Sentences with phrase «of 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.

While a handful of these superluminous supernovae have been seen since they were first announced in 2009, and the creation of a magnetar had been postulated as a possible energy source, the work of Howell and his colleagues is the first to match detailed observations to models of what such an explosion might look like.

The fines against Merrill are the just the latest in a long series of Magnetar - related SEC settlements, now totaling more than $ 435 million.

Investors who subsequently invested in the CDOs were unaware of Magnetar's extensive role in the transactions.

«If the process here is similar, then about 10 percent of the magnetar's rotational energy loss is powering the nebula's glow, which would be the highest efficiency ever measured in such a system.»

The find offers a unique window into the properties, environment and outburst history of magnetars, which are the strongest magnets in the universe.

The discovery of the magnetar's former companion elsewhere in the cluster helps solve the mystery of how a star that started off so massive could become a magnetar, rather than collapse into a black hole.

A team of European astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) now believe they've found the partner star of a magnetar for the first time.

The brief life of a magnetar means that new ones must form at a rate of about one every thousand years in our galaxy.

This rapid rotation appears to be the essential ingredient in the formation of the magnetar's ultra-strong magnetic field.

The story of the magnetars began on March 5, 1979, when radiation monitors aboard space probes near Venus and Earth shot off the scale, saturated by a gamma - ray flash whose properties did not match those of any known phenomenon.

But, up to now, no companion star was detected at the location of the magnetar in Westerlund 1, so astronomers used the VLT to search for it in other parts of the cluster.

Scientists are still trying to figure out the complicated details of a magnetar eruption.

Yet according to detailed measurements of the relative motions of the surrounding stars, the team reports in an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics, that like every neighboring star, the mass of the magnetar's progenitor must have been at least 40 times greater than the sun's.

The spin rate of the magnetar may also be slower than average.

The immediate importance of this finding is that it provides a new and independent confirmation of the magnetar model.

This discovery also allows astronomers to pinpoint the exact location of the SGR to allow further study of the magnetar with other powerful telescopes.

«The data collected by Chandra show that this object has properties of a magnetar — a type of neutron star with extremely powerful magnetic fields trillions of times as powerful as those of the Sun that can erupt with enormous bursts of energy.»

In the units used by physicists, the strength of a magnetar's magnetic field is about a million billion Gauss; a refrigerator magnet has a field of about 100 Gauss.

The new study finds that the supernovae are likely powered by the creation of a magnetar, an extraordinarily magnetized neutron star spinning hundreds of times per second.

While the brightness of SN 2017egm and the properties of the magnetar that powers it overlap with those of other superluminous supernovas, the amount of mass ejected by SN 2017egm may be lower than the average event.

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.