Mass and Radius of a Near-Chandrasekhar-limit magnetic white dwarf

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Jul 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006hst..prop10930j&link_type=abstract

HST Proposal ID #10930. Cycle 15

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REJ0317-853 is a unique object. According to our analyses it is the most massive white dwarf ever found, with a mass of 1.35 solar masses, approaching the Chandrasekhar limit. With a period of just 725 seconds it is the most rapidly rotating isolated white dwarf ever found. Moreover, RE J0317-853 is the hottest magnetic white dwarf discovered so far and has a strong magnetic field varying from about 180 to more than 700 MG over the stellar surface. Due to its strong polarization and high mass it has been used to test gravitational theories predicting gravitational birefringence. However, the existing mass and radius determination is indirect and still uncertain and would greatly profit from a high-precision parallax determination with the HST FGS.

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