scholarly journals The most massive white dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (4) ◽  
pp. 5397-5408
Author(s):  
Mukremin Kilic ◽  
P Bergeron ◽  
Simon Blouin ◽  
A Bédard
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Transverse Velocity ◽  
Maximum Mass ◽  
Model Calculations ◽  
Rapid Rotation ◽  
Rotation Rates ◽  
Binary Mergers ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit

ABSTRACT We present an analysis of the most massive white dwarf candidates in the Montreal White Dwarf Database 100 pc sample. We identify 25 objects that would be more massive than $1.3\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$ if they had pure H atmospheres and CO cores, including two outliers with unusually high photometric mass estimates near the Chandrasekhar limit. We provide follow-up spectroscopy of these two white dwarfs and show that they are indeed significantly below this limit. We expand our model calculations for CO core white dwarfs up to M = 1.334 M⊙, which corresponds to the high-density limit of our equation-of-state tables, ρ = 109 g cm−3. We find many objects close to this maximum mass of our CO core models. A significant fraction of ultramassive white dwarfs are predicted to form through binary mergers. Merger populations can reveal themselves through their kinematics, magnetism, or rapid rotation rates. We identify four outliers in transverse velocity, four likely magnetic white dwarfs (one of which is also an outlier in transverse velocity), and one with rapid rotation, indicating that at least 8 of the 25 ultramassive white dwarfs in our sample are likely merger products.

scholarly journals White dwarf stars in modified gravity

2021 ◽  
pp. 2140006
Author(s):  
Aneta Wojnar
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
Modified Gravity ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Age Determination ◽  
Dwarf Stars ◽  
White Dwarf Stars ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit

A few questions related to white dwarfs’ physics is posed. It seems that the modified gravity framework can be a good starting point to provide alternative explanations to cooling processes, their age determination, and Chandrasekhar mass limits. Moreover, we have also obtained the Chandrasekhar limit coming from Palatini [Formula: see text] gravity provided by a simple Lane–Emden model.

scholarly journals Stable Up-Down Quark Matter Nuggets, Quark Star Crusts, and a New Family of White Dwarfs

Galaxies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Lang Wang ◽  
Jian Hu ◽  
Cheng-Jun Xia ◽  
Jian-Feng Xu ◽  
Guang-Xiong Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quark Matter ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Maximum Mass ◽  
Quark Star ◽  
Small Surface ◽  
New Family ◽  
Quark Stars ◽  
Down Quark ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit

The possible existence of stable up-down quark matter (udQM) was recently proposed, and it was shown that the properties of udQM stars are consistent with various pulsar observations. In this work we investigate the stability of udQM nuggets and found at certain size those objects are more stable than others if a large symmetry energy and a small surface tension were adopted. In such cases, a crust made of udQM nuggets exists in quark stars. A new family of white dwarfs comprised entirely of udQM nuggets and electrons were also obtained, where the maximum mass approaches to the Chandrasekhar limit.

scholarly journals Optical detection of the rapidly spinning white dwarf in V1460 Her

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Pelisoli ◽  
R T Marsh ◽  
R P Ashley ◽  
Pasi Hakala ◽  
A Aungwerojwit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Binary Systems ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Cataclysmic Variable ◽  
Optical Photometry ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Precise Ephemeris ◽  
History Of

