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General relativity can be formulated equivalently with a non-Riemannian geometry that associates with an affine connection of nonzero nonmetricity $Q$ but vanishing curvature $R$ and torsion $T$. Modification based on this description of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Rui-Hui Lin , Xiang-Hua Zhai

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

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

The existence of possible massive white dwarfs more than the Chandrasekhar limit ($1.45M_{\odot }$, in which $M_{\odot }$ is mass of the sun) is a challenging topic. In this regard and motivated by the important effect of massive graviton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 B. Eslam Panah , H. L. Liu

Massive, highly magnetized white dwarfs with fields up to $10^9$ G have been observed and theoretically used for the description of a variety of astrophysical phenomena. Ultramagnetized white dwarfs with uniform interior fields up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-29 J. G. Coelho , R. M. Marinho , M. Malheiro , R. Negreiros , D. L. Cáceres , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

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 take into account redshift-space distortion measurements to investigate the growth of cosmological large-scale structures within the framework of modified symmetric teleparallel $f(Q)$ gravity. After comparing the predictions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Shambel Sahlu , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Amare Abebe

Noncommutative geometry is one of the quantum gravity theories, which various researchers have been using to describe different physical and astrophysical systems. However, so far, no direct observations can justify its existence, and this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Surajit Kalita , T. R. Govindarajan , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs are a timely topic in the last years in the scientific community due to its connection to supernovae type Ia (SN Ia). Some early studies tackled the possibility of white dwarfs surpassing the Chandrasekhar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-20 Ronaldo V. Lobato , Geanderson A. Carvalho , Neelima G. Kelkar , Marek Nowakowski

The symmetric teleparallel theory offers an alternative gravitational formulation which can elucidate events in the early and late universe without requiring the physical existence of dark matter or dark energy. In this formalism, $f(Q, C)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Ganesh Subramaniam , Avik De , Tee-How Loo , Yong Kheng Goh

A few questions related to white dwarfs' physics is posed. It seems that the modified gravity framework can be a good starting point to provide alternative explanations to cooling processes, their age determination, and Chandrasekhar mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-29 Aneta Wojnar

The purpose of this thesis is to obtain more realistic equations of state to describe the matter forming magnetized white dwarfs, and use them to solve its structure equations. The equations of state are determined by considering the weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-06 D. Alvear Terrero , D. Manreza Paret , A. Pérez Martínez

We investigate white dwarfs in the framework of f(R,L_m) and f(R,L_m,T) gravity to explore the Chandrasekhar Limit. We have considered two functional forms of f(R,L_m) and one functional form of f(R,L_m,T) gravity. Considering the matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 N. Priyobarta , S. K. Maurya , Ksh. Newton Singh , B. Mishra

In this work, we study the properties of magnetized white dwarfs taking into account possible instabilities due to electron capture and pycnonuclear fusion reactions in the cores of such objects. The structure of white dwarfs is obtained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Edson Otoniel , Bruno Franzon , Manuel Malheiro , Stefan Schramm , Fridolin Weber

In Palatini $f(R)$ gravity, the parameters of the Schwarzschild - de Sitter solution as well as the whole interior solutions of compact objects are expected to change when compared to general relativity. We solve the Palatini field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-07 Vappu Reijonen

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

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

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

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

Motivation: Motivated by the growing interest in understanding the role of non-metricity in describing dense stellar systems, in this paper, we study compact stellar configurations within the framework of linear $f(Q)$ gravity. Methodology:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Arpita Ghosh , Abhishek Paul , Ranjan Sharma , Samstuti Chanda