Current challenges in the physics of white dwarf stars

D Saumon, S Blouin, PE Tremblay - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
White dwarfs are a class of stars with unique physical properties. They present many
challenging problems whose solution requires advanced theories of dense matter, state-of …

Modeling wormholes in gravity

P Moraes, PK Sahoo - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
In this work, we propose the modeling of static wormholes within the f (R, T) extended theory
of gravity perspective. We present some models of wormholes, which are constructed from …

Stellar equilibrium configurations of white dwarfs in the f(RT) gravity

GA Carvalho, RV Lobato, P Moraes… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
In this work we investigate the equilibrium configurations of white dwarfs in a modified
gravity theory, namely, f (R, T) gravity, for which R and T stand for the Ricci scalar and trace …

Evolution towards and beyond accretion-induced collapse of massive white dwarfs and formation of millisecond pulsars

TM Tauris, D Sanyal, SC Yoon, N Langer - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are generally believed to be old neutron stars (NSs),
formed via type Ib/c core-collapse supernovae (SNe), which have been spun up to high …

Newtonian polytropes for anisotropic matter: General framework and applications

L Herrera, W Barreto - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
We set up the general formalism to model polytropic Newtonian stars with anisotropic
pressure. We obtain the corresponding Lane-Emden equation. A heuristic model based on …

Conformally flat polytropes for anisotropic matter

L Herrera, A Di Prisco, W Barreto, J Ospino - General Relativity and …, 2014 - Springer
We analyze in detail conformally flat spherically symmetric fluid distributions, satisfying a
polytropic equation of state. Among the two possible families of relativistic polytropes, only …

[HTML][HTML] Weak-field limit of f (R) gravity to unify peculiar white dwarfs

S Kalita, L Sarmah - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the idea of sub-and super-Chandrasekhar limiting mass white dwarfs (WDs),
which are potential candidates to produce under-and over-luminous type Ia supernovae …

The Progenitors of Superluminous Type Ia Supernovae

MF Axen, P Nugent - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have discovered a subclass of" super-
Chandrasekhar" SNe Ia (SC SNe Ia) whose high luminosities and low ejecta velocities …

Constraints on modified gravity models from white dwarfs

S Banerjee, S Shankar, TP Singh - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Modified gravity theories can introduce modifications to the Poisson equation in the
Newtonian limit. As a result, we expect to see interesting features of these modifications …

Parameterized nonrelativistic limit of stellar structure equations in Ricci-based gravity theories

GJ Olmo, D Rubiera-Garcia, A Wojnar - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present the nonrelativistic limit of the stellar structure equations of Ricci-based gravities,
a family of metric-affine theories whose Lagrangian is built via contractions of the metric with …