A mysterious, repeating radio signal in the Milky Way that baffled astronomers could be an object so rare, only one other has ever been tentatively identified.
, with a star called AR Scorpii. Locked in a binary system with a red dwarf star, AR Scorpii flashes on a timescale of minutes.
It matched the profile of no known astronomical object, but the research team that discovered it thought it might be a hypothetical object known as an ultra-long-period magnetar. That's a neutron star with an extraordinarily powerful magnetic field, but the explanation still didn't quite fit.astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker
A pulsar was considered as a possibility, but there are two major problems: the first is that long rotation period, and the second is that the pulses were too bright for a neutron star pulsar. Both these problems, Katz lays out, are resolved if the object is a white dwarf.
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