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most citedMagnetic White Dwarfs

359 citations · 2.6k across the 51 of their papers we have counts for

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53 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Circumstellar interaction in the extreme white dwarf merger remnant ZTF\,J1901+1458: A new class of white dwarf merger remnants with X-ray emission

Aayush Desai, Ilaria Caiazzo, Stephane Vennes +31

Double degenerate white dwarf (WD) mergers can exhibit extreme magnetic fields exceeding G and rapid rotation, but their spectral-energy distributions and high-energy emis…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant

Andrei A. Cristea, Ilaria Caiazzo, Tim Cunningham +31

Many white dwarfs are observed in compact double white dwarf binaries and, through the emission of gravitational waves, a large fraction are destined to merge. The merger remnants…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 17 cited

A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces

Ilaria Caiazzo, Kevin B. Burdge, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay +35

White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are characterised by a mass comparable to that of the Sun compressed into the size of an Ear…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 14 cited

AREPO White Dwarf merger simulations resulting in edge-lit detonation and run-away hypervelocity companion

Uri Pierre Burmester, Lilia Ferrario, Rüdiger Pakmor +3

We present a series of high-resolution simulations generated with the moving-mesh code AREPO to model the merger of a carbon-oxygen primary white dwarf wi…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 20 cited

The non-explosive stellar merging origin of the ultra-massive carbon-rich white dwarfs

Adela Kawka, Lilia Ferrario, Stephane Vennes

We have investigated the origin of a sub-class of carbon-polluted white dwarfs (DQ) originally identified as the ``hot DQ" white dwarfs. These objects are relatively hot (10 000 <…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

Why stars inflate to and deflate from red giant dimensions, II: replies to critics

Alvio Renzini

In a 1992 paper of ours the role of opacity-driven thermal instabilities in shaping the course of stellar evolution was amply illustrated. This included the classical issue of ``{\…