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    • XLVIII. The density of white dwarf stars

      S. Chandrasekhar

      Volume 15 Issue 2 June 1994 pp 105-109

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    • Abstract

       

      The density of the white dwarf stars is reconsidered from the point of view of the theory of the poly tropic gas spheres, and gives for themean density of a white dwarf (under ideal conditions) the formula ρ=2.162 × 106 × (M/⊙)2.

      The above formula is derived on considerations which are a much nearer approximation to the conditionsactually existent in a white dwarf than the previous calculations of Stoner based on uniform density distribution in the star and which gave for the limiting density the formula ρ=3.977 × 106 × (M/⊙)2.

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      S. Chandrasekhar

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        June 1994

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