Questions tagged [magnetic-field]
Questions regarding magnetic fields.
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How is angular momentum transferred between a neutron star and its accretion disk?
Accreting neutron stars can either gain or loose angular momentum via interaction with their accretion disks. This leads to either spin-up or spin-down. Which of the two is the case, depends on the ...
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Do narrow lines in the spectra of O- and B- type stars always indicate magnetic fields?
I was reading a paper on the differential emission measures of a set of hot O- and B- type stars. As the authors discuss in Section 3 (page 959), two stars, $\tau$ Sco and $\theta^1$ Ori C, have ...
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How do magnetic fields mess with astronomers' observations?
Does anyone else watch 'Dr. Becky' on YouTube?
Her March 'Night Sky News' video, subtitled 'The biggest black hole burp, a wobbly Milky Way & Betelgeuse is brighter' says that...
"Dust and ...
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Why is our heliosphere an asymmetric croissant shape?
The big, recent astronomy news about our heliosphere's asymmetric croissant shape has me confused....
Some articles mention the influence on our solar system's outermost boundary of very hot cations, ...
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Cause of ~10 minute Oscillations in Low Energy Electron Flux in Earth's Magnetosphere
I am analyzing data from an instrument that measures low energy electron flux at Geo-Stationary orbit. There are sharp oscillations in the particle flux of 30 eV electrons occurring from about noon ...
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Which moons do have neutrospheres?
Or in other words: which moons do have ionospheres but not surface-bound ones? The space beneath an ionosphere is called a neutrosphere. I only know of Titan. I know that the Galilean moons and Triton ...
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Would magnetic reversals on Ganymede affect radiation levels at the surface?
Currently the intrinsic magnetic field of Ganymede is anti-aligned with respect to the Jovian magnetic field. If this situation changed to become aligned, either due to magnetic reversals of the ...
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Superconducting space dust; what transient fields could induce persistent current loops?
Science Alert's Superconductivity Has Been Discovered in Meteorites For The First Time quotes from Superconductivity found in meteorites (Wampler et al. PNAS March 23, 2020)
The paper describes the ...
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What is the sun's maximum influence on a magnetic object?
How much magnetic repulsion could the sun's magnetic field produce on an magnetic object? Consider the object is ideal: It could be flat, to create more resistance, balanced, to stay on the opposing ...
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Is the magnetic field strength of a star predictable from mass, composition, age and angular momentum alone?
This answer to Which stellar properties can we describe as “first principles” in which we can derive the rest? contains an intriguing bit:
That states that composition and mass are the two key ...
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What influence does the Interplanetary Magnetic Field have on Planetary Orbits?
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The equation $F_D=\frac{GMm}{D^2}$ is a standard equation in Newtonian gravitation. It describes the centripetal force exerted, by a source mass$M$, on a target particle of mass $m$ located ...
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Can we determine where the north and south magnetic poles are on stars and black holes?
The question is related to this about Are there collected data about the direction of rotation of black holes and the direction of the magnetic field?. Perhaps it is observable for pulsars?
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Energy of a charged particle in the magnetosphere
I asked this question on physics.stackexchange, but as it is a space/magnetosphere question maybe someone here can help me out:
Taking the earth as an idealized dipole and the E field from the sun ...
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Magneto tail effect on the other planet in a binary planet system
Let's say there are 2 earth sized planets orbiting each other around 750,000km apart and at a distance of roughly 1.2 AU from a sunlike star with a mass of 1.105 solar masses. Since they are binary, ...
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Do planetary magnetic fields slow the movement of conductive extraplanetary moving objects via induction?
A fixed magnetic field will induce an electrical current in a conductive object moving through the field. The strength of the eddy currents will depend on the shape and composition of the conductor ...
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What does it mean that a black hole has a magnetic field?
Black holes have a magnetic field around them. What does this mean for the interior of the holes? That a net electric charge is "flowing in one direction?" Or at least a net current was ...
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Can the magnetic field of the sun exist without the field of the Milky Way?
I read a question about the oceans on Earth. They can generate a magnetic field. But they will only do so in the presence of the field already generated by Earth. It was said that if they were deep ...
