Edge Flares 2 (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edge Flares 2

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Astronomers developed this scenario to explain the evolution of rapid X-ray oscillations detected by ESA’s (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton satellite. ESA’s LISA mission, due to launch in the next decade, should be able to confirm the presence of an orbiting white dwarf by detecting the gravitational waves it produced.   

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Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University

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