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Continuous gravitational waves from magnetized white dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

Surajit Kalita Open the ORCID record for Surajit Kalita [Opens in a new window]  and
Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
Surajit Kalita
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore560012, India emails: [email protected], email: [email protected]
Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore560012, India emails: [email protected], email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Recent evidence of super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs (WDs), from the observations of over-luminous type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), has been a great astrophysical discovery. However, no such massive WDs have so far been observed directly as their luminosities are generally quite low. Hence it immediately raises the question of whether there is any possibility of detecting them directly. The search for super-Chandrasekhar WDs is very important as SNeIa are used as standard candles in cosmology. In this article, we show that continuous gravitational wave can allow us to detect such super-Chandrasekhar WDs directly.

Keywords

(stars:) white dwarfsgravitational wavesstars: magnetic fieldsstars: rotation
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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S357: White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics: Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution , October 2019 , pp. 79 - 83
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© International Astronomical Union 2020

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