Celestial odd couple: Massive star and white dwarf caught in X-ray flash

Phys.org

Center

Factuality

Ownership

Celestial odd couple: Massive star and white dwarf caught in X-ray flash

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique power of the mission to uncover fleeting X-ray sources in the sky. The work is published on the arXiv preprint server and forthcoming in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The European Space Agency

Science Daily

Center

View article

Reposted by

Science Daily

Factuality

Ownership

Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique power of the mission to uncover fleeting X-ray sources in the sky.

Proceso Digital

Factuality

Ownership

The Einstein Probe satellite, with technology inspired by the eyes of lobsters, has detected an X-ray flash coming from a particular star duo: a large hot star and a compact white dwarf.The entry The Einstein Probe probe detects an X-ray explosion from an unusual star duo was first published in Digital Process.

spacevoyaging.com

Factuality

Ownership

Einstein Probe Detects Rare X-ray Flash from Unusual Stellar Pair

On May 27, 2024, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) onboard Einstein Probe detected an unexpected X-ray emission from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy. The event, designated EP J0052, was further investigated using multiple space telescopes, including NASA’s Swift and NICER observatories, as well as ESA’s XMM-Newton, which conducted follow-up observations 18 days later. “We were chasing fleeting sources, when we came across th…