Sentences with word «starquake»

Some say they are the result of celestial collisions, or of starquakes occurring on extremely powerful neutron stars.

The afterglow is believed to be the aftermath of a massive starquake on the neutron star's surface.

Baglin and everyone else immediately realized that a spacecraft designed to detect the light fluctuations caused by starquakes might also be able to detect a planet.

The star's magnetic field, trillions of times stronger than Earth's, is thought to have triggered an enormous starquake that released more energy than the sun emits in 200 millennia.

After about 10,000 years, the star has cooled off, and its field has decayed so much that it no longer triggers starquakes; at that point, the gamma - ray flares die out.

Observations of starquake vibrations allow researchers to deduce how much hydrogen remains, revealing a kind of time stamp.

For example, he says, gamma - ray bursts originating from magnetars — the most highly magnetized versions of neutron stars — arise when energy buildups periodically cause the crust to rupture, in phenomena called starquakes.

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What the search for planetary transits has in common with the observation of starquakes is the need to stare at the same stars for a long time — long enough to detect very slow vibrations or to detect at least three transits of a planet.

Current observatories could also help reveal what makes spinning neutron stars called pulsars tick, mapping their starquake - shaken interiors and any centimeters - high «mountains» (which would weigh roughly the mass of a planet because of neutron stars» extreme density) that could pop up on their surfaces.

Otherwise, you can't be sure it was really a starquake or a planet you saw, and not random fluctuations in the starlight.

Magnetar surfaces release vast quantities of gamma rays when they undergo a sudden adjustment known as a starquake as a result of the huge stresses in their crusts.

According to the model, a magnetar's intense magnetism bends and deforms its crust to produce a series of starquakes.

This would affect the «starquakes» that are thought to be important in some pulsars, producing sudden changes, known as glitches, in their spin rate.

One such short GRB — caused by a starquake on a dense stellar corpse called a neutron star — was observed in the Milky Way in December 2004 (see Starquake explosion rips neutron star open).

That let them bring in two other kinds of observations: ground - based telescopic observations of the infinitesimal color changes of the star induced by the planet's gravitational tugging and Kepler measurements of «starquakes» that reveal more about the nature of the star.

Such a period change or «glitch» can be explained if the pulsar altered its radius by about one centimetre; this sudden shrinkage of the crust is sometimes called a «starquake.»

Next, the magnetic field is predicted to cause «starquakes» in which the solid crust of the neutron star is cracked, releasing energy.