Maximum mass of stable magnetized highly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs: stable solutions with varying magnetic fields

Apr 30, 2014
7 pages
Published in:
  • JCAP 06 (2014) 050
  • Published: 2014
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We address the issue of stability of recently proposed significantly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs. We present stable solutions of magnetostatic equilibrium models for super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs pertaining to various magnetic field profiles. This has been obtained by self-consistently including the effects of the magnetic pressure gradient and total magnetic density in a general relativistic framework. We estimate that the maximum stable mass of magnetized white dwarfs could be more than 3 solar mass. This is very useful to explain peculiar, overluminous type Ia supernovae which do not conform to the traditional Chandrasekhar mass-limit.
Note:
  • 10+1 pages including 4 figures and 1 table; version accepted for publication in JCAP
  • white and brown dwarfs
  • magnetic fields
  • supernova type Ia - standard candles