Abstract Accreting magnetic white dwarfs offer an opportunity to understand the interplay between spin-up and spin-down torques in binary systems. Monitoring of the white dwarf spin may reveal whether the white dwarf spin is currently in a state of near-equilibrium, or of uni-directional evolution towards longer or shorter periods, reflecting the recent history of the system and providing constraints for evolutionary models. This makes the monitoring of the spin history of magnetic white dwarfs of high interest. In this paper we report the results of a campaign of follow-up optical photometry to detect and track the 39 sec white dwarf spin pulses recently discovered in Hubble Space Telescope data of the cataclysmic variable V1460 Her. We find the spin pulsations to be present in g-band photometry at a typical amplitude of 0.4 per cent. Under favourable observing conditions, the spin signal is detectable using 2-meter class telescopes. We measured pulse-arrival times for all our observations, which allowed us to derive a precise ephemeris for the white dwarf spin. We have also derived an orbital modulation correction that can be applied to the measurements. With our limited baseline of just over four years, we detect no evidence yet for spin-up or spin-down of the white dwarf, obtaining a lower limit of $|P/\dot{P}| > 4\times 10^{7}$ years, which is already 4 to 8 times longer than the timescales measured in two other cataclysmic variable systems containing rapidly rotating white dwarfs, AE Aqr and AR Sco.

scholarly journals White dwarf accretion and type Ia supernovae

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S290) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Z. Han ◽  
X. Chen
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Lower Mass ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit ◽  
Ia Supernovae

AbstractType Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are believed to be thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs at a mass close to the Chandrasekhar limit. However, a white dwarf at birth has a significantly lower mass and needs to accrete mass to grow to the limit for the explosion. Various progenitor models have been proposed and those models play an important role in our understanding of SNe Ia and cosmology.

scholarly journals Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters

2004 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Natalia Ivanova ◽  
Frederic A. Rasio
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
Globular Clusters ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Cataclysmic Variables ◽  
Population Synthesis ◽  
Compact Binaries ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Cluster Cores ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit

AbstractIn dense stellar systems the frequent dynamical interactions between stars play a crucial role in the formation and evolution of compact binaries. We study these processes using a novel approach combining a state-of-the- art binary population synthesis code with a simple treatment of dynamical interactions in dense star cluster cores. Here we focus on the dynamical and evolutionary processes leading to the formation of compact binaries containing white dwarfs in dense globular clusters. We demonstrate that dynamics can increase by factors ~ 2 – 100 the production rates of interesting binaries such as cataclysmic variables, “nonflickerers” (He white dwarfs with a heavier dark companion), merging white dwarf binaries with total masses above the Chandrasekhar limit, and white dwarf binaries emitting gravitational waves in the LISA band.

scholarly journals MASS OF HIGHLY MAGNETIZED WHITE DWARFS EXCEEDING THE CHANDRASEKHAR LIMIT: AN ANALYTICAL VIEW

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (15) ◽  
pp. 1250084 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARITRA KUNDU ◽  
BANIBRATA MUKHOPADHYAY
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Landau Level ◽  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Average Energy ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit ◽  
Very High

In recent years a number of white dwarfs have been observed with very high surface magnetic fields. We can expect that the magnetic field in the core of these stars would be much higher (~1014 G ). In this paper, we analytically study the effect of high magnetic field on relativistic cold electron, and hence its effect on the stability and the mass–radius relation of a magnetic white dwarf. In strong magnetic fields, the equation of state of the Fermi gas is modified and Landau quantization comes into play. For relatively very high magnetic fields (with respect to the average energy density of matter) the number of Landau levels is restricted to one or two. We analyze the equation of states for magnetized electron degenerate gas analytically and attempt to understand the conditions in which transitions from the zeroth Landau level to first Landau level occurs. We also find the effect of the strong magnetic field on the star collapsing to a white dwarf, and the mass–radius relation of the resulting star. We obtain an interesting theoretical result that it is possible to have white dwarfs with mass more than the mass set by Chandrasekhar limit.

scholarly journals ON THE MAXIMUM MASS AND MINIMUM ROTATION PERIOD OF RELATIVISTIC UNIFORMLY ROTATING WHITE DWARFS

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
KUANTAY BOSHKAYEV ◽  
JORGE RUEDA ◽  
REMO RUFFINI
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Equation Of State ◽  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Maximum Mass ◽  
Coulomb Interactions ◽  
General Relativistic ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Dynamical Instabilities

