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D. L. Kaplan

1 articles · 28 co-authors · latest: 2026-06-02

Cosmic Waltz: How a White Dwarf Became a Radio Beacon

The system ASKAP J1745−5051 is a close binary where a magnetic white dwarf strips material from a red dwarf every 1.37 hours. The resulting radio bursts are so powerful that their brightness temperature exceeds 10^12 K, requiring a coherent emission mechanism — a cosmic analog of a laser. Spectrosco
arXiv:2606.04232v1 · 2026-06-02