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We investigate the luminosity suppression and its effect on the mass-radius relation as well as cooling evolution of highly magnetised white dwarfs. Based on the effect of magnetic field relative to gravitational energy, we suitably modify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Mukul Bhattacharya , Alexander J. Hackett , Abhay Gupta , Christopher A. Tout , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We present our study of stability of differentially rotating, axisymmetric neutron stars described by a polytropic equation of state with $\Gamma = 2$. We focus on quasi-toroidal solutions with a degree of differential rotation $\widetilde…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Paweł Szewczyk , Dorota Gondek-Rosińska , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

Hot white dwarfs with carbon-dominated atmospheres (hot DQs) are a cryptic class of white dwarfs. In addition to their deficiency of hydrogen and helium, most of these stars are highly magnetic, and a large fraction vary in luminosity. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Kurtis A. Williams , M. H. Montgomery , D. E. Winget , Ross E. Falcon , Michael Bierwagon

We investigate radial oscillations of pure neutron stars and hybrid stars, employing equations of state of nuclear matter from Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory, and of quark matter from the Dyson-Schwinger quark model, performing a Gibbs…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Ting-Ting Sun , Zi-Yue Zheng , Huan Chen , G. Fiorella Burgio , Hans-Josef Schulze

The flame born in the deep interior of a white dwarf that becomes a Type Ia supernova is subject to several instabilities. We briefly review these instabilities and the corresponding flame acceleration. We discuss the conditions necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. C. Niemeyer , S. E. Woosley

In this article we have extended the original work of Chandrasekhar on the structure of white dwarfs to the two-dimensional case. Although such two-dimensional stellar objects are hypothetical in nature, we strongly believe that the work…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 Sanchari De , Somenath Chakrabarty

We investigate the impact of gravity portal to properties of white dwarfs, such as equation-of-state as well as cooling time. We find that the interaction between dark matter spin-zero bosons and electrons in the mean field approximation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-05 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ilídio Lopes

We discuss some of our current knowledge of the mass distribution of DA and non-DA stars using various methods for measuring white dwarf masses including spectroscopic, trigonometric parallax, and gravitational redshift measurements, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bergeron , A. Gianninas , S. Boudreault

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

The prediction of the equation of state of hot, dense nuclear matter is one of the most complicated and interesting problems in nuclear astrophysics. At the same time, knowledge of it is the basic ingredient for some of the most interesting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 P. S. Koliogiannis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

One of the challenges to increasing the mass of a white dwarf through accretion is the tendency for the accumulating hydrogen to ignite unstably and potentially trigger mass loss. It has been known for many years that there is a narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ken J. Shen , Lars Bildsten

Thermal-diffusional pulsation behaviors in planar as well as outwardly and inwardly propagating white dwarf carbon flames are systematically studied. In the 1D numerical simulation, the asymptotic degenerate equation of state and simplified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Guangzheng Xing , Yibo Zhao , Mikhail Modestov , Cheng Zhou , Yang Gao , Chung K. Law

After giving an overview of the history and idea of neutron stars, I shall introduce, in part one of my lectures, a representative collection of models for the equation of state of superdense neutron star matter, which account for various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fridolin Weber , Norman K. Glendenning

We have computed the thermodynamic properties of a rotating black holes in the presence of cold dark matter. The dependence of temperaure, Gibbs free energy, specific heat on the horizon radius have been studied for various values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Swapan Kumar Majhi

We study the equilibrium structures of white dwarfs with dark matter cores formed by non-self-annihilating dark matter DM particles with mass ranging from 1 GeV to 100 GeV, which are assumed to form an ideal degenerate Fermi gas inside the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 S. -C. Leung , M. -C. Chu , L. -M. Lin , K. -W. Wong

We analyze the effects of modified gravity on specific heats of electrons and ions, Debye temperature, crystallization process, and cooling mechanism in white dwarfs. We derive the Lane-Emden-Chandrasekhar equation and relate it to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Surajit Kalita , Lupamudra Sarmah , Aneta Wojnar

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

The stability properties of rotating relativistic stars against prompt gravitational collapse to a black hole are rather well understood for uniformly rotating models. This is not the case for differentially rotating neutron stars, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-12 Lukas R. Weih , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

The evolution of the remnant of the merger of two white dwarfs is still an open problem. Furthermore, few studies have addressed the case in which the remnant is a magnetic white dwarf with a mass larger than the Chandrasekhar limiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 L. Becerra , J. A. Rueda , P. Loren-Aguilar , E. Garcia-Berro

Several dozen binary ultracool and brown dwarf systems have been identified to date. These systems represent valuable probes of star and planet formation at the lowest mass scales. To date, the study of these ultracool binaries has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Samuel Whitebook , Jim Fuller , Kevin Burdge , Thomas R. Marsh , Dimitri Mawet , Thomas Prince