X-ray Signals from White Dwarf Planet Destruction
What can x-rays tell us about the remains of planets orbiting dead stars?
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What can x-rays tell us about the remains of planets orbiting dead stars?
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How do you make a supernova without hydrogen and helium lines? The answer may surprise you! (It’s probably binary stars)
T Pyx is a mystery. The stellar systems appears to contain a white dwarf and companion star. However, the white dwarf is accreting mass from its companion way faster and way more efficiently than it should, resulting in novae eruptions every 30 years.
Today’s authors may have found the culprit for these frequent explosive hydrogen burnings, which should not be possible in theory.
How do moons form in the universe? Astronomers recently gathered direct evidence for the formation of moons around exoplanets!
Exploring the role of radiative feedback on the close environments near AGN.
Today’s paper looks at GD 424, a very hungry white dwarf that is accreting planets!