http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00133
Since 2012, we have initiated a new idea showing that the mass of highly magnetized or modified Einstein’s gravity induced white dwarfs could be significantly super-Chandrasekhar with a different mass-limit. This discovery has several important consequences, including explanation of peculiar, over-luminous type Ia supernovae, soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars without invoking extraordinarily strong, yet unobserved, magnetic fields. It further argues for a possible second standard candle. Based on simpler calculations, these white dwarfs are also shown to be much less luminous than their standard counter-parts (of low magnetic fields). This discovery altogether initiates a new field of research.
B. Mukhopadhyay, U. Das, A. Rao, et. al.
Wed, 2 Nov 16
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Comments: 6 pages including 2 figures; to appear in proceedings of The 20th European Workshop on White Dwarfs (EuroWD16)
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