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Magnetar vs Null - What's the difference?

magnetar | null |

As nouns the difference between magnetar and null

is that magnetar is magnetar while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

magnetar

Noun

(en noun)
  • (star): A neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes]] occur, thought to be the source of some [[gamma-ray burst, gamma-ray bursts.
  • * 2007', S. Dall'Osso, L. Stella, ''Newborn '''magnetars''' as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of '''magnetar candidates'', Silvia Zane, Roberto Turolla, Dany Page (editors), ''Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior , page 119,
  • This signal could be detected with Advanced LIGO-class detectors up to the distance of the Virgo cluster, where ? 1 yr?1 magnetars are expected to form.
  • * 2008 , W. Becker, F, Haberl, J Trümper, 14: Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars'', Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), ''The Universe in X-Rays , page 193,
  • The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).
  • * 2011 , Yukikatsu Terada, Tadayasu Dotani, The International X-ray Observatiry and other X-ray missions, expectations for pulsar physics'', Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres (editors), ''High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and Their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics , page 576,
  • One of most mysterious feature[s] of magnetars' is their X-ray luminosities, which always exceed the rotational energy loss. Thus, the energy source of the radiation of ' magnetars is a mysterious question.

    See also

    * gamma ray

    Anagrams

    * ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----