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We present the first radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the atmosphere of white dwarf stars. We demonstrate that convective energy transfer is seriously impeded by magnetic fields when the plasma-beta parameter, the thermal to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 P. -E. Tremblay , G. Fontaine , B. Freytag , O. Steiner , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Steffen , S. Wedemeyer , P. Brassard

We compute static equilibria of white dwarf stars containing strong poloidal magnetic field, and present the modification of white dwarf mass-radius relation caused by the magnetic field. We find that a maximum white dwarf mass of about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 Prasanta Bera , Dipankar Bhattacharya

White dwarfs (WDs) can be tidally disrupted only by massive black holes (MBHs) with masses less than $\sim10^5 M_\odot$. These tidal interactions feed material to the MBH well above its Eddington limit, with the potential to launch a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Morgan MacLeod , Jacqueline Goldstein , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , James Guillochon , Johan Samsing

Recent results of the event horizon-scale images of M87* and Sagittarius A* from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration show that strong magnetic fields are likely present around the central black holes (BHs) in these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera Markoff , Ramesh Narayan

Most of the dark matter (DM) search over the last few decades has focused on WIMPs, but the viable parameter space is quickly shrinking. Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) is a WIMP-like DM candidate with slightly smaller masses and no present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Troy J. Raen , Héctor Martínez-Rodríguez , Travis J. Hurst , Andrew R. Zentner , Carles Badenes , Rachel Tao

White dwarfs offer a compelling avenue for probing interactions of dark matter particles, particularly in the challenging sub-GeV mass regime. The constraints derived from these celestial objects strongly depend on the existence of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-09 Jaime Hoefken Zink , Shihwen Hor , Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada

Dark Matter (DM) can be trapped by the gravitational field of any star, since collisions with nuclei in dense environments can slow down the DM particle below the escape velocity ($v_{esc}$) at the surface of the star. If captured, the DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Cosmin Ilie , Caleb Levy , Jacob Pilawa , Saiyang Zhang

Compact stars serve as natural systems where matter exists at densities far beyond those achievable in laboratory experiments. Among them, magnetars are expected to possess interior magnetic fields that may reach values of the order of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Monika Sinha , Vivek Baruah Thapa

Over the last few decades, there has been considerable interest in the violation of the sacred "Chandrasekhar" mass limit of white dwarfs (WDs). Peculiar over-luminous type Ia supernovae (such as SNLS-03D3bb) lend observational support to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Zenia Zuraiq , Achal Kumar , Alexander J. Hackett , Surendra Bhattarai , Christopher A. Tout , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We present 2D multi-group flux-limited diffusion magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the Accretion-Induced Collapse (AIC) of a rapidly-rotating white dwarf. We focus on the dynamical role of MHD processes after the formation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luc Dessart , Adam Burrows , Eli Livne , Christian Ott

The most recent detections of LIGO/Virgo and NICER have placed strong constraints on neutron stars' properties. In this work, we study neutron stars modeling them as hybrid stars, compact objects with a quark matter core surrounded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Mauro Mariani , Daniela Curin , Milva G. Orsaria , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval

The evolution of the magnetic field of an accreting magnetic white dwarf with an initially dipolar field at the surface has been studied for non-spherical accretion under simplifying assumptions. Accretion on to the polar regions tends to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 C. M. Zhang , D. T. Wickramasinghe , L. Ferrario

An analysis of dark matter within the framework of modular invariant soft breaking is given. In such scenarios inclusion of the radiative electroweak symmetry breaking constraint determines $\tan\beta$ which leads to a more constrained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Utpal Chattopadhyay , Pran Nath

In recent years a number of white dwarfs has been observed with very high surface magnetic fields. We can expect that the magnetic field in the core of these stars would be much higher (~ 10^{14} G). In this paper, we analytically study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-09 Aritra Kundu , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We consider a relativistic, degenerate, electron gas under the influence of a strong magnetic field, which describes magnetized white dwarfs. Landau quantization changes the density of states available to the electrons, thus modifying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-20 Upasana Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Relativistic collimated outflows, or jets, provide a crucial mode of active galactic nucleus feedback. Although jets extract their energy from the black hole (BH) rotation, their effect on the BH spin is poorly understood. Because the spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Beverly Lowell , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Three periodically variable stars have recently been discovered (V407 Vul, P=9.5 min; ES Cet, P=10.3 min; RX J0806.3+1527, P=5.3 min) with properties that suggest that their photometric periods are also their orbital periods, making them…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. R. Marsh , G. Nelemans , D. Steeghs

We study dark matter freeze-in scenarios where the mass of the mediator particle that couples dark matter to the Standard Model is larger than the reheat temperature, TRH, in the early Universe. In such setups, the standard approach is to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Evan Frangipane , Stefania Gori , Bibhushan Shakya

In our investigation, we pioneer the development of geometrically deformed strange stars within the framework of teleparallel gravity theory through gravitational decoupling via the complete geometric deformation (CGD) technique. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Sneha Pradhan , Piyali Bhar , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo , Kazuharu Bamba

When a star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it either explodes as a supernova or more quiescently becomes a white dwarf, an object about half the mass of our Sun with a radius of about that of the Earth. About one fifth of white dwarfs exhibit…