The plunging pirouette of two low-mass stars
Abstract
Astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility have discovered two white dwarfs orbiting each other every 6.9 minutes. But there is nothing transient about the gravitational waves emitted from this binary: the stars will produce persistent ripples in spacetime for millennia.
- Publication:
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Nature Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- August 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s41550-019-0863-3
- Bibcode:
- 2019NatAs...3..690H