Credit: NASA / CXC / MSSL / R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA / Gemini OBs.

As a visual guide and examining the multispectral image at the right, NGC 6946 appears to be close to type Sb (example, NGC 2841).

A distance calculation from 1978 based on secondary indicators has been made:

Distance moduli have been estimated for NGC 6946 using its brightest blue stars and its HII ring.[4] Its distance modulus is estimated to be log D0 = 4.434.[4] The distance in parsecs is given by

d = 10 μ 0 5 + 1 , {\displaystyle d=10^{{\frac {\mu _{0}}{5}}+1},}

where µ0 = 29.25.[4] NGC 6946 is at 106.85 (7.08 x 106) parsecs, or approximately 23.1 x 106 light years. While this is greater than the NASA number, it is not an order of magnitude greater or smaller.

Several primary sources are consulted regarding classification and special characteristics:

Looking up "NGC 6946" on SIMBAD, without the quotes, reveals that SIMBAD considers NGC 6946 to be an "HII Galaxy" of morphological type "SAB(rs)cd".

A more extensive classification scheme starting from the Hubble scheme indicates that an Sab galaxy is approximately in between Sa and Sb.[5]

## See also

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* Stars/Galaxies/Laboratory

## References

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1. ↑ laboratory. San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. September 21, 2013. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laboratory. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Edwin Hubble (December 1926). "Extra-Galactic Nebulae". The Astrophysical Journal 64 (12): 321-69. doi:10.1086/143018. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1926ApJ....64..321H. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Guillermo A. Blanc, Tim Weinzirl, Mimi Song, Amanda Heiderman, Karl Gebhardt, Shardha Jogee, Neal J. Evans II, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Rongxin Luo, Niv Drory, Maximilian Fabricius, David Fisher, Lei Hao, Kyle Kaplan, Irina Marinova, Nalin Vutisalchavakul, and Peter Yoachim (May 2013). "The VIRUS-P Exploration of Nearby Galaxies (VENGA): Survey, Design, Data Processing, and Spectral Analysis Methods". The Astronomical Journal 145 (5): 138. http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/145/5/138/. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 G. de Vaucouleurs (September 15, 1978). "The extragalactic distance scale. IV - Distances of nearest groups and field galaxies from secondary indicators". The Astrophysical Journal 224 (09): 710-7. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ApJ...224..710D. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
5. ↑ Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1994). Global Physical Parameters of Galaxies. http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/galaxy-morphology/devaucouleurs.ps. Retrieved 2008-01-02.

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