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Localized thermonuclear bursts from accreting magnetic white dwarfs

Knigge, C.; de Martino, D.; Done, C. +16 more

Nova explosions are caused by global thermonuclear runaways triggered in the surface layers of accreting white dwarfs^1-3. It has been predicted^4-6 that localized thermonuclear bursts on white dwarfs can also take place, similar to type-I X-ray bursts observed in accreting neutron stars. Unexplained rapid bursts from the binar…