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Ultramassive white dwarfs with masses $M\gtrsim 1.1\,{\rm M}_\odot$ probe extreme physics near the Chandrasekhar limit. Despite the rapid increase in observations, it is still unclear how many harbour carbon-oxygen (CO) versus oxygen-neon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Daniel Blatman , Sivan Ginzburg

With the increasing number of observed magnetic white dwarfs (WDs), the role of magnetic field of the WD in both single and binary evolutions should draw more attentions. In this study, we investigate the WD/main-sequence star binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-07 Iminhaji Ablimit , Keiichi Maeda

A recent study by Yoon & Langer (2004a) indicated that the inner cores of rapidly accreting (Mdot > 10^{-7} M_sun/yr) CO white dwarfs may rotate differentially, with a shear rate near the threshold value for the onset of the dynamical shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sung-Chul Yoon , Norbert Langer

The indirect evidence for at least a dozen massive white dwarfs violating the Chandrasekhar mass-limit is considered to be one of the wonderful discoveries in astronomy for more than a decade. Researchers have already proposed a diverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Surajit Kalita , T. R. Govindarajan , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Recent astrophysics observation reveals the existence of some super luminous type Ia supernovae. One natural explanation of such a peculiar phenomenon is to require the progenitor of such a supernova to be a highly super-Chandrasekhar mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-26 Helei Liu , Xiangdong Zhang , Dehua Wen

The faster light-curve evolution of low-luminosity Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) suggests that they could result from the explosion of white dwarf (WD) progenitors below the Chandrasekhar mass ($M_{\rm Ch}$). Here we present 1D non-LTE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Stéphane Blondin , Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier , Alexei M. Khokhlov

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

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

Context: Superluminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) may be explained by super-Chandrasekhar-mass explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs (WDs). In a preceding paper, we showed that the deflagration scenario applied to rapidly rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. M. M. Pfannes , J. C. Niemeyer , W. Schmidt

Recently, several white dwarfs have been proposed with masses significantly above the Chandrasekhar limit, known as Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs, to account for the overluminous Type Ia supernovae. In the present work, Equation of State…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 Somnath Mukhopadhyay , Debasis Atta , D. N. Basu

Rotation and magnetism are increasingly recognized as important phenomena in stellar evolution. Surface magnetic fields from a few to $20{,}000\,$G have been observed and models have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Leo G. Quentin , Christopher A. Tout

In this paper, we consider triple systems composed of main-sequence (MS) stars, and their internal evolution due to stellar and binary evolution. Our focus is on triples that produce white dwarfs (WDs), where Roche lobe overflow of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 N. W. C. Leigh , S. Toonen , S. F. Portegies Zwart , R. Perna

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be used as the standard candlelight to determine the cosmological distances because they are thought to have a uniform fuel amount. Recent observations of several overluminous SNe Ia suggest that the white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-24 Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity can lead to modifications of the gravitational force inside astrophysical objects. We exhibit that compact stars such as white dwarfs provide a unique set-up to test beyond Horndeski theories of ${\rm G}^3$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Rajeev Kumar Jain , Chris Kouvaris , Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

White dwarfs (WDs), the evolutionary endpoints of most stars, can form through both single-star and binary channels. While single-star evolutionary models enable reliable WD age estimates, binary evolution introduces interactions that can…

It has long been accepted that a possible mechanism for explaining the existence of magnetic white dwarfs is the merger of a binary white dwarf system, as there are viable mechanisms for producing sustainable magnetic fields within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Baybars Külebi , K. Yavuz Ekşi , Pablo Lorén-Aguilar , Jordi Isern , Enrique García-Berro

Gravitational wave emission can lead to the coalescence of close pairs of compact objects orbiting each other. For the case of neutron stars such mergers may yield masses above the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, leading to the formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-06 V. V. Gvaramadze , G. Gräfener , N. Langer , O. V. Maryeva , A. Y. Kniazev , A. S. Moskvitin , O. I. Spiridonova

Over the past couple of decades, researchers have predicted more than a dozen super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs from the detections of over-luminous type Ia supernovae. It turns out that magnetic fields and rotation can explain such massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-19 Surajit Kalita

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

Ever since the observation of peculiar over-luminous type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), exploring possible violations of the canonical Chandrasekhar mass-limit (CML) has become a pressing research area of modern astrophysics. Since its first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Debabrata Deb , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Fridolin Weber