Sentences with phrase «asymmetry in supernova»
Researchers had seen strong hints of this asymmetry in Supernova 1987A, notes astrophysicist Stan Woosley of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and computer simulations had suggested that massive instabilities in the first few seconds of a supernova blast should create «crooked fingers» of heavy elements that poke through the overlying star.
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«By introducing asymmetry into the explosion and adjusting the gas properties of the surrounding environment, we were able to reproduce a number of observed features from the real supernova such as the persistent one - sidedness in the radio images,» said Dr Toby Potter.
Since the radioactive atomic nuclei are synthesized in the innermost regions of the supernova, in the very close vicinity of the neutron star, their spatial distribution reflects explosion asymmetries most directly.
Moreover, it may lead to strong asymmetries of the stellar explosion, in course of which the newly formed neutron star will receive a large kick and spin,» describes team member Bernhard Müller the most significant consequences of such dynamical processes in the supernova core.
«He has constructed an experiment, in which a hydraulic jump in a circular water flow exhibits pulsational asymmetries in close analogy to the shock front in the collapsing matter of the supernova core.»