{"id":36,"date":"2020-02-01T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/?p=36"},"modified":"2020-11-28T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T21:29:02","slug":"a-new-class-of-supernova-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/2020\/02\/01\/a-new-class-of-supernova-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"A class of supernova survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group members and collaborators have discovered a new class of zombie stars that are likely the shattered remnants of thermonuclear supernova that did not fully disrupt the white dwarf! Led by Roberto Raddi at Dr.Karl-Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2019MNRAS.489.1489R\/abstract\">now published<\/a> at least three more members of this new class of star named after the prototype <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LP_40-365\">LP 40-365<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research is well summarized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/zombie-stars-shine-on-after-mystery-detonations\/\">Shannon Hall writing in <em>Scientific American<\/em><\/a>: This \u201cnewly discovered class of odd stars appears to have persevered through supernova explosions \u2014 providing a rare glimpse into these astrophysical catastrophes.\u201d Another summary is detailed in a Twitter thread: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jotajotahermes\/status\/1096054102327525376\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/jotajotahermes\/status\/1096054102327525376<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group members and collaborators have discovered a new class of zombie stars that are likely the shattered remnants of thermonuclear supernova that did not fully disrupt the white dwarf! Led by Roberto Raddi at Dr.Karl-Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, we have now published at least three more members of this new class of star named after the prototype [&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\/36"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}