On the Critical Mass: the case of white dwarfs

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2000-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006037v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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11 pages, 2 figures, to appear in "Exploring the Universe", a Festschrift in honour of Riccardo Giacconi, H. Gursky, R. Ruffin

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We recall the generalization of the Feynman-Metropolis-Teller approximation for a compressed atom using a relativistic Fermi-Thomas model. These results within a Wigner-Seitz approximation lead to a new equation of state for white dwarfs and to a new value of their critical mass, smaller than the one obtained by Chandrasekhar. The possible observations of these effects in binary neutron stars are outlined.

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