A massive white-dwarf merger product before final collapse
A massive white-dwarf merger product before final collapse
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Gravitational-wave emission can lead to the coalescence of close pairs of compact objects orbiting each other
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,
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. In the case of neutron stars, such mergers may yield masses above the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit (2 to 2.7 solar masses)
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, leading to the formation of black holes
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. For white dwarfs, the mass of the...
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A massive white-dwarf merger product before final collapse
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2232081595
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2232081595
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/s41586-019-1216-1
