Sentences with phrase «rapid rotation»

Stars formed in such a process should have very rapid rotation, but this is not the case.

There exist theories suggesting that strong magnetic fields coupled with rapid rotation act as whirling rotary blades to fling out the nearby gas.

My favorite location, though, is an asteroid near Mercury that has been knocked off its orbit and sent into rapid rotation.

He tested it on the nearby star Altair in 2006, and found that he could clearly see how the star's rapid rotation whips it up into a roughly egglike shape.

«What may have made this star special was an extremely rapid rotation,» Kasen said.

Or it may have formed a bigger, spinning neutron star that, propped up by its own rapid rotation, existed for a few milliseconds — or potentially much longer — before collapsing.

Volker Bromm, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Texas, Austin, says rapid rotation «could also lead to a special class of energetic supernova explosions called hypernovae, with unusual chemical abundance patterns.»

In addition to variations in chemical composition — both because of the initial abundances and the star's evolutionary status, [34] interaction with a close companion, [35] rapid rotation, [36] or a magnetic field can also change a main sequence star's position slightly on the HR diagram, to name just a few factors.

Some of the newly formed ones have been detected because their rapid rotation sends radio pulses our way multiple times per second.

While the moons» rapid rotation would be enough to squash them into a smooth oval it can't explain the rim around the centre of the saucer shape.

«It is the rapid rotation that creates a different and very strong magnetic field.

The rapid rotation created by mass transfer between the two stars appears necessary to generate the ultra-strong magnetic field and then a second mass transfer phase allows the magnetar - to - be to slim down sufficiently so that it does not collapse into a black hole at the moment of its death.

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

RAPID ROTATION A robot made entirely of DNA can rotate its arm (purple) 360 degrees or lock it down in certain positions thanks to special latches (yellow) on the bot's platform.

Astronomers recently discovered that it is the flattest star known, measuring more than 50 percent wider across the equator than from pole to pole; rapid rotation is responsible.

The corresponding narrow line in the quasar's spectrum is broadened by the disk's rapid rotation — the broader the line, the faster the rotation and the more massive the black hole.

Previous studies predicted that when supermassive stars collapse, they maintain a spherical shape that possibly becomes flattened due to rapid rotation.

«As matter falls into a black hole, it starts to spin and the rapid rotation pushes some fraction of the matter out,» Kaaret says.

The researchers used a table built on air bearings that can spin at 120 revolutions per minute and support a load of up to 1,000 kilograms (about 2,200 pounds), meaning that it could spin a large tank of fluid at high speed in a way that mimics Jupiter's rapid rotation.

The challenge to re-creating swirling winds in the lab was building a model of a planet with three key attributes believed to be necessary for jets to form: rapid rotation, turbulence and a «curvature effect» that mimics the spherical shape of a planet.

The rapid rotation regime is defined by the Rossby deformation radius being less than planetary radius, which occurs for planets with rotation rate < 5 days.

The strong wind of high - energy particles moving away from the pulsar at close to the speed of light is believed to have been produced by a combination of rapid rotation and an intense magnetic field.

This can be the case with a rapid rotation of the field vector in response to the flare.

The gas planets are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium and generally have low densities, rapid rotation, deep atmospheres, rings and lots of satellites.

Movement of this heat toward the poles is strongly affected by Earth's rapid rotation and the associated Coriolis force at latitudes away from the Equator (which adds an east - west...