White Dwarf Stars as Polytropic Gas Spheres
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2020-03-24 v2
Abstract
Due to the highly degeneracy of electrons in white dwarf stars, we expect that the relativistic effects play very important role in these stars. In the present article, we study the properties of the condensed matter in white dwarfs using Newtonian and relativistic polytropic fluid sphere. Two polytropic indices (namely n=3 and n=1.5) are proposed to investigate the physical characteristics of the models. We solve the Lane-Emden equations numerically.. The results show that the relativistic effect is small in white dwarf stars.
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@article{arxiv.1406.1482,
title = {White Dwarf Stars as Polytropic Gas Spheres},
author = {M. I. Nouh and A. S. Saad and M. M. Elkhateeb and B. Korany},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1482},
year = {2020}
}
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5 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0004317 by other authors