ASTROPHYSICS: Astronomers Spot Their First Carbon Bomb

Autor: R, Irion
Rok vydání: 2007
Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 290(5495)
ISSN: 0036-8075
Popis: Carbon on the surface of an ultradense star detonated in a 3-hour thermonuclear explosion, according to a report at a meeting here last week of the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division. If confirmed, the burst would be the first known cosmic explosion fueled solely by carbon rather than hydrogen or helium and could verify or revise models of carbon combustion.
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