Sentences with phrase «of the accretion scenarios»

Although the name has persisted, now we know that they are in fact the end states of low mass stars, and would only involve planets if a binary companion in one of the accretion scenarios above were in fact a large planet.

Not exact matches

The standard scenario for the birth of gas giants posits a continuation of the rocks - crashing - together process, also known as core accretion.

Weiss says that if the solar nebula was around in the first 4 million years of solar system formation, this would give support to the core accretion scenario, which is generally favored among scientists.

There are, however, a range of different scenarios for the production of these accretion disks.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

They discuss a unified scenario for understanding brightness variations from accretion discs around different types of stars and compact objects.

We discuss the existence of the long cycle and these flare properties in the backdrop of two rival scenarios to produce hard X-rays, a magnetic star - disk interaction and the accretion of blobs onto a secondary white dwarf.

Under the most accepted scenario, planets form over tens of millions of years from the slow accretion of dust, rocks, and gas.