X-Ray Signatures of Axion Conversion in Magnetic White Dwarf Stars

Christopher Dessert1, Andrew J Long1, Benjamin R Safdi1

  • 1Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|September 7, 2019
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