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Meaning of "magnetar" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MAGNETAR

From magnet(ic) (st)ar, on the model of quasar.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MAGNETAR

ˈmæɡnɪtɑː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAGNETAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Magnetar is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MAGNETAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Magnetar

A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field. The magnetic field decay powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma rays. The theory regarding these objects was proposed by Robert Duncan and Christopher Thompson in 1992, but the first recorded burst of gamma rays thought to have been from a magnetar had been detected on March 5, 1979. During the following decade, the magnetar hypothesis has become widely accepted as a likely explanation for soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars. A recent progress in theory suggests that the energy deposition from these magnetars into the expanding supernova remnant could possibly explain some observed cases of unusually bright supernovae. Traditionally such bright events are thought to come from very large stars when they become pair-instability supernova. However, two papers published in 2010 by astrophysicists at the University of California Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara provided semi-analytical and numerical models to explain some of the brightest events ever seen, such as SN 2005ap and SN 2008es.

Definition of magnetar in the English dictionary

The definition of magnetar in the dictionary is a type of neutron star that has a very intense magnetic field, over 1000 times greater than that of a pulsar.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAGNETAR

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAGNETAR

magnet · magnet school · magnet steel · magnetic · magnetic anomaly · magnetic bottle · magnetic bubble · magnetic card reader · magnetic character reader · magnetic compass · magnetic confinement · magnetic constant · magnetic course · magnetic declination · magnetic dip · magnetic dipole moment · magnetic disk · magnetic domain · magnetic epoch · magnetic equator

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAGNETAR

acoustic guitar · all-star · altar · bass guitar · child star · co-star · electric guitar · five-star · Gibraltar · lead to the altar · mortar · nectar · North Star · plantar · pop star · rising star · rock star · scimetar · shooting star · Tatar

Synonyms and antonyms of magnetar in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «magnetar» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MAGNETAR

Find out the translation of magnetar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of magnetar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «magnetar» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

磁星
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

magnetar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

magnetar
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

magnetar
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المغناطيسي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

магнитар
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

magnetar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

magnetar
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

magnetar
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Magnetar
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

magnetar
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

マグネター
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

magnetar
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Magnetar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nam châm
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மாக்னெட்டார்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Magnetar
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

magnetar
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

magnetar
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

magnetarem
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

магнітар
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

magnetar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μάγναστρου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

magnetar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

magnetar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

magnetar
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of magnetar

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAGNETAR»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of magnetar
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about magnetar

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAGNETAR»

Discover the use of magnetar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to magnetar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Black Box Casino: How Wall Street's Risky Shadow Banking ...
Instead, the bank charged, Norma was “a dumping ground” for Merrill's worst CDO assets and was structured to benefit Magnetar, an important hedge fund client of Merrill's.26 Rabobank claimed that Magnetar played a role in selecting ...
Robert Stowe England, 2011
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Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial ...
According to press reports, Magnetar's investment strategy was to purchase the riskiest portion of a CDO – the equity – and, at the same time, to purchase short positions on other tranches of the same CDO. 1493 Thus, Magnetar would receive ...
Carl Levin (ed)
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Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial ...
Magnetar CDOs. Magnetar is a Chicago based hedge fillld that, according to press reports, worked with several financial institutions to create CDOs with riskier assets and then bet on those CDOs to fail. 1492 Deutsche Bank underwrote one of ...
Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, 2011
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Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Greatest Explosions ...
Spin down Isolated neutron stars with magnetar-strength fields spin down much faster than do neutron stars with fields in the normal pulsar range of 1011-1013 G . The spin-down timescale, or characteristic age, 2yr, (2.1) from integrating the ...
Mario Livio, Nino Panagia, Kailash Sahu, 2001
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Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity
Magnetar Capital had returned 25% in 2007—only its third year in business. This return was achieved with significantly lower risk than the S&P 500. Investors were happy; assets under management were among the largest of any hedge fund ...
David P. Stowell, 2012
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How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get ...
So, what was Magnetar's real play?The hedgefund bought the highreturn, highrisk equity slicesto giveit theincometo fundbigbets against thevalueof the mezzanine tranches in thedeals itcreated. Inother words, Magnetar usedthe high income ...
Les Leopold, 2012
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Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
billion Norma CDO, issued in . The equity investor, Magnetar Capital, a hedge fund, was executing a common strategy known as the correlation trade—it bought the equity tranche while shorting other tranches in Norma and other CDOs.
Phil Angelides, 2011
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: The Final Report of the ...
The equity investor, Magnetar Capital, a hedge fund, was executing a common strategy known as the correlation trade — it bought the equity tranche while shorting other tranches in Norma and other CDOs. According to court documents,  ...
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 2011
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the ...
The equity investor, Magnetar Capital, a hedge fund, was executing a common strategy known as the correlation trade — it bought the equity tranche while shorting other tranches in Norma and other CDOs. According to court documents,  ...
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (U.S.), Phil Angelides, Bill Thomas, 2011
10
The Transient Radio Sky
[30] to determine an SGR birthrate of βSGR ≈ 0.1 century−1 which we consider as a lower limit for the magnetar birthrate [65]. Similarly, an AXP birthrate was calculated by Gill and Heyl [19] using the same population synthesis methods used ...
Evan Francis Keane, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAGNETAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term magnetar is used in the context of the following news items.
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Awed by a magnetar | Cosmos Magazine
An illustration of a gamma-ray burst (white line) and supernova (red cloud) powered by a magnetar.Credit: European Southern Observatory. «Cosmos, Jul 15»
2
Photo by Shia Kapos Richard Levy
He sold his shares to partners and went to work for another hedge fund, Evanston-based Magnetar Capital, headed by Alec Litowitz. A 'GREAT ... «Crain's Chicago Business, Jul 15»
3
Magnetars, starquakes, and other amazing space oddities
Magnetars are monsters. If a rogue magnetar were to fly past us, it would lift metal objects off the surface of the Earth from 100,000 miles away. «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
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Astronomers Spot a Record-Breaking Supernova
... say the supernova is releasing so much energy that even a magnetar might not be powerful enough to produce it. Another possibility is that ... «io9, Jul 15»
5
Astronomers spy brightest-ever supernova
... say that the supernova is releasing so much energy that even a magnetar might not be powerful enough to produce it. Another possibility is ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Gamma-ray bursts that last thousands of times longer than normal …
A magnetar's 10^10 tesla field, by contrast, has an energy density of 4.0×10^25 J/m3, with an E/c2 mass density over 10000 times that of lead. «Next Big Future, Jul 15»
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This Week In Space: Signs Of Life And Love In Our Solar System
Add to that the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, and you get a magnetar. Just to make magnetars even more incredible, this week ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
8
A First: Connection found between Supernova and Magnetar
With the help of European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla and Paranal Observatories in Chile, experts have found a link between a ... «West Texas News, Jul 15»
9
Fort Reno: A guide to the 2015 season's remaining free concerts
Magnetar Flares play punk music, Rancho Notorious is a krautrock band a la Paperhaus, and Incredible Change, the most unique of the three, ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
Super-bright supernova with extreme burst of gamma radiation
"A magnetar has a magnetic field that is in the realm of a billiard times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field (a 1 followed by 15 zeros). «Space Daily, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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