The riddle of rising extreme heat days in Europe: Remote “triggers” and local “amplifiers”
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The riddle of rising extreme heat days in Europe: Remote “triggers” and local “amplifiers”
MIT astronomers used the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to identify key features in the innermost region of a white dwarf system called an intermediate polar. This extremely energetic environment has been inaccessible to most telescopes until now.