2016/02/29 by Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph.HE #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.00136
6 pages including 1 figure; to appear in the Proceedings of 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting (MG14), Rome, Italy, 12-18 July 2015; based on the talk given in the meeting in the session AT1
openalex publication_date 2016/02/29 · arxiv created 2016/03/01 · arxiv updated 2016/03/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Observations of several peculiar, under- and over-luminous type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) argue for exploding masses widely different from the Chandrasekhar-limit. We explore the modification to Einstein's gravity in white dwarfs for the first time in the literature, which shows that depending on the (density dependent) modified gravity parameter α, chosen for the present purpose of representation, limiting mass of white dwarfs could be significantly sub- as well as super-Chandrasekhar. Hence, this unifies the apparently disjoint classes of SNeIa, establishing the importance of modified Einstein's gravity in white dwarfs. Our discovery questions both the global validity of Einstein's gravity and the uniqueness of Chandrasekhar's limit.