compact object

collocation in English

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compact
adjective
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/kəmˈpækt/us
/kəmˈpækt/
consisting of parts that are positioned together closely or in a tidy way, using very ...
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object
noun
uk
/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us
/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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(Definition ofcompactandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The jets are formed close to thecompactobject, and timescales near thecompactobjectare proportional to the mass of thecompactobject.
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The brightest part of the system is the accretion disk around thecompactobject.
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Some binary star systems contain acompactobjectlike a neutron star or a black hole.
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X-rays from the region surrounding thecompactobjectheat and ionize this stellar wind.
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They may be created by magnetic fields within the gas that surrounds thecompactobject.
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In some cases thecompactobjectis a neutron star, but black holes are more common.
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The absence of such a signal does, however, not exclude the possibility that thecompactobjectis a neutron star.
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Whenever such properties are observed, thecompactobjectin the binary system is revealed as a neutron star.
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If such a system emits signals that can be directly traced back to thecompactobject, it can not be a black hole.
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Matter hitting a solid,compactobjectwould emit a final burst of energy, whereas material passing through an event horizon would not.
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The initial, high eccentricity orbits may also be a source of gravitational waves, emitting a short burst as thecompactobjectpasses through periapsis.
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In quasars, the black hole is supermassive (millions of solar masses); in microquasars, the mass of thecompactobjectis only a few solar masses.
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The soft state occurs when the disk draws closer to thecompactobject(possibly as close as), accompanied by cooling or ejection of the corona.
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The materials thrown off from the supernova explosion are ionized by the energy and thecompactobjectthat it can produce.
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It is generally used in the context of neutron star and black hole accretion for acompactobjecttraveling through the interstellar medium.
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The gravitational influence of thecompactobjectappears to be reshaping this stellar wind, producing a focused wind geometry rather than a spherically symmetrical wind.
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This equation entails that photon spheres can only exist in the space surrounding an extremelycompactobject(a black hole or possibly a neutron star).
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In an astronomical context, relativistic beaming commonly occurs in two oppositely-directed relativistic jets of plasma that originate from a centralcompactobjectthat is accreting matter.
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If there is acompactobjectin the supernova remnant, but no material to fall onto it, it would be very dim and could therefore avoid detection.
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Classified as a microquasar, it is believed to be acompactobjectin a binary system which is pulling in a stream of gas from an ordinary star companion.
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