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This work is motivated by the sign problem in a logarithmic parameter of black hole entropy and the existing more massive white dwarfs than the Chandrasekhar mass limit. We examine the quadratic, linear, and linear-quadratic generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Idrus Husin Belfaqih , Harris Maulana , Anto Sulaksono

In recent years, the idea of sub- and super-Chandrasekhar limiting mass white dwarfs (WDs), which are potential candidates to produce under- and over-luminous type Ia supernovae, respectively, has been a key interest in the scientific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-04 Surajit Kalita , Lupamudra Sarmah

It is possible to reliably identify white dwarfs (WDs) without recourse to spectra, instead using photometric and astrometric measurements to distinguish them from Main Sequence stars and quasars. WDs' colours can also be used to infer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-22 Daniel J. Mortlock , Hiranya V. Peiris , Zeljko Ivezic

We present a near-infrared photometric search for unresolved substellar companions and debris disks around white dwarfs in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Large Area Survey. We cross-correlate the SDSS DR4 and McCook & Sion catalogues of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Steele , M. R. Burleigh , P. D. Dobbie , R. F. Jameson , M. A. Barstow , R. P. Satterthwaite

White dwarfs (WDs) can be used as laboratories to test strong gravity and high-density regimes, once their equation of state is not so uncertain as the one of neutron stars. This makes them also a useful tool to constrain dark-matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 G. A. Carvalho , J. D. V. Arbañil , J. G. Coelho

Massive, highly magnetized white dwarfs with fields up to $10^9$ G have been observed and theoretically used for the description of a variety of astrophysical phenomena. Ultramagnetized white dwarfs with uniform interior fields up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-29 J. G. Coelho , R. M. Marinho , M. Malheiro , R. Negreiros , D. L. Cáceres , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

Recently, some over-luminous Ia supernovaes are found, suggesting that their progenitors are white dwarfs more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit, which perhaps result from ultra-strong magnetic field inside the white dwarfs. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 Qi-Xiang Zou , Xin-He Meng

Modified gravity theories can introduce modifications to the Poisson equation in the Newtonian limit. As a result, we expect to see interesting features of these modifications inside stellar objects. White dwarf stars are one of the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-06 Srimanta Banerjee , Swapnil Shankar , Tejinder P. Singh

Discovery and characterisation of black holes (BHs), neutron stars (NSs), and white dwarfs (WDs) with detached luminous companions (LCs) in wide orbits are exciting because they are important test beds for dark remnant (DR) formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Anindya Ganguly , Prasanta K. Nayak , Sourav Chatterjee

How confident are we that all of the nearest white dwarfs (WDs) have been identified? In an effort to answer this question, we have begun an initiative to identify and characterize new nearby WDs, particularly in the southern hemisphere. We…

In about last couple of decades, the inference of the violation of the Chandrasekhar mass-limit of white dwarfs from indirect observation is probably a revolutionary discovery in astronomy. Various researchers have already proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Tushar Mondal , Tomasz Bulik

The Gaia mission will provide precise astrometry for an unprecedented number of white dwarfs (WDs), encoding information on stellar evolution, Type Ia supernovae progenitor scenarios, and the star formation and dynamical history of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 Axel Widmark , Daniel J. Mortlock , Hiranya V. Peiris

After the prediction of many sub- and super-Chandrasekhar (at least a dozen for the latter) limiting mass white dwarfs, hence apparently peculiar class of white dwarfs, from the observations of luminosity of type Ia supernovae, researchers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-09 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We investigate the properties of anisotropic white dwarf stars within the rainbow gravity adopting for matter content the Chandrasekhar model based on an ideal Fermi gas at zero temperature. We study in detail the effects of the anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Takol Tangphati , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan

The masses and radii of strongly magnetized anisotropic deformed white dwarf stars are investigated using the stellar structure equations in the parameterized $\gamma$-metric formalism. The Equation of State (EoS) of a completely degenerate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Rajasmita Sahoo , Tambe Pranjal Anant , Somnath Mukhopadhyay

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

We establish the importance of modified Einstein's gravity (MG) in white dwarfs (WDs) for the first time in the literature. We show that MG leads to significantly sub- and super-Chandrasekhar limiting mass WDs, depending on a single model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Upasana Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In this work, we investigate the equilibrium configurations of massive white dwarfs (MWD) in the context of modified gravity, namely $f(R,L_m)$ gravity, where $R$ stands for the Ricci scalar and $L_m$ is the Lagrangian matter density. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 R. V. Lobato , G. A. Carvalho , N. G. Kelkar , M. Nowakowski

This contribution summarizes, as of early 2008, the observational and theoretical understanding of the physics, and emission properties of two Double Degenerate Binaries with the shortest orbital period known to date. In particular, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-16 GianLuca Israel , Simone Dall'Osso

In this article we describe the search for white dwarfs (WDs) in the multi-band photometric data of the Capodimonte deep field survey. The WD candidates were selected through the V-R_C vs B-V color-color diagram. For two bright objects, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Silvotti , S. Catalan , M. Cignoni , J. M. Alcala' , M. Capaccioli , A. Grado , M. Pannella