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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

We present a detailed spectroscopic and photometric analysis of 219 DA and DB white dwarfs for which trigonometric parallax measurements are available. Our aim is to compare the physical parameters derived from the spectroscopic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Antoine Bédard , Pierre Bergeron , Gilles Fontaine

Observational tests of the white dwarf mass-radius relationship have always been limited by the uncertainty in the available distance measurements. Most studies have focused on Balmer line spectroscopy because these spectra can be obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-05 S. R. G. Joyce , M. A. Barstow , S. L. Casewell , M. R. Burleigh , J. B. Holberg , H. E. Bond

By introducing a simplified transport model of outer layers of white dwarfs we derive an analytical semi-empirical relation which constrains effective temperature-mass-radius for white dwarfs. This relation is used to classify recent data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-10 Elvis do A. Soares

We investigate whether nearby white dwarfs (WDs) can constrain dark matter (DM) interactions with ordinary matter. As experimental sensitivity improves, driven by the Gaia mission, the sample volume of nearby WDs has been increasing over…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Sandra Robles , Stephan A. Meighen-Berger , Francesca Calore

In this paper the effect of the magnetic field on the form of the equation of state and helium white dwarfs structure are discussed. The influence of the temperature and magnetic field on white dwarfs parameters have been investigated. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Manka , M. Zastawny-Kubica , A. Brzezina , I. Bednarek

The equilibrium configuration and the radial stability of white dwarfs composed of charged perfect fluid are investigated. These cases are analyzed through the results obtained from the solution of the hydrostatic equilibrium equation. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-21 G. A. Carvalho , José D. V. Arbañil , R. M. Marinho , M. Malheiro

Helium white dwarfs (He WDs) are end products of low-mass red giant donors in close binary systems via stable mass transfer or common envelope evolution. At the end of stable mass transfer, there is a well-known relation between the He WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Jian Mou , Hai-Liang Chen , Dengkai Jiang , Hongwei Ge , Lifu Zhang , Rizhong Zheng , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

The mass-radius relations for white dwarf stars are investigated by solving the Newtonian as well as Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations for hydrostatic equilibrium assuming the electron gas to be non-interacting. We find that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Arun Mathew , Malay K. Nandy

The Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) sample of white dwarf parallaxes is presented, including 6 directly observed degenerates and 46 white dwarfs in wide binaries. This data set is combined with spectroscopic atmospheric parameters to study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 P. -E. Tremblay , N. Gentile-Fusillo , R. Raddi , S. Jordan , C. Besson , B. T. Gaensicke , S. G. Parsons , D. Koester , T. Marsh , R. Bohlin , J. Kalirai

The properties of uniformly rotating white dwarfs are analyzed within the framework of general relativity. Hartle's formalism is applied to construct self-consistently the internal and external solutions to the Einstein equations. The mass,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 Kuantay Boshkayev , Jorge Rueda , Remo Ruffini

White dwarf masses can be determined in several ways. Here we compare masses obtained from Balmer line spectroscopy with those derived from trigonometric parallax measurements for an ensemble of cool hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarfs.

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

We present a study of the dependence of the mass-radius relation for DA white dwarf stars on the hydrogen envelope mass and the impact on the value of log g, and thus the determination of the stellar mass. We employ a set of full…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 Alejandra D. Romero , S. O. Kepler , S. R. G. Joyce , G. R. Lauffer , A. H. Córsico

We explore the internal structures of the white dwarfs in two different modified theories of gravity: (i) scalar-tensor-vector gravity and (ii) beyond Horndeski theories of $G_3$ type. The modification of the gravitational force inside the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Khursid Alam , Tousif Islam

In this paper a theoretical model of a magnetic white dwarf is studied. All numerical calculations are performed under the assumption of a spherically symmetric star. The obtained equation of state is stiffer for the increasing value of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Bednarek , A. Brzezina , R. Manka , M. Zastawny-Kubica

We investigate the hydrostatic equilibrium of white dwarfs within the framework of Rastall-Rainbow gravity, aiming to explore the effects of this modified gravitational theory on their properties. By employing the Chandrasekhar equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Jie Li , Bo Yang , Wenbin Lin

Generalized uncertainty relation that carries the imprint of quantum gravity introduces a minimal length scale into the description of space-time. It effectively changes the invariant measure of the phase space through a factor $(1+\beta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-24 Arun Mathew , Malay K. Nandy

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

We investigate the radial density distribution of the dynamical dark energy inside the white dwarfs (WDs) and its possible impact on their intrinsic structure. The minimally-coupled dark energy with barotropic equation of state which has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sviatoslav Smerechynskyi , Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj

We report on an undergraduate student project initiated in the summer semester of 2004 with the aim to establish equations of state for white dwarfs and neutron stars for computing mass-radius relations as well as corresponding maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Irina Sagert , Matthias Hempel , Carsten Greiner , Juergen Schaffner-Bielich