Sentences with phrase «accretes on»

Their article is a crie de coeur from a threatened species, the sociological baggage which accretes on the outside of a gravy train, a bit like the Indian poor on their way to Mumbai.

Time accretes on their surfaces, marked by single, swift brushstrokes and dense fogs of pigment.

In the story on dangerous ice build - up on aircraft (30 April, p 17), Paul Marks stated that «as ice accretes on the wings and tail, it changes their shape, creating drag.

Quasar An active galactic nucleus derives its high energy from gas accreting on the center of a supermassive black hole.

Not exact matches

Structuring, upfront and similar fees are recorded as a discount on investments purchased and are accreted into interest income, on a straight line basis, which we have determined not to be materially different from the effective yield method.

«Money being reinvested into a business is, by definition, not immediately accreting to shareholders, which we think may be a problem given high consensus earnings growth expectations,» says Castagno, adding that the companies most at risk, based on elevated expectations and likelihood of reinvestment, are those in Consumer Staples, Financials, Health Care, and Industrials.

Plunkett said the technology allows researchers to determine details about the star formation process, such as how often material is accreted or ejected, on time scales of a few hundred years.

Pasham says tidal disruption flares are a potential window into the universe's many «hidden» black holes, which are not actively accreting, or feeding on material.

The light show that G2's demise may produce and just how quickly the cloud will accrete «will be very strongly dependent on the magnetic field,» Reynolds says.

Gaining a better understanding of how much mass black holes accrete may therefore provide new insight on how galaxies pack on the pounds, astronomers note.

So these are not sort of small players, these are major parts of the energy budget of an accreting black hole and by extension, they have an important impact on their environment; and the jets associated with accreting black holes and nuclei galaxies inflate giant lobes of plasma outside the galaxy and these heat the surrounding gas, they affect the fuel supply, they stimulate star formation, they in fact stimulate galaxy formation.

The study's authors knew the ratio for carbonaceous chondrites and reasoned that if they could compare that to an object that was known to crystallize while Earth was actively accreting then they could gauge when water appeared on Earth.

Along with Harrison and Walton, additional Caltech authors on the paper, «An Ultraluminous X-ray Source Powered by An Accreting Neutron Star,» are postdoctoral scholars Felix Fürst, and Shriharsh Tendulkar; research scientists Brian W. Grefenstette and Vikram Rana; and Shri Kulkarni, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science and director of the Caltech Optical Observatories.

«The observations show the presence of very bright X-ray sources that are likely accreting black holes,» says Philip Kaaret, professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy and corresponding author on the study.

«In the same that we can only eat so much food at a time, there are limits to how fast neutron stars can accrete matter,» says Murray Brightman, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and lead author of a new report on the findings in Nature Astronomy.

Walter's recent research has focused on the period early in Earth's history, shortly after the planet accreted from the cloud of gas and dust surrounding our young Sun, when the mantle and the core first separated into distinct layers.

On January 15, 2010, a team of astronomers released the results of computer simulations indicating that kilometer - size planetesimals can form and accrete into rocky Earth - size planets around Alpha Centauri B despite gravitational perturbations from Alpha Centauri A.

Ammonia, accreted either as organic matter or as ice, may have reacted with phyllosilicates on Ceres during differentiation.

By determining the nature of these X-ray sources, this FLAMINGOS - 2 Galactic Center Survey will have a dramatic impact on our knowledge of the Galactic accreting binary population.

Having thus established a target list, we will use the multi-object IR spectrograph FLAMINGOS - 2 on Gemini - South to carry out a spectroscopic survey of the candidate counterparts, to search for emission line signatures which are a hallmark of accreting binaries.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

In addition to extending a relatively new method of determining the chemical composition of planets to examine their internal structure, the team found that the rocky material being accreted by the star could be comprised of minerals that are typically associated with marine life processes here on Earth.

While the presence of the calcium - carbonate is still in question, the paper shows strong evidence that the accreted material is almost certainly coming from the outer layers of a planet - like object and that white dwarf stars hold promise in informing on the structure of planets outside of the Solar system.

Her research is focused on using radio observations of novae and symbiotic systems to examine the evolution of accreting dwarf galaxies among other things.

«We can see the material that used to make up this planet being accreted and replenished on a daily timescale.

Unlike video game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.

By clearing away resource - sucking regulations and accreted categorical programs, instead unfettering education dollars to be directed to actual school and student needs, they're betting the state can turn the page on achievement mire.

(A taxpayer may elect to include accreted market discount in taxable income on a current basis during the period he or she holds the bond.

As with other tax - exempt securities, market discount on OID bonds is accreted from the date the bond is purchased to the maturity date.

An investor may choose to accrete market discount on a daily basis using the ratable, or straight - line method, or using the constant interest rate method.

The effect of this rule is that a taxpayer who purchases a tax - exempt bond subsequent to its original issuance at a price less than its stated redemption price at maturity (or, if issued with OID, at a price less than its accreted value), either because interest rates have risen or the obligor's credit has declined since the bond was issued, and who thereafter recognizes gain on the disposition of such bond will have part or all of the «gain» treated as ordinary income.

In order to avoid capital gains taxes on pre-maturity sales of tax - exempt bonds (zero coupon or not) with an OID, the IRS provides that the holder's basis increases (accretes) semi-annually.

Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers.

His commitment to a grand tradition of painting superimposes a value on his work that accretes history as if its challenges demanded that a position be taken and held, whatever the cost.

If rate of accretion depends on the mass of the accreting body, then the rate of the increase in mass of that accreting body increases quickly until all available material is taken.

On the other hand, about 8 % of the world's sandy beaches experience significant accretion (> 3 m / yr), while 6 % (3 %) are accreting more than 5 m / yr (10 m / yr).

«And the joint venture agreement increased our yield considerably because we were able to accrete various fees on property management, leasing, etc..