Sentences with phrase «of magnetic fields from»

For the work's presentation at SFMOMA, Kubisch compiled a sequence of recordings of magnetic fields from various sites, including a security room in the basement of the museum; nearby locations such as Yerba Buena Gardens, a parking garage on Natoma Street, and Epicenter, a city - run space devoted to seismic safety; the Hoover Dam in Nevada; a power plant in Finland; server rooms in Austria, Germany, and Hong Kong; a Louis Vuitton store in Paris; and the Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The student will make extensive use of current - and next - generation telescope and computing facilities, including the ground - based Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA) instrument that has been designed in - house at QUB, to examine the coupling of magnetic fields from their photospheric footpoints, through to their outermost extremities in the solar corona.

Wang and his co-authors strung together a series of images which trace the formation of an S - shaped bundle of magnetic fields from which a set of loops peel off and grow upward into a multi-strand flux rope within a few minutes.

The simulations, which incorporate data from Voyager 1, show that the interaction of the magnetic fields from the sun and interstellar space squish the solar wind into two jets — what might be observed as two short tails.

The scientists plan to develop detailed simulations of the emergence of the magnetic field from the subsurface of the Sun into its atmosphere, as well as gain a three - dimensional view of plasma turbulence and magnetic reconnection in space that lead to plasma heating.

Researchers have found that an iron - containing mineral called dusty olivine, present in meteorites, retains a record of the magnetic field from the early solar system around 4.6 billion years ago.

Not exact matches

The company's mobile payment solution takes a two - pronged approach by combining a near - field communication (NFC) chip with the magnetic secure - transmission technology it acquired from LoopPay to transmit payment information between your device and a point - of - sale terminal.

But few authorities are planning for catastrophic solar storms — gigantic eruptions of mass and energy from the sun that disrupt Earth's magnetic field.

Birds can sense Earth's magnetic field, and this uncanny ability may help them fly home from unfamiliar places or navigate migrations that span tens of thousands of kilometers.

He won't be looking for elusive infrared photons, but instead will be taking rapid - fire images of plasma loops — coils of ionized gas trapped in billowing magnetic fields — arcing off the sun and peeking out from behind the moon.

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).

Heat from Earth's inner core, which is as hot as the surface of the sun, churns an outer core of molten iron and nickel, generating a magnetic field that deflects lethal cosmic and solar radiation away from the planet.

Magnetic fields make the higher energy levels split into two new levels, so electrons dive from two different platforms and emit different particles of light.

The variation of the field strength is only a few percent of the applied magnetic field strength for now, but this is a significant first step to overcome the problem of detaching the plasma from the MN in the plasma thruster.

«The Earth's magnetic field protects life on the surface from the full impact of these solar outbursts,» says John Foster, associate director of MIT's Haystack Observatory.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

Because Mars no longer has a global magnetic field to protect it, solar wind might strip away material from the upper layers of the atmosphere.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

A solenoid is basically a cylindrical electromagnet that generates a very uniform magnetic field inside the cylinder; the uniform field makes it easier to calculate the momentum of particles produced from collisions.

The team captured images of «solar braiding,» the transfer of energy from the sun's magnetic fields to the corona, theorized in 1983 but never observed.

Using new data gathered from sites in southern Africa, University of Rochester researchers have extended their record of Earth's magnetic field back thousands of years to the first millennium.

A study of real - world exposure to non-ionizing radiation from magnetic fields in pregnant women found a significantly higher rate of miscarriage, providing new evidence regarding their potential health risks.

These electrons, known as photoelectrons, have a very specific energy of 24.1 electronvolts, which means they can be traced by the CAPS instrument, and easily distinguished from other electrons, as they propagate through the surrounding magnetic field.»

The model derives from a general lattice field theory, which is typically used to describe the quantum behavior of electrons in magnetic and electronic materials.

In the absence of a magnetic field, Tarduno says the protons that make up the solar winds would have ionized and stripped light elements from the atmosphere, which, among other things, resulted in the loss of water.

The team analysed data gathered over seven years by the international Cassini probe, and found that the interactions between Titan's atmosphere, and the solar magnetic field and radiation, create a wind of hydrocarbons and nitriles being blown away from its polar regions into space.

Rim Fares at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, and colleagues, studied light from the star Tau Boötis to deduce the strength and orientation of its magnetic field.

Exposure to non-ionizing radiation from magnetic fields in pregnant women appears to be linked to a significantly higher rate of miscarriage.

Scientists have proposed that heat emanating outward from the planet's core may pass through an inner layer of superionic ice, and through convection, create vortices on the outer layer of ionic water that give rise to local magnetic fields.

Tarduno's new results are based on the record of magnetic field strength fixed within magnetite found within zircon crystals collected from the Jack Hills of Western Australia.

In order to put these relatively recent changes into historical perspective, Rochester researchers — led by John Tarduno, a professor and chair of EES — gathered data from sites in southern Africa, which is within the South Atlantic Anomaly, to compile a record of Earth's magnetic field strength over many centuries.

Earth's magnetic field protects the atmosphere from solar winds — streams of charged particles shooting from the Sun.

THE PROBLEM Earth's magnetic field sculpts the dancing lights of the aurora borealis, aims compass needles, and most crucially, protects us from potentially lethal particles spewed by the sun.

After correcting the logs for errors in location, Gubbins compared the directions of captains» compass needles with the magnetic properties of rocks from the same period, allowing him to construct a time line of movements in the magnetic field.

Earth's magnetic field is generated in its liquid iron core, and this «geodynamo» requires a regular release of heat from the planet to operate.

In 23 fly - bys which passed through Titan's ionosphere or its magnetic tail, CAPS detected measurable quantities of these photoelectrons up to 6.8 Titan radii away from the moon, because they can easily travel along the magnetic field lines.

The shock waves from such stellar explosions, or the magnetic fields of the superdense neutron stars left behind, were thought to be able to boost particles from the explosion and surrounding region to very high energies.

The ripples spreading out below the pulsar like waves on a lake show where streams of electrons and positrons, shooting away from the pulsar at nearly the speed of light, begin to bunch up along the pulsar's changing magnetic field.

«When you burn clay at very high temperatures, you actually stabilize the magnetic minerals, and when they cool from these very high temperatures, they lock in a record of the Earth's magnetic field,» Tarduno says.

Pulsars, according to conventional theory, are neutron stars with immense magnetic fields — about a trillion times the strength of Earth's — that funnel hydrogen pulled from their red - giant neighbor continuously down onto their magnetic poles.

«Our interpretation is that energy is transferred from the magnetic field to power the flare, leaving a pocket of reduced magnetic support that causes an implosion.

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.

A research team in India has developed a set of numerical computations to shed light on this phenomenon, and present this week in Physics of Plasmas, from AIP Publishing, analysis examining the role of chaotic magnetic fields in potential heating mechanisms.

A second set of lasers then slowed and cooled this ion vapour, while magnetic fields kept the ions from hitting the chamber walls.

More common lower - energy cosmic rays — thought to emerge in the aftermath of supernova explosions in the Milky Way — curve so much in the galaxy's magnetic field that they appear to come from all over the sky.

The latest observations, reported online January 10 in Nature and at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, suggest the bursts are coming from an environment with an unusually strong magnetic field.

If axions exist, they are expected to interact with photons, particles of light, from the magnetic field.

The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.

The chance alignment of the sun's and Earth's magnetic fields shielded the planet from the intense October 28 eruption.

In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.