Das, Upasana and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata (2015) GRMHD formulation of highly super-Chandrasekhar magnetized white dwarfs: stable configurations of non-spherical white dwarfs. In: JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS (5).
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Abstract
The topic of magnetized super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs is in the limelight, particularly in the last few years, since our proposal of their existence. By full-scale general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical analysis, we confirm in this work the existence of stable, highly magnetized, significantly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs with mass more than 3 solar mass. While a poloidal field geometry renders the white dwarfs oblate, a toroidal field makes them prolate retaining an overall quasi-spherical shape, as speculated in our earlier work. These white dwarfs are expected to serve as the progenitors of over-luminous type Ia supernovae.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS |
Publisher: | IOP PUBLISHING LTD |
Additional Information: | Copy right for this article belongs to the IOP PUBLISHING LTD, TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND |
Keywords: | white and brown dwarfs; gravity; Magnetohydrodynamics; supernova type Ia - standard candles |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2015 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2015 09:41 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/51888 |
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