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Mysterious radio pulses traced to rare pair of stars 5,000 light-years away
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- Researchers linked long-period radio transient pulses to a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star.
- The pulses arrive roughly every eight minutes, per the sources.
- The system is described as the first known of its kind, located about 5,000 light-years away.
Why it matters
The discovery identifies a new class of radio transient and points to binary interactions and magnetic activity as possible drivers, which bears on how such sources are classified and studied.
Who’s affected
- astronomers studying radio transients and compact objects
- researchers in stellar binary evolution
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- #white dwarf
- #binary stars
- #long-period radio transient
- #stellar magnetism
Radio pulses every eight minutes reveal a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star, the first known system of its kind, and expose stellar storms thousands of light-years away.
Timeline
Discovery of the long-period radio transient with a Sun-like companion published in Nature Astronomy
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A long-period transient with a Sun-like companion
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