A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon
Caiazzo, I., Burdge, K.B., Fuller, J. et al. Nature 595, 39–42 (2021)
The Zwicky Transient Facility is measuring the brightness of millions of stars every night. By now, lightcurves with hundreds of measurements in the g and r optical bands are available for more than a billion objects in our Galaxy. Our ZTF science working group has been using this huge sample to study variable stars, both periodic and irregular. Examples are short period variable white dwarfs, white dwarfs with transiting debris, outbursting X-ray binaries and cataclysmic variable stars, irregular variable young stellar objects, distant RR lyrae stars, and many other types of variables stellar objects.
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Multi-wavelength Observations of AT2019wey: a New Candidate Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary
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Cataclysmic Variables in the Second Year of the Zwicky Transient Facility
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Discovery and characterization of five new eclipsing AM CVn systems
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Date: 08-2021
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Yuhan Yao (Caltech) introduces her recent paper "Multi-wavelength Observations of AT2019wey: a New Candidate Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary", Yuhan Yao et al 2021 ApJ 920 120 in the ZTF science vlog series.
