Das, U and Mukhopadhyay, B (2018) Highly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs in an extensive GRMHD framework. In: 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, 12 - 18 July 2015, Rome, pp. 4297-4302.
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Abstract
Our consistent effort to unravel the mystery of super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs (WDs), by exploiting the potential of magnetic fields, has brought this topic considerable attention. This is also evident from the recent surge in the corresponding literature. In the present work, by means of full-scale general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) numerical analysis, we confirm the existence of stable, highly magnetized, significantly super-Chandrasekhar WDs having mass exceeding 3 solar mass. We have explored various possible field configurations, namely, poloidal, toroidal and mixed, by self-consistently incorporating the departure from spherical symmetry induced by a strong magnetic field. Such super-Chandrasekhar WDs can be ideal progenitors of peculiar, over-luminous type Ia supernovae. Copyright © 2018 by the Editors.All rights reserved.
Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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Publication: | 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, Proceedings |
Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. |
Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
Keywords: | Astrophysics; Gravitation; Magnetohydrodynamics; Relativity; Supernovae, Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics; Solar mass; Spherical symmetry; Stars: magnetic field; Stars: massive; Strong magnetic fields; Supernovae: general, White dwarfs |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2022 10:21 |
Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2022 10:21 |
URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/76350 |
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