Question
Matter caught in the forward and reverse shock at the heads of these features forms cocoons that surround and shape them. In models based on a paper by Donald Lynden-Bell, these features remain Poynting-flux-dominated over large distances due to “magnetic towers” that are laterally stabilized by ambient gas. SS 433 was the first known binary system to display these features, making that system the first microquasar. The opening angle of these features determines the shape of a namesake break in gamma ray burst afterglow light curves after which the curves dramatically steepen. The formation of these features by young stars was discovered by George Herbig and Guillermo Haro. Around black holes, these features are sustained by magnetic fields generated in accretion disks. For 10 points, name these highly collimated ejections of plasma pointing along the axis of rotation of galactic nuclei. ■END■
Summary
2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 76% | 0% | 43% | 116.56 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Vincent Du | North Carolina A | Iowa State A | 65 | 10 |
Geoffrey Chen | Cornell A | Virginia A | 65 | 10 |
John John Groger | Columbia A | UC Berkeley B | 71 | 10 |
Albert Zhang | Columbia B | Indiana A | 71 | 10 |
Brad MacLaine | Texas A | WUSTL B | 101 | -5 |
Alan Xie | Yale B | Purdue A | 107 | -5 |
Daniel Ma | Yale A | Ohio State A | 108 | 10 |
Shahar Schwartz | UC Berkeley A | Imperial A | 114 | -5 |
Steven Liu | MIT A | Georgia Tech A | 114 | -5 |
Vishal Kanigicherla | Penn A | Chicago A | 116 | -5 |
Shardul Rao | Minnesota A | Houston A | 117 | -5 |
Aidan Fein | Vanderbilt A | Rutgers A | 118 | -5 |
Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Georgia Tech B | 121 | -5 |
Jason Hong | Brown A | Northwestern A | 121 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | NYU A | Cornell B | 126 | -5 |
Robert Condron | Chicago C | Duke A | 129 | 10 |
Tracy Mirkin | Florida A | Toronto A | 130 | 10 |
John Marvin | Chicago B | Johns Hopkins A | 131 | 10 |
Justin Duffy | Harvard A | Maryland A | 131 | 10 |
Adam Fine | Chicago A | Penn A | 140 | 10 |
Matt Schiavone | Purdue A | Yale B | 140 | 10 |
Alex Li | Georgia Tech A | MIT A | 140 | 10 |
Dan Ni | Cornell B | NYU A | 141 | 10 |
Michael Mays | Imperial A | UC Berkeley A | 141 | 0 |
Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Illinois A | 141 | 0 |
Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Michigan A | 141 | 0 |
S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Minnesota B | 141 | 0 |
Joelle Smart | Rutgers A | Vanderbilt A | 141 | 10 |
June Yin | WUSTL B | Texas A | 141 | 0 |
Charles Hang | WUSTL A | South Carolina A | 141 | 10 |
Isak Jatoi | South Carolina A | WUSTL A | 141 | 0 |
John Broussard | Houston A | Minnesota A | 141 | 0 |