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On the Maximum Mass of General Relativistic Uniformly Rotating White Dwarfs

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2012-10-29 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The properties of uniformly rotating white dwarfs are analyzed within the framework of general relativity. Hartle's formalism is applied to construct self-consistently the internal and external solutions to the Einstein equations. The mass, the radius, the moment of inertia and quadrupole moment of rotating white dwarfs have been calculated as a function of both the central density and rotation period of the star. The maximum mass of rotating white dwarfs for stable configurations has been obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7088,
  title  = {On the Maximum Mass of General Relativistic Uniformly Rotating White Dwarfs},
  author = {Kuantay Boshkayev and Jorge Rueda and Remo Ruffini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7088},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, published in the proceedings of the conference; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011IJMPE..20..136B