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We study self-gravitating stars in the bootstrapped Newtonian picture for polytropic equations of state. We consider stars that span a wide range of compactness values. Both matter density and pressure are sources of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Roberto Casadio , Octavian Micu

Interior structures of stellar objects might have small pressure anisotropy due to several reasons, including rotation and the presence of magnetic fields. Here, retaining the approximation of spherical symmetry, we study the possible role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shaswata Chowdhury , Tapobrata Sarkar

The condition for pressure isotropy, for spherically symmetric gravitational fields with charged and uncharged matter, is reduced to a recurrence equation with variable, rational coefficients. This difference equation is solved in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Maharaj , S. Thirukkanesh

We consider the linear equation of state for matter distributions that may be applied to strange stars with quark matter. In our general approach the compact relativistic body allows for anisotropic pressures in the presence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 S. D. Maharaj , S. Thirukkanesh

The Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs has been confirmed by many astrophysical observations. However, how to obtain it theoretically in models which rely on other-than-Heisenberg's uncertainty principles, which are predicted by some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-28 Daniele Gregoris , Yen Chin Ong

The cosmic neutrino background anisotropy is calculated for massive neutrino states by solving the full Boltzmann equation. The effect of weak gravitational lensing, including the Limber approximation, is also derived for massive particles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Steen Hannestad , Jacob Brandbyge

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

We model a charged anisotropic relativistic star with a quadratic equation of state. Physical features of an exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell system are studied by incorporating the effect of the nonlinear term from the equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Mafa Takisa , S. D. Maharaj , Subharthi Ray

In this paper, we studied the behaviour of compact relativistic objects with anisotropic matter distribution considering quadratic equation of state of Feroze and Siddiqui (2011). We specify the gravitational potential Z(x) in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-04 Manuel Malaver

Pressure isotropy, i.e., equality between radial and tangential pressure, is often assumed when studying neutron stars. However, mechanisms such as pion/kaon condensation, magnetic fields, and dark matter clustering can lead to pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Peter T. H. Pang , Stephanie M. Brown , Thibeau Wouters , Chris Van Den Broeck

Two distinct non-singular interior models that describe anisotropic spherical configurations are presented in this work. We develop the Einstein field equations and the associated mass function in accordance with a static spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 M. Sharif , Tayyab Naseer , Hira Shadab

This paper explored the physical acceptability conditions for anisotropic matter configurations in General Relativity. The study considered a generalized polytropic equation of state $P=\kappa {\rho}^{\gamma}+\alpha \rho -\beta$ for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Daniel Suárez-Urango , J. Ospino , Héctor Hernández , Luis A. Núñez

Spherical systems with polytropic equations of state are of great interest in astrophysics. They are widely used to describe neutron stars, red giants, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, main sequence stars, galactic halos, and globular clusters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-24 P. H. Nguyen , J. F. Pedraza

Some models (such as the Skyrme model, a low-energy effective field theory for QCD) suggest that the high-density matter prevailing in neutron star interiors may be significantly anisotropic. Anisotropy is known to affect the bulk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Hector O. Silva , Caio F. B. Macedo , Emanuele Berti , Luís C. B. Crispino

In the context of $f\left(R, T\right) = R + 2 \beta T$ gravity, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, the equilibrium structure of charged anisotropic white dwarfs (WDs) is studied. The stellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Zhe Feng

We examine the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs in $f(R)$ gravity, with a simple polytropic equation of state describing stellar matter. We use the most popular $f(R)$ gravity model, namely the $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$ gravity, and calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Artyom V. Astashenok , Sergey D. Odintsov , Vasilis K. Oikonomou

The aim of this paper is to discuss the theory of Newtonian and relativistic polytropes with generalized polytropic equation of state. For this purpose, we formulated the general framework to discuss the physical properties of polytrops…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 M. Azam , S. A. Mardan , I. Noreen , M. A. Rehman

Using a phenomenological form of the equation of state of neutron matter near the saturation density which has been previously demonstrated to be a good characterization of quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we show that currently available…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-27 A. W. Steiner , S. Gandolfi

A simple classification is given of the anisotropic relativistic star models, resembling the one of charged isotropic solutions. On the ground of this database, and taking into account the conditions for physically realistic star models, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 B. V. Ivanov

Static solutions of white dwarfs with spherical symmetry and local anisotropy are studied in the post-Newtonian approximation. It is argued that the condition for equilibrium must be that the total energy is a minimum for given baryon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 E. S. Corchero