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WIMPs can be captured in compact stars such as white dwarves (WDs) leading to an increase in the star luminosity through their annihilation process. We show that when the WIMP interacts with the nuclear targets within the WD through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-20 Anirban Biswas , Arpan Kar , Hyomin Kim , Stefano Scopel , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

Seven ultra low-mass and small-radius white dwarfs (LSPM J0815+1633, LP 240-30, BD+20 5125B, LP 462-12, WD J1257+5428, 2MASS J13453297+4200437, and SDSS J085557.46+053524.5) have been recently identified with masses ranging from $\sim$0.02…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Cheng-Jun Xia , Yong-Feng Huang , Hong-Bo Li , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu

The equilibrium configurations of uniformly rotating white dwarfs at finite temperatures are investigated, exploiting the Chandrasekhar equation of state for different isothermal cores. The Hartle-Thorne formalism is applied to construct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Kuantay Boshkayev , Hernando Quevedo

A recent study by Yoon & Langer (2004a) indicated that the inner cores of rapidly accreting (Mdot > 10^{-7} M_sun/yr) CO white dwarfs may rotate differentially, with a shear rate near the threshold value for the onset of the dynamical shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sung-Chul Yoon , Norbert Langer

Recently, several white dwarfs have been proposed with masses significantly above the Chandrasekhar limit, known as Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs, to account for the overluminous Type Ia supernovae. In the present work, Equation of State…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 Somnath Mukhopadhyay , Debasis Atta , D. N. Basu

Recent observations of several peculiar over- and under-luminous type Ia supernovae infer indirect evidence for the violation of the Chandrasekhar mass-limit by suggesting the existence of super- and sub-Chandrasekhar limiting mass white…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Lupamudra Sarmah , Surajit Kalita , Aneta Wojnar

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Laura Becerra , Kuantay Boshkayev , Jorge. A. Rueda , Remo Ruffini

Taking advantage of the now available Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, we carry out an archival {\it Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) far ultraviolet spectroscopic analysis of 10 cataclysmic variable systems, including 5 carefully selected eclipsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Patrick Godon , Edward M. Sion

We determine the mass-radius relation of relativistic white dwarf stars (a self-gravitating degenerate Fermi gas at T=0) in a D-dimensional universe and study the influence of the dimension of space on the laws of physics when we combine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. H. Chavanis

In recent years, white dwarf stars are receiving increasing attension. The recent studies on the relation of M-R for the WDs are those of Wood (1990), Vennes et al. (1995) and Althaus and Benvenuto (1997, 1998). Vennes et al. (1995)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Civelek , N. Kiziloglu

Over the last few decades, there has been considerable interest in the violation of the sacred "Chandrasekhar" mass limit of white dwarfs (WDs). Peculiar over-luminous type Ia supernovae (such as SNLS-03D3bb) lend observational support to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Zenia Zuraiq , Achal Kumar , Alexander J. Hackett , Surendra Bhattarai , Christopher A. Tout , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Restoration of broken circular symmetry is used to explore the characteristics of the ground states and the excitation spectra of rotating Wigner molecules (RWM's) formed in two-dimensional parabolic N-electron quantum dots. In high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

We consider stationary, axially symmetric toroids rotating around spinless black holes, assuming the general-relativistic Keplerian rotation law, in the first post-Newtonian approximation. Numerical investigation shows that the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-04 Janusz Karkowski , Patryk Mach , Edward Malec , Michal Pirog , Naqing Xie

Low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs) are believed to be exclusive products of binary evolution, as the Universe is not yet old enough to produce them from single stars. Because of the strong tidal forces operating during the binary interaction…

In this work, we study the properties of magnetized white dwarfs taking into account possible instabilities due to electron capture and pycnonuclear fusion reactions in the cores of such objects. The structure of white dwarfs is obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Edson Otoniel , Bruno Franzon , Manuel Malheiro , Stefan Schramm , Fridolin Weber

White dwarfs, one of the compact objects in the universe, play a crucial role in astrophysical research and provide a platform for exploring nuclear physics. In this work, we extend the relativistic mean field approach by using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Ling-Jun Guo , Yao Ma , Yong-Liang Ma , Ruo-Xi Wu , Yue-Liang Wu

An ungravity-inspired model is employed to examine the astrophysical parameters of white dwarf stars (WDs) using polytropic and degenerate gas approaches. Based on the observed properties such as mass, radius, and luminosity of selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Orfeu Bertolami , Hodjat Mariji

A theoretical study of some electrodynamic features of a region close to a {\it slowly-rotating} magnetized relativistic star is performed. To be a little more specific, based on the solution-generating method given by Wald, the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongsu Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Chul H. Lee , Hyun Kyu Lee

White dwarfs are one of the densest form of matter following neutron star and black holes. A typical white dwarf is as massive as our sun has radius comparable to the earth. This paper reviewed the Fermi gas model Equation of State of white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tousif Raza

We study the strongly magnetized white dwarf configurations in a self-consistent manner as a progenitor of the over-luminous type-Ia supernovae. We compute static equilibria of white dwarf stars containing a strong magnetic field and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 Prasanta Bera , Dipankar Bhattacharya