Sentences with phrase «moving tidal bulges»
David Tsang of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and colleagues have calculated how the mutual gravitational pull of such stars will distort their shape, creating moving tidal bulges.
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The Encelade team — lead by Valéry Lainey of the Paris Observatory — provided two key measurements in the research: the rigidity of the tidal bulge, or the Love number — named for Augustus E.H. Love, a famed British mathematician who studied elasticity — and the dissipation factor, which controls the speed at which moons move away.