File:Artist's depiction of the SDSS 1212 interacting binary system (geminiann08006a).jpg

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Artist's depiction of the SDSS 1212 interacting binary system. The gravity of the white dwarf is so strong it distorts the shape of the brown dwarf-like companion and rips material from the surface of its 'donor.

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English: Artist's depiction of the SDSS 1212 interacting binary system. The gravity of the white dwarf is so strong it distorts the shape of the brown dwarf-like companion and rips material from the surface of its 'donor.' The stream of matter is accelerated in the strong gravitational and magnetic fields of the white dwarf, finally striking its surface at 10% of the velocity of light. The impacting stream causes a hot accretion spot on the white dwarf, generating copious cyclotron radiation; responsible in part for the excess near-infrared radiation seen at wavelengths greater than 1.8 microns (see geminiann08006b).
Date 19 February 2008, 14:06:00 (upload date)
Source Artist's depiction of the SDSS 1212 interacting binary system
Author International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/University of Liecester (UK)/Mark A
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