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 the idea that these super-Chandrasekhar WDs exist. Our group, for more than a decade, has been actively working on the theoretical possibility of these objects through the presence of the star’s magnetic field. The magnetic field greatly contributes to the existence of these massive WDs, both through classical and quantum effects. In this chapter, we explore super-Chandrasekhar WDs, formed via evolution from a main sequence star, as a result of the classical effects of the star’s magnetic field. We obtain super-Chandrasekhar WDs and new mass limit(s), depending on the magnetic field geometry. We explore the full evolution and stability of these objects from the main sequence stage through the one-dimensional stellar evolution code STARS. In order to do so, we have appropriately modified the given codes by introducing magnetic effect and cooling. Our simulation confirms that massive WDs are possible in the presence of a magnetic field satisfying underlying stability.

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Simulating Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs

  • Zenia Zuraiq,
  • Achal Kumar,
  • Alexander J. Hackett,
  • Surendra Bhattarai,
  • Christopher A. Tout,
  • Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

摘要

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 the idea that these super-Chandrasekhar WDs exist. Our group, for more than a decade, has been actively working on the theoretical possibility of these objects through the presence of the star’s magnetic field. The magnetic field greatly contributes to the existence of these massive WDs, both through classical and quantum effects. In this chapter, we explore super-Chandrasekhar WDs, formed via evolution from a main sequence star, as a result of the classical effects of the star’s magnetic field. We obtain super-Chandrasekhar WDs and new mass limit(s), depending on the magnetic field geometry. We explore the full evolution and stability of these objects from the main sequence stage through the one-dimensional stellar evolution code STARS. In order to do so, we have appropriately modified the given codes by introducing magnetic effect and cooling. Our simulation confirms that massive WDs are possible in the presence of a magnetic field satisfying underlying stability.