Professor David Kaplan and the Pulsar PSR J2222-0137 and the Cool White Dwarf – Rihanna’s Diamond in the Sky Part 2

“Our final image should show us a companion 100 times fainter than any other white dwarf orbiting a neutron Star and about 10 times fainter ...



“Our
final image should show us a companion 100 times fainter than any other white
dwarf orbiting a neutron Star and about 10 times fainter than any known white
dwarf, but we don’t see a thing. If there’s a white dwarf there, and there almost
certainly is, it must be extremely cold.”



Dr. Bart Dunlap from
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explaining the published paper
in the 

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