Open AccessThe white dwarf that acts like a pulsar
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49104_10.x
Subject(s) - white dwarf , pulsar , white (mutation) , physics , astronomy , astrophysics , stars , biology , genetics , gene
Periodic high‐energy X‐ray pulses have been picked up from a white dwarf – behaviour typical of a pulsar and not at all what was expected from these supposedly dying stars.