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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

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

The main goal of this work was to measure the masses and radii of white dwarfs that belong to widely separated, common proper motion binaries with non-degenerate companions. These can be assessed, independently from theoretical mass-radius…

While computing the Fermi degeneracy pressure of electrons in a white dwarf star within the framework of hydrostatic equilibrium, we depart from the extant practice of treating the electrons as a free fermion gas, by including the effect of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-22 Anarya Ray , Pronobesh Maity , Parthasarathi Majumdar

We investigate the properties of anisotropic white dwarf stars within the rainbow gravity adopting for matter content the Chandrasekhar model based on an ideal Fermi gas at zero temperature. We study in detail the effects of the anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Takol Tangphati , Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ayan Banerjee , Anirudh Pradhan

The existence of massive white dwarfs (WDs) containing more than Chandrasekhar's maximum mass has been suggested via the detection of peculiar type Ia Supernovae. It had been crucial to directly detect those 'super' (more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Mayusree Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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

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

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

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

We use the most recent, complete and independent measurements of masses and radii of white dwarfs in binaries to bound the class of non-trivial modified gravity theories, viable after GW170817/GRB170817, using its effect on the mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Ippocratis D. Saltas , Ignacy Sawicki , Ilidio Lopes

An ungravity-inspired model is employed to examine the astrophysical parameters of white dwarf stars (WDs) using polytropic and degenerate gas approaches. Based on the observed properties such as mass, radius, and luminosity of selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Orfeu Bertolami , Hodjat Mariji

The hydrogen envelope is the outermost layer of a DA white dwarf; it makes up the entirety of the stellar photosphere, and yet its typical extent is difficult to model theoretically and remains poorly observationally constrained. As a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Stefan M. Arseneau , J. J. Hermes , Maria E. Camisassa , Roberto Raddi , Evan B. Bauer

White dwarfs typically have masses in a narrow range centered at about 0.6 solar masses (Msun). Only a few ultra-massive white dwarfs (M>1.2 Msun) are known. Those in binary systems are of particular interest because a small amount of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-05 S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo , P. Esposito , N. La Palombara , G. L. Israel , L. Stella

The properties of uniformly rotating white dwarfs (RWDs) are analyzed within the framework of general relativity. Hartle's formalism is applied to construct the internal and external solutions to the Einstein equations. The WD matter is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kuantay Boshkayev , Jorge A. Rueda , Remo Ruffini , Ivan Siutsou

Recently super-Chandrasekhar mass limit has been derived theoretically in presence of strong magnetic field to complement experimental observations. In the framework of Newtonian physics, we have studied the equilibrium configurations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-11 Sujan Kumar Roy , Somnath Mukhopadhyay , D. N. Basu

We consider a relativistic, degenerate electron gas at zero-temperature under the influence of a strong, uniform, static magnetic field, neglecting any form of interactions. Since the density of states for the electrons changes due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-08 Upasana Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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

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

Mass estimates of white dwarfs via electromagnetic methods, often differ from those obtained through gravitational redshift measurements, in some cases with discrepancies ranging in $5-15\%$ across independent datasets. Although many of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font , Juan Calderón Bustillo