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White dwarfs (WDs) are frequently observed to have strong magnetic fields up to $10^9$ G and expected to have a possible internal field as high as $\sim 10^{14}$ G. High internal fields can significantly deform a WD's equilibrium structure,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Mayusree Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Tomasz Bulik

About half of white dwarfs (WDs) evolve to the DC state as they cool; the others become DQ or (temporarily?) DZ WDs. The recent magnetic survey of the local 20 pc volume has established a high frequency of magnetic fields among WDs older…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Andrei V. Berdyugin , Vilppu Piirola , Stefano Bagnulo , John D. Landstreet , Svetlana V. Berdyugina

Rapidly rotating late M dwarfs are observed in two different branches of magnetic activity, although they operate in the same stellar parameter range. Current empirical evidence indicates that M dwarfs with spectral types ranging from M3 /…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Giuseppina Nigro , Francesco Berrilli , Giuseppe Bono , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli , Valentina Penza , Raffaele Reda

We have succeeded in obtaining magnetized star models that have extremely strong magnetic fields in the interior of the star. In our formulation, arbitrary functions of the magnetic flux function appear in the expression for the current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-03 Kotaro Fujisawa , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

The presence of a strong magnetic field is a feature common to a significant fraction of degenerate stars, yet little is understood about field origin and evolution. New observational constraints from volume-limited surveys point to a more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Stefano Bagnulo , John D. Landstreet

Merger of two white dwarfs (WDs) has been proposed to form an isolated WD having high magnetization and rapid rotation. We study the influence of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wind on spin evolution of the newly-formed merger product. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-28 Yanchang Cheng , Jumpei Takata

Observations indicate that the magnetic fields on neutron stars (NSs) lie in the range of $10^{8}$-$10^{15}$ G. We investigate rotating NSs with chaotic magnetic fields in both general relativity (GR) and Rastall gravity (RG). The equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 M. Lawrence Pattersons , Freddy P. Zen , Hadyan L. Prihadi , Muhammad F. A. R. Sakti , Getbogi Hikmawan

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

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in compact object physics, particularly in white dwarfs (WDs), where high densities can sustain strong magnetic fields. Observations have revealed magnetized WDs (MWDs) with surface fields reaching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

Isolated magnetic white dwarfs have field strengths ranging from kilogauss to gigagauss, and constitute an interesting class of objects. The origin of the magnetic field is still the subject of a hot debate. Whether these fields are fossil,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Enrique García-Berro , Mukremin Kilic , S. O. Kepler

Recent literature has seen an ongoing discussion on the limiting mass of strongly magnetized white dwarfs, since such objects may prove to be a source of over-luminous type-Ia supernovae. In an earlier paper, we have presented the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Prasanta Bera , Dipankar Bhattacharya

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

A dynamo mechanism driven by differential rotation when stars merge has been proposed to explain the presence of strong fields in certain classes of magnetic stars. In the case of the high field magnetic white dwarfs (HFMWDs), the site of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Gordon P. Briggs , Lilia Ferrario , Christopher A. Tout , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe

White dwarf atmospheres are subjected to gravitational potentials around $10^5$ times larger than occur on Earth. They provide a unique environment in which to search for any possible variation in fundamental physics in the presence of…

White dwarfs (WDs), as the remnants of low to intermediate-mass stars, provide a unique opportunity to explore the interplay between quantum mechanical degeneracy pressure and gravitational forces under extreme conditions. In this study, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 Juan M. Z. Pretel , Takol Tangphati , İzzet Sakallı , Ayan Banerjee

A significant fraction of white dwarfs possess a magnetic field with strengths ranging from a few kG up to about 1000 MG. However, the incidence of magnetism varies when the white dwarf population is broken down into different spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Adela Kawka

We present our findings on the spectral analysis of seven magnetic white dwarfs that were presumed to be double degenerates. We obtained time-resolved spectroscopy at the Gemini Observatory to look for evidence of binarity or fast rotation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Adam Moss , Mukremin Kilic , P. Bergeron , Megan Firgard , Warren Brown

Weak magnetic field has been searched for on only a small number of white dwarfs. Current estimates for white dwarfs with fields in excess of 1MG are about 10%; according to previous studies this number increases up to about 25% in the kG…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Jordan , R. Aznar Cuadrado , R. Napiwotzki , H. M. Schmid , S. K. Solanki

Under the assumption of a specific nonminimal coupling of torsion to Under the assumption of a specific nonminimal coupling of torsion to electromagnetism, spacetime is birefringent in the presence of a gravitational field leading to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oliver Preuss , Stefan Jordan , Mark P. Haugan , Sami K. Solanki

We develop a detailed and self-consistent numerical model for extremely-magnetised white dwarfs, which have been proposed as progenitors of overluminous Type Ia supernovae. This model can describe fully-consistent equilibria of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-18 D. Chatterjee , A. F. Fantina , N. Chamel , J. Novak , M. Oertel