Sentences with phrase «shape of the magnetic field»

The spectrum these teams measure during the eclipse won't translate immediately to a measurement of the strength or shape of the magnetic field.

Not exact matches

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), an experimental reactor currently being built in the south of France, will house the world's largest ever tokamak — a doughnut - shaped reactor that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma.

These features trace the corona's magnetic field, which guides coronal plasma to take on the shape of tubes and sheets.

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.

This illustration shows how that bubble is shaped by the interstellar magnetic field and flow of particles from interstellar space.

But solar flares — the brief, intense flashes of light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.

OLEV receives power wirelessly through the application of the «Shaped Magnetic Field in Resonance (SMFIR)» technology.

Recent computer simulations incorporating the geometry of ITER's doughnut - shaped reaction chamber and its powerful, plasma - confining magnetic fields have helped researchers predict the behavior of turbulent plasma inside the machine.

As a postdoc in the tokamak turbulence theory group, I am currently involved in further developing our numerical methods, and I continue my work on the influence of magnetic field shape in tokamaks such as ASDEX Upgrade.

The radiation belts are two donut - shaped regions of highly energetic particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field — the inner, located just above our atmosphere and extending 4,000 miles into space; and the outer, from 8,000 to 26,000 miles out — and are named for their discoverer (as are the probes), the late James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa.

For my doctoral thesis I investigated effects of the particular magnetic field shape from different experiments, such as WENDELSTEIN 7 - X, on this drift instability and turbulence.

«Instead of a prolonged, comet - like tail, this rough bubble - shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field — much stronger than what was anticipated in the past — combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,» said Kostas Dialynas, a space scientist at the Academy of Athens in Greece and lead author on the study.

«When the magnetic moments of the electrons are aligned in a magnetic field, the electron cloud shape and the atomic arrangement become more symmetric and homogenous.

Its heart is a giant doughnut - shaped magnet with a magnetic field 3,000 times that of Earth.

Each subject's brain is comprehensively imaged once a year using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technique that employs an electromagnetic field to detect the shape and density of tissue.

Magnetic field lines, erupting from a dynamo inside the sun, sculpt the corona into a menagerie of shapes with different names: loops, streamers, empty holes and mass ejections that burp outwards.

Earth's magnetic field creates a comet - shaped cavity in the solar wind, a constant stream of charged particles from the sun.

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.

Wüthrich found a way to determine the precise shape of a very large biomolecule by studying how its hydrogen nuclei wobble when exposed to carefully tuned magnetic fields — a phenomenon known as nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR.

The team then put each group in a T - shaped maze that had a magnetic field in one side of the T and no magnetic field in the other.

Geophysicists have traced the process back to early in Earth's history by measuring magnetic fields in ancient rocks, and some have attempted to extrapolate from the present motion of the plates the likely shape of the next supercontinent.

Binary central stars, stellar discs and magnetic fields have been suggested as the mechanism that produces such a variety of shapes.

This important tool consists of a chain of specially shaped magnetic fields at the edge of the plasma intersected by 10 divertor plates.

Sunspots come in many sizes and shapes and are locations of strong magnetic fields that extend from below the solar surface through the solar atmosphere into the interplanetary medium.

One must consider the various effects that alter the measured polarized signal, such as the shape of dust grains, the efficiency of grain alignment, the magnetic field properties, a... ▽ More (Sub --RRB- Millimeter observations of the polarized emission of aligned aspherical dust grains enable us to study the magnetic fields within protoplanetary disk.

Three - dimensional simulations have reinforced this theory, showing fan - shaped jets being formed during shearing reconnection between horizontal magnetic fields and a vertical current sheet, with the base of the jets corresponding to the location of magnetic reconnection [6].

When they reach the earth, some 40 hours after leaving the sun, they follow the lines of magnetic force generated by the earth's core and flow through the magnetosphere, a teardrop - shaped area of highly charged electrical and magnetic fields.

The Sun has a magnetic field that, at first glance, might remind us of the middle - school experiment where you sprinkle iron filings over a bar magnet to get a butterfly shape.

A relatively recent version in Liliane Lijn's series focusing on the shape of the cone, Lost Koan has its parallel in the space above the earth's poles where the solar wind meets with the earth's magnetic field, referred to by astrophysicist Dr Stephen B. Mende as the «lost cone».

Systematic differences in the overall shape of successive 11 - year modulation cycles and similarities in the alternate 11 - year cycles seem to be related to the polarity reversals of the polar magnetic field of the Sun.