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The physics of Chandrasekhar and Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs

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dc.contributor Centelles Aixalà, Mario
dc.creator Molina Lumbreras, Edgar
dc.date 2015-10-22T07:54:42Z
dc.date 2015-10-22T07:54:42Z
dc.date 2015-06
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:21:17Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:21:17Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/67404
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/12453
dc.description Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2015, Tutor: Mario Centelles
dc.description We consider white dwarfs to be composed by a degenerate electron gas at zero temperature and study the underlying physics. The electron pressure can only balance the gravitational force up to a maximum mass of the white dwarf, the so-called Chandrasekhar mass. By writing our own code, we have found the value of this limiting mass to be 1.417 solar masses, in accordance with most observations. However, recent discoveries of overluminous type Ia supernovae explosions suggest white dwarf masses above the Chandrasekhar limit. Motivated by recent literature, we show in this work that the presence of an intense magnetic field in the star leads to a higher value of the maximum mass, which could explain these new observations.
dc.format 5 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Molina Lumbreras, 2015
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Treballs Finals de Grau (TFG) - Física
dc.subject Estels nans
dc.subject Dinàmica estel·lar
dc.subject Treballs de fi de grau
dc.subject Dwarf stars
dc.subject Stellar dynamics
dc.subject Bachelor's theses
dc.title The physics of Chandrasekhar and Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis


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