Sentences with phrase «actively accreting»
Further scrutiny of the TW Hya disk with GPI and SPHERE in their differential coronagraphic imaging modes may yield direct detection of the planet (s) that appears to be actively carving a gap in the TW Hya disk — especially if the putative planet is still actively accreting gas from the disk.
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The latest research shows that the relatively small OTS44 has a disk containing more than 10 times the mass of Earth, and that it is actively accreting material.
In contrast to an actively accreting disk system, these passive disks have significantly lower near - infrared colors that are, in most cases, consistent with photospheric emission, suggesting the presence of an inner disk hole.
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.
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.