Sentences with phrase «tidal interactions»

This alignment would be maintained even if the separation between the two is extended via tidal interactions.

Observation, and theoretical evidence suggests that the LMC and SMC have been greatly distorted by tidal interaction with the Milky Way as they orbit around it; streams of neutral hydrogen connect them to the Milky Way and to each other, and both resemble disrupted barred spiral galaxies.

Since hot Jupiter exoplanets are «phase locked» by tidal interactions (that is, the same side always faces the host star, just as the same side of our moon always faces us), there will be a large flow of heat from the highly irradiated «day side» to the cooler «night side».

The study indicates the ages of stars in these tidal features are synchronized to each other, and that these systems were produced by recent tidal interactions between M81, M82 and NGC 3077.

Abstract: The edge - on starburst galaxy M82 exhibits complicated distributions of gaseous materials in its halo, which include ionized superwinds driven by nuclear starbursts, neutral materials entrained by the superwinds, and large - scale neutral streamers probably caused by a past tidal interaction with M81.

The moon is thought to have formed closer to the Earth than it is now and spun faster, slowing down and moving away over time through tidal interactions with Earth.

Those other processes include collisions of giant gas clouds within galaxies, internal instabilities, tidal interactions during flybys of smaller galaxies, and minor mergers that don't produce conspicuous distortions.

It is rather early to speculate, but maybe Pluto captured Charon only a few hundred million years ago (rather than billions), and we are seeing the effect of the very strong tidal interactions that would have ensued.

A report in the journal Nature cites the discovery of a new planet, WASP - 18b, which challenges assumptions about tidal interactions — it's too close and orbiting too fast not to have collided with its star, according to current knowledge.

«When you're so close to the star, tidal interactions become so strong that they can rip apart the surface of a planet and destroy it,» says Roberto Sanchis - Ojeda, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hot Jupiters - One of the most surprising findings thus far is the detection of giant, Jupiter - class planets in orbits very close to their host stars (three within the range of tidal interaction with their stars).

Tidal interactions between close - in, gas - giant exoplanets and their host star should cause the orbits of the planets to decay.

We investigate detailed distributions of dust grains and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) a... ▽ More The edge - on starburst galaxy M82 exhibits complicated distributions of gaseous materials in its halo, which include ionized superwinds driven by nuclear starbursts, neutral materials entrained by the superwinds, and large - scale neutral streamers probably caused by a past tidal interaction with M81.

Science is able to record that the Earth's rotations are slowing down, NOT speeding up, due to tidal interactions with the Moon.

Team member Steinn Sigurdsson of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and his co-workers are exploring yet another option: that tidal interactions may destroy the giant planets.

In an article submitted to the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, they argue that the sun and Earth are literally pushing each other away due to their tidal interaction.

The recession is believed to result from gravitational or tidal interaction between the Earth and Moon.

The Milky Way galaxy, perturbed by the tidal interaction with a dwarf galaxy, as predicted by N - body simulations.

Figure 1: The Milky Way galaxy, perturbed by the tidal interaction with a dwarf galaxy, as predicted by N - body simulations.

Penev estimate the value of Q by comparing the observed spin period of the host star to the most likely spin period expected for that sort of star, if it had no planet, and so modelling how much the star has been spun up by the tidal interaction with the planet.

While spirals can be triggered by the tidal interaction with the companion, the close proximity of the spirals to the shadows suggests that the shadows could also play a role.