Simulating super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs

Understand

Over the last few decades, there has been considerable interest in the violation of the sacred "Chandrasekhar" mass limit of white dwarfs (WDs).

• Peculiar over-luminous type Ia supernovae (such as SNLS-03D3bb) lend observational support to the idea that these super-Chandrasekhar WDs exist.
• Our group, for more than a decade, has been actively working on the theoretical possibility of these objects through the presence of the star's magnetic field.
• The magnetic field greatly contributes to the existence of these massive WDs, both through classical and quantum effects.