Search Publications

A radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star

Gänsicke, B. T.; Dhillon, V. S.; Pala, A. F. +23 more

White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but approximately 200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths, but when in close orbits with less dense stars, white dwarfs can strip material from their companions and the resulting mass transfer can generate atomi…