Entropy and thermodynamical stability of white dwarfs

2024/06/11 by Adam,, Jiří, Truhlík, Emil
#FOS: Physical sciences #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.07010

Abstract

A structure of spherical white dwarfs is calculated for a non-zero temperature. It is shown that the thermodynamical stability of the white dwarf stars can be described naturally within the concept of the Helmholtz free energy of the Coulomb fully ionized electron-ion plasma.

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