Sentences with phrase «from magnetar»

They found it by observing a long - sought, short - lived afterglow of subatomic particles ejected from a magnetar — a neutron star with a magnetic field billions of times stronger than any on Earth and 100 times stronger than any other previously known in the Universe.

Kling, who worked at Steve Cohen's Point72 from 2015 to 2017, joined the firm from Magnetar Capital.

Two common models for gamma - ray emission from FRBs exist: one invoking magnetic flare events from magnetars — highly magnetized neutron stars that are the dense remnants of collapsed stars — and another invoking the catastrophic merger of two neutron stars, colliding to form a black hole.

For starters, why have we not seen any FRBs from magnetars that are much closer to Earth?

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For example, besides the Dell case, Magnetar was one of several hedge funds to share in a $ 127 million payment from Safeway in June 2015 to settle the investors» claims that the grocery chain sold itself to Albertson's for too low a price.

More recently, in late January of this year, Magnetar received another settlement of about $ 11 million, according to regulatory filings, from CEC Entertainment — the operator of Chuck E. Cheese kid - friendly restaurants — which it had sued seeking additional shareholder compensation in CEC's 2014 buyout by private equity firm Apollo Global Management (apo).

Rather, they could be from an unusual object called a magnetar.

NASA has confirmed that new data from this trio of high - energy telescopes, and archival data from Chandra, Swift and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton observatory, all show that the object has the properties of a magnetar, making it only the 30th known.

The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the fast radio bursts may come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star — a magnetar — in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.

The top candidates, the astronomers suggested, are a neutron star, possibly a highly - magnetic magnetar, surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar, or an active nucleus in the galaxy, with radio emission coming from jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole.

They are also developing (with Dr. Kent Wood of NRL) a model that attempts to account for the radio bursts as a new type of outburst from a class of sources known as «magnetars.»

A giant flash of energy from a supermagnetic neutron star thousands of light - years from Earth may shed a whole new light on scientists» understanding of such mysterious magnetars and of gamma - ray bursts.

Although nowhere near as strong as a magnetar, it is still strong enough to protects us from harmful radiation sent from the Sun, and it causes the beautiful Northern Lights!

And, according to Laura Spitler, namesake of the Spitler burst and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in Bonn, Germany, magnetars generally form from stellar explosions called Type - I superluminous supernovas.

This magnetar also remains embedded in an expanding cloud of debris from a supernova explosion.

This story is still just hypothetical, but astrophysicists point to a piece of supporting evidence: The FRBs are coming from the same vicinity as a steady source of radio emission — possibly the background signal from the expanding debris cloud that surrounds the young magnetar.

New data from these powerful telescopes later confirmed that 1E 1613 has the properties of a magnetar — a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field — making it only the 30th known one.

«Several interpretations of the nature of this system have been proposed, from an isolated slowly spinning magnetar with a substantial fossil - disk, to a young low mass X-ray binary system, or even a binary magnetar, but none of them is straightforward, nor can they explain the overall observational properties,» researchers said in a study, published in the Sept. 2, 2016, issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

This is the first time this phenomenon, predicted by theorists, has been seen so clearly from a suspected magnetar.

This superstrong magnetic field produces effects that distinguish magnetars from other neutron stars.