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superbursting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From super- + bursting.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Producing a superburst.
    • 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. 1985, Raymond Barrio, A Political Portfolio, page 82:
    • 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. 2016, Jordi Jose, Stellar Explosions: Hydrodynamics and Nucleosynthesis, →ISBN, page 289:
    • By fitting improved cooling models, we measure for the first time the radial temperature profile of the superbursting layer. 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:
    • ... 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. 2008, Rudy Wijnands, Diego Altamirano, Paolo Soleri, A decade of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars, →ISBN: