Sentences with phrase «mass infalling»
The large size of the hot core in MM3 is possibly due to the high mass infalling rate than ever thought.
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The team also determined the gas infall rate to be a millionth of the mass of the Sun per year, with a speed of 1 km per second.
In 2000, a team of astronomers (Nick N. Gorkavyi, Sara Heap, Leonid Ozernoy, Tanya A. Taidakova, and John Mather) announced that modelling of the asymmetric circumstellar disk infalling into Vega suggests that there may be a planet twice the mass of Jupiter at an orbital distance of about 50 to 60 AU from the star — up to one and a half times the «average» orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System (N.N. Gorkavyi et al, 2000 and more discussion).
The Pistol Star may be radiating enough energy to halt the further infall of gas and dust that had been agglomerating onto the star, thus limiting its maximum mass.