pulsars rotate once every several minutes, far slower than neutron-star pulsars.

By 2025, three pulsar-like white dwarfs have been identified.

* In 1998, Nazar Ikhsanov showed that a white dwarf in the binary system AE Aquarii acts like a radio pulsar. The confirmation of the pulsar-like properties of the white dwarf in AE Aquarii was provided in 2008 by a discovery of X-ray pulsations, which showed that this white dwarf acts not only as a radio pulsar, but also as an X-ray pulsar.

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