{"id":208,"date":"2020-11-28T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T21:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/?p=208"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:27:53","slug":"a-puzzling-fast-spinning-white-dwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/2020\/11\/28\/a-puzzling-fast-spinning-white-dwarf\/","title":{"rendered":"A puzzling, fast-spinning white dwarf with emission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/buwd\/files\/2020\/11\/magwd-636x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/files\/2020\/11\/magwd-636x450.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/files\/2020\/11\/magwd-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/files\/2020\/11\/magwd-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/files\/2020\/11\/magwd.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist&#8217;s impression of a strongly magnetic white dwarf (credit ESO\/L. Cal\u00e7ada).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In May 2020, collaborators led by PhD student Josh Reding at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2020ApJ...894...19R\/abstract\">published in The Astrophysical Journal<\/a> the fastest-rotating, isolated white dwarf. The star spins on its axis every 317 seconds, and is only the second white dwarf to show Balmer emission lines &#8212; the origin of this emission is still puzzling, and could be connected to the induction of a current from a close-in rocky planet. A thread detailing this highly magnetic stellar remnant is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jotajotahermes\/status\/1242792338751205376\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/jotajotahermes\/status\/1242792338751205376<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2020, collaborators led by PhD student Josh Reding at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published in The Astrophysical Journal the fastest-rotating, isolated white dwarf. The star spins on its axis every 317 seconds, and is only the second white dwarf to show Balmer emission lines &#8212; the origin of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}