superbursting

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ bursting.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

superbursting (not comparable)

1. Producing a superburst.
   • 1985, Raymond Barrio, A Political Portfolio, page 82:

     Last summer's featured creature was Caspar Weinberger's secret (and secretly recorded) speech. He spelled out why his administration is so fully committed to a superbursting armageddon program.

   • 2008, Rudy Wijnands, Diego Altamirano, Paolo Soleri, A decade of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars, →ISBN:

     ... how observations of quasi-persistent transient neutron stars probe the equation of state of dense matter; and how these observations compare with complimentary studies of quasi-persistent transients and superbursting neutron stars.

   • 2015, L. Keek, A. Cumming, Z. Wolf, D.R. Ballantyne, V.F. Suleimanov, E. Kuulkers, T.E. Strohmayer, “The imprint of carbon combustion on a superburst from the accreting neutron star 4U 1636-536”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     By fitting improved cooling models, we measure for the first time the radial temperature profile of the superbursting layer.

   • 2016, Jordi Jose, Stellar Explosions: Hydrodynamics and Nucleosynthesis, →ISBN, page 289:

     While most superbursting sources are observed to accrete continuously at a high rate, around 10% of the Eddington limit, a number of recent observations clearly at odds with thermonuclear ignition models have challenged the standard scenario.