We proposed to carry out high precision very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of AR Sco, a pulsing white dwarf (WD) -M dwarf (MD) binary, to provide a direct distance measurement with the e-EVN (European VLBI Network) at 5 GHz. By the proposed parallax measurement on AR Sco, not only the precise distance will be determined, but also some physical parameters, such as the luminosity, the mass and the magnetic field will be significantly tightened accordingly, even the gravitational wave amplitude from this unique binary system can be tightly constrained. In addition, the EVN observations will allow us to answer that whether there is an extended emission structure associated with AR Sco, which will help us to explain the stable continuum radio emission observed during the pulse-off state.
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