http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00571
We perform calculations of white dwarfs endowed with strong magnetic fields. White dwarfs are the progenitors of supernova Type Ia explosions and they are widely used as candles to show that the Universe is expanding and accelerating. However, observations of ultraluminous supernovae have suggested that the progenitor of such an explosion should be a white dwarf with mass above the well-known Chandrasekhar limit $\sim \,$1.4 $\rm{M_{\odot}}$. In corroboration with other works, but by using a fully general relativistic framework, we obtained also strongly magnetized white dwarfs with masses $\rm{M \sim 2.0\,\, M_{\odot}}$.
B. Franzon and S. Schramm
Fri, 3 Feb 17
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Comments: Prepared for Conference “Compact Stars in the QCD phase diagram V” 23-27 May 2016 GSSI and LNGS (L’Aquila, Italy)
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