We investigate the stability of general relativistic uniformly rotating white dwarfs against secular and dynamical instabilities. We determine the minimum rotation period of stable white dwarfs depending on chemical composition of the white dwarf matter taking into account the Coulomb interactions as well as the nuclear interactions and the electroweak equilibrium at high densities, within the relativistic Feynman-Metropolis-Teller equation of state.

scholarly journals A hyper-runaway white dwarf in Gaia DR2 as a Type Iax supernova primary remnant candidate

2019 ◽  
Vol 489 (1) ◽  
pp. 420-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J Ruffini ◽  
Andrew R Casey
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
High Velocity ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Elemental Abundances ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Gaia Dr2 ◽  
Rule Out

ABSTRACT Observations of stellar remnants linked to Type Ia and Type Iax supernovae are necessary to fully understand their progenitors. Multiple progenitor scenarios predict a population of kicked donor remnants and partially burnt primary remnants, both moving with relatively high velocity. But only a handful of examples consistent with these two predicted populations have been observed. Here we report the likely first known example of an unbound white dwarf that is consistent with being the fully cooled primary remnant to a Type Iax supernova. The candidate, LP 93-21, is travelling with a galactocentric velocity of $v_{\textrm {gal}} \simeq 605\, {\rm km}\, {\rm s}^{-1}$, and is gravitationally unbound to the Milky Way. We rule out an extragalactic origin. The Type Iax supernova ejection scenario is consistent with its peculiar unbound trajectory, given anomalous elemental abundances are detected in its photosphere via spectroscopic follow-up. This discovery reflects recent models that suggest stellar ejections likely occur often. Unfortunately the intrinsic faintness of white dwarfs, and the uncertainty associated with their direct progenitor systems, makes it difficult to detect and confirm such donors.

scholarly journals Searching for ZZ Ceti white dwarfs in the Gaia survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S357) ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Olivier Vincent ◽  
Pierre Bergeron ◽  
David Lafrenière
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Hydrogen Line ◽  
Instability Strip ◽  
Dwarf Stars ◽  
White Dwarf Stars ◽  
Effective Temperatures

AbstractThe Gaia satellite recently released parallax measurements for nearly 400,000 white dwarf stars, allowing for precise measurements of their physical parameters. By combining these parallaxes with Pan-STARRS and CFIS-u photometry, we measured the effective temperatures and surface gravities for all white dwarfs within 100 pc and identified a sample of ZZ Ceti white dwarf candidates within the instability strip. We report the results of a photometric follow-up, currently under way, aimed at identifying new ZZ Ceti stars among this sample using the PESTO camera attached to the 1.6-m telescope at the Mont Mégantic Observatory. Our goal is to verify that ZZ Ceti stars occupy a region in the logg-Teff plane where no nonvariable stars are found, supporting the idea that ZZ Ceti pulsators represent a phase through which all hydrogen-line (DA) white dwarfs must evolve.

scholarly journals White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables: An Update

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
E. M. Sion ◽  
P. Godon
Keyword(s):  
White Dwarf ◽  
White Dwarfs ◽  
Cataclysmic Variables ◽  
Chemical Abundances ◽  
Rotation Rates ◽  
Surface Temperatures ◽  
Accretion Rates ◽  
Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables ◽  
Far Ultraviolet ◽  
Nova Outburst

In this review, we summarize what is currently known about the surface temperatures of accreting white dwarfs in nonmagnetic and magnetic cataclysmic variables (CVs) based upon synthetic spectral analyses of far ultraviolet data. We focus only on white dwarf surface temperatures, since in the area of chemical abundances, rotation rates, WD masses and accretion rates, relatively little has changed since our last review, pending the results of a large HST GO program<br />involving 48 CVs of different CV types. The surface temperature of the white dwarf in SS Cygni is re-examined in the light of its revised distance. We also discuss new HST spectra of the recurrent nova T Pyxidis as it transitioned into quiescence following its April 2011 nova outburst.

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