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Time evolution of rotating and magnetized white dwarf stars

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2019-05-29 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We investigate the evolution of isolated, zero and finite temperature, massive, uniformly rotating and highly magnetized white dwarf stars under angular momentum loss driven by magnetic dipole braking. We consider the structure and thermal evolution of white dwarf isothermal cores taking also into account the nuclear burning and neutrino emission processes. We estimate the white dwarf lifetime before it reaches the condition either for a type Ia supernova explosion or for the gravitational collapse to a neutron star. We study white dwarfs with surface magnetic fields from 10610^6 to 10910^{9}~G and masses from 1.391.39 to 1.46 M1.46~M_\odot and analyze the behavior of the white dwarf parameters such as moment of inertia, angular momentum, central temperature and magnetic field intensity as a function of lifetime. The magnetic field is involved only to slow down white dwarfs, without affecting their equation of state and structure. In addition, we compute the characteristic time of nuclear reactions and dynamical time scale. The astrophysical consequences of the results are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1812.10543,
  title  = {Time evolution of rotating and magnetized white dwarf stars},
  author = {Laura Becerra and Kuantay Boshkayev and Jorge. A. Rueda and Remo Ruffini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10543},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This version of the paper has been accepted for publication in MNRAS