A Pair of Stellar Corpses Surrenders Secrets

Mukremin Kilic of the University of Oklahoma, led a team that observed a unique, very close pairing of stellar corpses that have very different evolutionary histories: a white dwarf and a pulsar. The Gemini data that Kilic et al. acquired is the basis for a recently accepted paper (pending publication) in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

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