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[Interview] Weirdest White Dwarf Ever Found. What's Going On?

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The Magnetic Field of the White Dwarf

The only convection or the only motion is this convective layer right near the surface. We think it formed from the merger of two white dwarfs of lower mass. And that event is cataclysmic, but we haven't seen it happen.

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