Optical transients from non-explosive double white-dwarf mergers: the case of a central neutron star remnant

M. M. Ridha Fathima, Alexandre M. R. Almeida, Mattia Bulla +3

Discoveries of ultra-massive magnetic white dwarfs (WDs) and peculiar pulsars have been proposed to originate in double white dwarf (DWD) mergers. There are three possible post-mer…