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New research challenges the traditional view of white dwarfs as mere remnants of dead stars by explaining the prolonged luminosity of delayed white dwarfs. Credit: SciTechDaily.com
Your astronomy textbook might describe white dwarfs as the cool and comparatively uninteresting remnants of dead stars. This perspective is challenged by the previously unexplained existence of delayed white dwarfs, which defy expectations by shining as brightly as some familiar main-sequence stars for billions of years.
“Going forward,” Blouin explains, “it will be important to take this mechanism into account when using white dwarfs as cosmic clocks to measure the ages of stars.”Simon Blouin is a Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics National Fellow working at the University of Victoria with Professor Falk Herwig. Blouin earned his doctorate in physics at l’Université de Montréal in 2019 before completing post-doctoral fellowships at the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory and at UVic.
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