A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon

I Caiazzo, KB Burdge, J Fuller, J Heyl, SR Kulkarni… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
White dwarfs represent the last stage of evolution of stars with mass less than about eight
times that of the Sun and, like other stars, are often found in binaries,. If the orbital period of …

A systematic search of Zwicky transient facility data for ultracompact binary LISA-detectable gravitational-wave sources

KB Burdge, TA Prince, J Fuller, DL Kaplan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable
Gravitational-wave Sources - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site …

General relativistic orbital decay in a seven-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary system

KB Burdge, MW Coughlin, J Fuller, T Kupfer, EC Bellm… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
General relativity predicts that short-orbital-period binaries emit considerable amounts of
gravitational radiation. The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is …

A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces

I Caiazzo, KB Burdge, PE Tremblay, J Fuller, L Ferrario… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are
characterized by a mass comparable to that of the Sun compressed into the size of an Earth …

Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

AYQ Ho, DA Perley, P Chen, S Schulze, V Dhillon… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last
only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism from …

A shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron stars

FM Vincentelli, J Neilsen, AJ Tetarenko, Y Cavecchi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Accretion disks around compact objects are expected to enter an unstable phase at high
luminosity. One instability may occur when the radiation pressure generated by accretion …

SRGeJ045359. 9+ 622444: A 55 Minute Period Eclipsing AM Canum Venaticorum Star Discovered from a Joint SRG/eROSITA+ ZTF Search

AC Rodriguez, I Galiullin, M Gilfanov… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) systems are ultracompact binaries where a
white dwarf accretes from a helium-rich degenerate or semidegenerate donor. Some AM …

An 8.8 minute orbital period eclipsing detached double white dwarf binary

KB Burdge, MW Coughlin, J Fuller… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of ZTF J2243+ 5242, an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an
orbital period of just 8.8 minutes, the second known eclipsing binary with an orbital period of …

realfast: real-time, commensal fast transient surveys with the Very Large Array

CJ Law, GC Bower, S Burke-Spolaor… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Radio interferometers have the ability to precisely localize and better characterize the
properties of sources. This ability is having a powerful impact on the study of fast radio …

A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple

KB Burdge, TR Marsh, J Fuller, EC Bellm, I Caiazzo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Over a dozen millisecond pulsars are ablating low-mass companions in close binary
systems. In the original 'black widow', the eight-hour orbital period eclipsing pulsar PSR …