Localized thermonuclear bursts from accreting magnetic white dwarfs

Accepted/In Press date: 1 February 2022

e-pub ahead of print date: 20 April 2022

Published date: 21 April 2022

Additional Information: Funding Information: P.J.G. is supported by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) SARChI grant no. 111692. D.A.H.B. acknowledges research support from the South African National Research Foundation. D.d.M. acknowledges financial support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) under agreements ASI-INAF I/037/12/0 and ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.0, and from INAF ‘Sostegno alla ricerca scientifica main streams dell’INAF’, Presidential Decree 43/2018, from INAF ‘SKA/CTA projects’, Presidential Decree 70/2016, and from PHAROS COST Action N.16214. C.D. and K.I. acknowledge funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) consolidator grant no. ST/T000244/1. J.-P.L. was supported in part by a grant from the French Space Agency CNES. P.S. acknowledges support from National Science Foundation (NSF) grant no. AST-1514737. F.X.T. is supported by the NSF under grant no. ACI-1663684 for the MESA Project, and by the NSF under grant no. PHY-1430152 for the Physics Frontier Center Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE). This paper includes data collected by the TESS mission. Funding for the TESS mission is provided by the NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract no. NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-Hubble Space Telescope data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science by grant no. NNX09AF08G and by other grants and contracts. This paper uses data from the ASAS-SN project run by the Ohio State University. We thank the ASAS-SN team for making their data publicly available. This work has also made use of data from the European Space Agency mission Gaia ( https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia ), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium ). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. The study is based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) under ESO-DDT programme 107.2309.001, for which we acknowledge support from the ESO Director-General. Funding Information: P.J.G. is supported by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) SARChI grant no. 111692. D.A.H.B. acknowledges research support from the South African National Research Foundation. D.d.M. acknowledges financial support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) under agreements ASI-INAF I/037/12/0 and ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.0, and from INAF ‘Sostegno alla ricerca scientifica main streams dell’INAF’, Presidential Decree 43/2018, from INAF ‘SKA/CTA projects’, Presidential Decree 70/2016, and from PHAROS COST Action N.16214. C.D. and K.I. acknowledge funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) consolidator grant no. ST/T000244/1. J.-P.L. was supported in part by a grant from the French Space Agency CNES. P.S. acknowledges support from National Science Foundation (NSF) grant no. AST-1514737. F.X.T. is supported by the NSF under grant no. ACI-1663684 for the MESA Project, and by the NSF under grant no. PHY-1430152 for the Physics Frontier Center Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE). This paper includes data collected by the TESS mission. Funding for the TESS mission is provided by the NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract no. NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-Hubble Space Telescope data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science by grant no. NNX09AF08G and by other grants and contracts. This paper uses data from the ASAS-SN project run by the Ohio State University. We thank the ASAS-SN team for making their data publicly available. This work has also made use of data from the European Space Agency mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. The study is based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) under ESO-DDT programme 107.2309.001, for which we acknowledge support from the ESO Director-General. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

Keywords: astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR

Local EPrints ID: 457681

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457681

DOI: doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04495-6

ISSN: 0028-0836

PURE UUID: 2711eeb0-abab-4534-9e9b-2e2a3d496871

ORCID for Y. Cavecchi: orcid.org/0000-0002-6447-3603

Date deposited: 14 Jun 2022 17:00

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