Fast Spinning B Star inside the Bubble

Ziljan

Ziljan
Surly Badger pointed out a sight seeing point of interest and asked me to share it on the forums. It's a B Star called R CORONAE AUSTRINI A located at (0, -26, 76), which is only about 80LY from Sol. It is 10 Solar Masses, and it rotates about 30 times per minute! It looks very bizarre when there is a flare happening, as in the video below.

Here are it's vital stats:

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It looks like a pulsar from far away:

[video=youtube_share;yxSBYsCmeGQ]https://youtu.be/yxSBYsCmeGQ[/video]

And here is the actual video of it spinning from up close:

[video=youtube_share;wM5A0rKZ5as]https://youtu.be/wM5A0rKZ5as[/video]
 
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Mephane

Mephane
What the. This is well within the range of pulsar-level rotation periods.

Also, with that angular speed, the star would have to massively bulge out; apparently, this effect is not yet implemented.
 
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Ziljan

Ziljan
Mephane said:
What the. This is well within the range of pulsar-level rotation periods.

Also, with that angular speed, the star would have to massively bulge out; apparently, this effect is not yet implemented.
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Not for stars, but they do have deformation for planets with high spin or if they are hot jupters that are tidally locked.

I am updating with another movie that I took in my Cobra from a distance which looks quite a bit like what you might imagine a Pulsar would. However this is just a young star that still has it's angular momentum from the initial collapse, and hasn't lost it to interactions of the magnetic field with it's disk. Probably because it has no planets. Also, this star is hot enough that it is good for testing how ships behave near pulsars/NS. In fact, I am going to recommend that new explorers visit this star so they can get used to the neutron fields. Real NS are much smaller and you need to stop when the star looks much farther away. Even though in reality, this star will knock you out of SC at 15Ls, which is average SC distance for NS.

I found a Neutron Star within 400 LY of Sol called HR 7029, in case anyone is interested in trying out a real one.
 
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Ziljan

Ziljan
Ziggy Stardust said:
Nice find CMDR!
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I'd love to take credit, but this was actually Badger's find ;) I am just the camera man.

Anyone within the Bubble can see this quite easily since it is only 80 LY from Sol. A hidden gem in human space. Flying towards it is very strange because the pulsing seems to intensify until it resolves into surface features, at which point you want to hit the brakes quick because it is HOT. Not quite Pulsar hot, but close enough.
 

Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
Wow this is an amazing find -Surley Badger- and excellent shot and video -Ziljan-

Will rep when back to PC!! Now I want to go and check it out when I return!!

Thanks for sharing!
 

drkaii

drkaii
I just visited it and I couldn't get it to pulse like that. Tried various combinations of Bloom, FX Quality, Blur and Shadow, and various distances. Could you post your settings, the distance you filmed that and maybe your theories about maybe it had a lot of solar flares or something at the time?
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
The pulse is actually caused by a solar flare rotating around the star. If there is no solar flare, then there is no pulse. Leave the system, and fly back to reset the flare state.
 

streki

streki
Visiting this system now....

This has to be the most interesting object I've seen in ED so far. Kudos to Lycanlnx for getting the first discovery.


You can even see the huge flare in the system map:
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