Monitoring magnetospheres
May 25, 2015
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Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 PhD student Matt Shultz is researching magnetic, massive stars, and his research has uncovered questions concerning the behaviour of plasma within their magnetospheres.
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Drawing upon the extensive dataset assembled by the international Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) collaboration, led by Mr. Shultz카지노 게임 컬렉션s supervisor, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s professor Gregg Wade, along with some of his own observations collected with both the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the European Southern Observatory카지노 게임 컬렉션s Very Large Telescope, Mr. Shultz is conducting the first systematic population study of magnetosphere-host stars.
카지노 게임 컬렉션All massive stars have winds: supersonic outflows of plasma driven by the stars카지노 게임 컬렉션 intense radiation. When you put this plasma inside a magnetic field you get a stellar magnetosphere,카지노 게임 컬렉션 explains Mr. Shultz (Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy). 카지노 게임 컬렉션Since the 1980s, theoretical models have generally found that the plasma should escape the magnetosphere in sporadic, violent eruptions called centrifugal breakout events, triggered when the density of plasma grows beyond the ability of the magnetic field to contain.
카지노 게임 컬렉션However, no evidence of this dramatic process has yet been observed, so the community has increasingly been calling that narrative into question.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Before now, obvious disagreements with theory had been noted primarily for a single, particularly well-studied star. Studying the full population of magnetic, massive stars with detectable magnetospheres, Mr. Shultz has determined that the plasma density within all such magnetospheres is far lower than the limiting value implied by the centrifugal breakout model. This suggests that plasma might be escaping gradually, maintaining magnetospheres in an essentially steady state.
카지노 게임 컬렉션We don카지노 게임 컬렉션t know yet what is going on,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Mr. Shultz. 카지노 게임 컬렉션But, when centrifugal breakout was first identified as the most likely process for mass escape, only the simplest diffusive mechanisms were ruled out. Our understanding of space plasmas has developed quite a bit since then. We now need to go back and look more closely at the full range of diffusive mechanisms and plasma instabilities. There are plenty to choose from: the real challenge is developing the theoretical tools that will be necessary to test them.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Mr. Shultz is presenting his research at the at McMaster 카지노게임사이트.