Sentences with phrase «magnetic field lines»

They emerge where dense bundles of magnetic field lines from the sun's interior break through the surface.

When magnetic field lines interact, they can release high - energy ions and electrons, which produce X-rays and gamma rays.

These simulations provide new and novel insight regarding the influence of chaotic magnetic field lines on the spontaneous development of current sheets, and hence potential places of particle acceleration.

So the north magnetic pole is where the earth's magnetic field lines pull toward the planet, acting like the south pole of a bar magnet.

Flares and CMEs are thought to be driven by a process called magnetic reconnection, in which magnetic field lines in plasma break and then re-join to field lines flowing in the opposite direction.

The observed Sgr A * emission is polarized and this means that it is produced by electrons gyrating around magnetic field lines in so called synchrotron process.

The similarity is both in the strength of the field and in its arrangement, with magnetic field lines twisted in spirals around the galaxy's rotation axis.

The corona is made up of charged plasma, which roils in famous loops and fans that follow magnetic field lines emerging from the surface of the sun (SN Online: 8/17/17).

Auroras arise from the impact of streams of charged particles into a planet's atmosphere; the phenomena occur at the poles because magnetic field lines converge there, effectively steering charged particles into the atmosphere.

Reconnection is described as the process in which magnetic field lines can come together, break apart and then snap into new positions.

As the name suggests, it shares many parallels with its terrestrial counterpart; it consists of cool plasma condensations falling from coronal heights towards the solar surface guided by magnetic field lines.

Their powerful magnetic field lines accelerate electrons to high speeds, causing them to collide with photons, which split into pairs of electrons and...

The coupling currents or field - aligned currents flow along magnetic field lines between the magnetosphere and ionosphere.

The spectrum looks like the synchrotron radiation from charged particles spiralling around magnetic field lines at nearly the speed of light (remember the emission from pulsars?).

One idea holds that magnetic field lines twist and braid as they skitter around the sun, building up tension and unleashing massive amounts of energy when they finally break like rubber bands.

These form in areas where magnetic field lines converge, producing cooler regions of «only» about 3,000 — 4,000 degrees Celsius (by contrast with their surroundings of 5,000 degrees Celsius or higher).

Yellow lines represent magnetic field lines from the Sun carried by the solar wind, blue lines represent Martian surface magnetic fields, white sparks are reconnection activity, and red lines are reconnected magnetic fields that link the surface to space via the Martian magnetotail.

The Slinky - like loops represent magnetic field lines.

But there's one exception: a very bright active region, seen as a tangle of bright filaments tracing out magnetic field lines emerging from the Sun's surface.

Operating under the idea that chaotically tangled magnetic field lines exist throughout astrophysical plasmas, the team used high - performance computer simulation to gain an understanding of these chaotic field lines.

Magnetic waves in plasma, called Alfvén waves, are thought to ripple through the sun's magnetic field lines like vibrations in a guitar string.

Around spinning black holes, however, frame dragging could be hugely important: By whipping magnetic field lines through the electrically charged gas around the holes, it could convert them into electromagnetic generators, which would explain how they spew jets of energetic particles millions of light - years into space.

On Earth's dayside, magnetic reconnection takes place at the intersection of solar magnetic field lines with those of Earth's magnetic field.

From their analysis of this occurrence, the team determined that a favorable evolution bring non-parallel magnetic field lines into close proximity and intensify current sheets.

The data suggest that in the chromosphere magnetic field lines break and reconnect to generate the heat and drive the electrons up into the loops, Aschwanden says.

«We found that the energetic plasma signatures occur on high - latitude magnetic field lines that have been «closed» by the process of magnetic reconnection, which then causes the plasma to become relatively hot,» says Dr Fear.

Both problems might be cleared up by better understanding an energetic process called reconnection, which happens when magnetic field lines merge when they get too close to each other.

«It apparently involves a lot more magnetic field lines,» Cirtain says.

Astronomers have long seen loops of magnetic field lines extend from within the sun out into the corona.

The simple fact that the maximum value of volume current density was increased with increasing magnetic field line chaos, called «chaoticity,» suggests a direct proportionality between the intensity of the current sheet and chaoticity.

The electrons in the hydrogen would be trapped and move up and down the bursting pulsar's intense magnetic field lines, but not across them.

One possibility is that wave motion in the corona's magnetic field lines helps untie the snarls.

In 2015, NASA launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft to study the mysterious interactions between Earth and the solar wind when our planet's magnetic field lines occasionally break and reconnect, which also affects auroral activity.

The researchers obtained measurements in Antarctica in 2013 when the balloons and both the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Van Allen Probe satellites were near the same magnetic field line.

Researchers had expected magnetic field lines over the Sun's poles to act like a funnel, channelling in cosmic rays from deep interstellar space.

These explosions, known as magnetic reconnection, occur when magnetic field lines cross, releasing stored magnetic energy.

In the image above, blue lines track strong magnetic field lines directed one way, while those in magenta trace powerful lines in the opposite direction.

Similar to how water in a bathtub forms a whirlpool as it goes down a drain, the gas and magnetic fields that feed a supermassive black hole swirl to form a rotating disk — a tangled spaghetti of magnetic field lines mixed into a broth of hot gas.

When magnetic field lines reconnect, they release energy; some researchers suspect that fine - scale magnetic reconnections above the sun's surface provide the energy to heat the corona.

As the pulses approached Earth, the ultralow frequency waves made the planet's magnetic field lines oscillate and accelerated electrons traveling along the field lines to extraordinarily high speeds.

When boiling carries them up to the surface and farther into the sun's lower atmosphere, magnetic field lines rapidly snap back into place to resolve the tension, expelling plasma and energy.

While Steve goes through the same large - scale creation process as an aurora, it travels along different magnetic field lines than the aurora.

New footage put together by an international team led by University of Cambridge researchers shows how entangled magnetic field lines looping from the Sun's surface slip around each other and lead to an eruption 35 times the size of Earth and an explosive release of magnetic energy into space.

If a plume reaches the boundary between the earthly and solar magnetic fields, the theory goes, it can create a buffer zone of dense material that would make it harder for magnetic field lines to meet up and spark further reconnection.

The energy input from Saturn's magnetospheric interaction shows a strong interaction with Titan's atmosphere and the corresponding induced magnetosphere with draped magnetic field lines.

The map shows the intensity of infrared light, and traces magnetic field lines within filaments of warm dust grains and hot gas, which appear here as thin lines reminiscent of brush strokes in a painting.

One leading scenario is that debris from the exploded star has fallen back onto magnetic field lines around the spinning neutron star, causing it to spin more slowly with time,» NASA said in a statement.

An illustrated cross-section of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, including a thick magma ocean (red), as revealed by Jupiter's bent magnetic field lines (blue).