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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

The Feynman-Metropolis-Teller treatment for compressed atoms is here reconsidered in the framework of the relativistic generalised Fermi-Thomas model, obtained by Ruffini et al. Physical properties of a zero temperature plasma is thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Bertone , R. Ruffini

Recently, it has been shown by S.~M. de Carvalho et al. (2014) that the deviations between the degenerate case and observations were already evident for 0.7-0.8 M$_{\odot}$ white dwarfs. Such deviations were related to the neglected effects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Kuantay Boshkayev , Jorge A. Rueda , Bakytzhan Zhami , Zhanerke Kalymova , Galymdin Balgymbekov

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

The discovery of the existence of an upper bound on the mass of a white dwarf star is considered as one of the finest of twentieth century astrophysics. On approaching this limiting mass of $1.4M_\odot$, known as the Chandrasekhar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Sayan K Pal , Partha Nandi

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

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

Observations of several peculiar, under- and over-luminous type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) argue for exploding masses widely different from the Chandrasekhar-limit. We explore the modification to Einstein's gravity in white dwarfs for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We determine the mass-radius relation of relativistic white dwarf stars (a self-gravitating degenerate Fermi gas at T=0) in a D-dimensional universe and study the influence of the dimension of space on the laws of physics when we combine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. H. Chavanis

Type Ia supernovae, sparked off by exploding white dwarfs of mass close to Chandrasekhar limit, play the key role to understand the expansion rate of universe. However, recent observations of several peculiar type Ia supernovae argue for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-19 Upasana Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

A simple cooling model of white dwarf stars is re-analyzed in Palatini $f(R)$ gravity. Modified gravity affects the white dwarf structures and consequently their ages. We find that the resulting super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs need more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 Surajit Kalita , Lupamudra Sarmah , Aneta Wojnar

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

We revisit in this work the problem of the maximum masses of magnetized White Dwarfs (WD). The impact of a strong magnetic field onto the structure equations is addressed. The pressures become anisotropic due to the presence of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 D. Manreza Paret , A. Perez Martinez , J. E. Horvath

In this work we compute models for relativistic white dwarfs in the presence of strong magnetic fields. These models possibly contribute to super-luminous SNIa. With an assumed axi-symmetric and poloidal magnetic field, we study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Bruno Franzon , Stefan Schramm

In a brief article published in 1931 and expanded in 1935, the Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared an important astronomical discovery where he introduced what is now known as Chandrasekhar limit. This limit establishes…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Jorge Pinochet

In this work, cold and hot, static and rotating white dwarf stars are investigated within the framework of classical physics, employing the Chandrasekhar equation of state. The main parameters of white dwarfs such as the central density,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-20 Kuantay Boshkayev

The equilibrium configuration of white dwarfs composed of a charged perfect fluid are investigated in the context of the $f(R,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, for which $R$ and $\mathcal{T}$ stand for the Ricci scalar and the trace of the…

General Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 F. Rocha , G. A. Carvalho , D. Deb , M. Malheiro

The mass-radius relation of white dwarfs is largely determined by the equation of state of degenerate electrons, which causes the stellar radius to decrease as mass increases. Here we observationally measure this relation using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-27 Vedant Chandra , Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Nadia L. Zakamska , Sihao Cheng

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

In their engaging recountals of Chandrasekhar's extraordinary career (Physics Today, vol 63, Issue 12, Dec 2010), neither Dyson nor Wali mention that Chandrasekhar was the third person not the first, to publish a white dwarf mass limit…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Eric G. Blackman