Question: A star located 1 5 3 0 0 0 light years from Earth ( 1 light year 1 0 1 6 m ) has a

A star located 153000 light years from Earth (1 light year 1016 m) has a power output 8 million times that of the Sun with a mass 300 times that of the Sun. The intensity of the Suns radiation at the location of the Earth is 1400 W/m2 where the average distance between the Sun and earth is 1.5 x 1011 m.(a) What is the power output of this star? (b) Assuming a wavelength, l, of 500 nm. Find the number of photons crossing the pupil of your eye each second coming from this star. Assume a circular cross-section of the pupil with a radius of 4 mm.(c) If the density of cone cells in your eye receiving the light is 1.50 x 105 cones/mm2. What is the rate at which photons arrive on a single cone cell and the resulting time between the arrival of photons on a single cone cell?

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