Sentences with phrase «size of the magnetic field»

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This captures the size and direction of Earth's magnetic field.

They think a very strong magnetic field, tens of trillions of times the size of Earth's and much stronger even than a normal pulsar's field, generates the bursting pulsar's signals.

Functional materials are those with controlled composition, size, and structure to facilitate desired interactions with light, electrical or magnetic fields, or chemical environment to provide unique functionality in a wide range of applications from energy to medicine.

Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal show micron - sized spheres coming together under the influence of a rapidly spinning magnetic field.

The long - held assumption was that it takes a planet the size of Earth to insulate a molten iron core, whose currents and eddies act as a dynamo to generate a magnetic field.

Magnetars have the mass of the sun packed into a star the size of a city and have magnetic fields a hundred trillion times that of Earth.

Although their size and makeup are similar, Ganymede has become a proper moon with its own magnetic field, whereas Callisto has remained a bland ball of ice and rock.

As the structures are so tiny — each grain is only about the size of a virus — there is only one method with which the nanovortices can directly be observed while they are heated up and cooled down: «A special high - resolution electron microscope at the Ernst Ruska - Centre (ER - C) in Jülich is capable of making magnetic fields on the nanoscale holographically visible,» explains Almeida.

Because the magnetic fields are precisely known, the size of the cloud is an absolute measure of the atoms» energy and temperature.

In certain magnetic materials, the electrical conductivity of a thin layer of material changes in steps as a small magnetic field is varied, increasing and decreasing in jumps of a certain size.

Since their theory predicts a specific relation between the size of the black hole — or star cluster — and the galaxy's magnetic field strength, future observations may put their ideas to the test.

Any magnetic field it encounters changes the size of the vibrations, thereby giving a way of mapping the magnetism of the sample.

But by chance, the size and quality of the magnetic field it can generate is almost perfect for probing the origins of cosmic chemistry, says chief MRI - hacker, David Jenkins of the University of York.

Magnetars have the mass of the sun packed into a star the size of a city and have magnetic fields a hundred trillion times that of the Earth.

Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series of each participant was acquired for a period of 8 min on a 3 tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner [three - dimensional PRESTO, repetition time / echo time 22 ms / 32 ms, flip angle 9 °; SENSE p / s 2/2; a dynamic scan time of 0.5 s, 1000 time frames; field of view 256 × 256 mm, voxel size 4 × 4 × 4 mm, 32 slices covering whole brain (supplemental material, available at www.jneurosci.org)-RSB-.

When a microrobot is exposed to an external magnetic field — the offboard power source, given the difficulty in shrinking batteries to the size of bacteria — it begins to spin and move in a manner similar to bacterial flagella, courtesy of the iron oxide debris.

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.

The Earth's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind over a volume much greater than the size of the Earth.

During a few close passes, NASA's $ 1.1 billion Juno spacecraft collected data on the gas giant that revealed cyclones the size of Earth and a surprisingly strong magnetic field.