Chandrasekhar Limit : Size of White Dwarfs

ISBN-13: 9783330317666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 52 str.

Rakesh Kumar Pandey

Opis

The book Chandrasekhar Limit presents a brief biography of Subrahmanya Chandrasekhar who had derived a limit for the first time for white dwarfs popularly known as the Chandrasekhar limit after he had received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his discovery, full explanation of basic principles of white dwarfs and estimation of exact value of Chandrasekhar limit. Out of three methods, the approach with the estimation of minimum energy of white dwarf under ultrarelativistic condition overestimates the limit, the statistical approach underestimates the limit, and the method with inclusion of Lane-Emden equation into polytropic state of white dwarf gives exact value of the limit. The elucidation of book is in quite simple lingo and straight forward without ambiguities with clear illustrations to be clearly understood to readers. Undergraduate, graduate, and research students may find the book worth valuable in their endeavors.

O autorze

Rakesh Kumar Pandey: PhD in Physics from BHU is a lecturer. He has published several research paper and books of international repute. He has derived for the first time analytical expressions for structure factor using OZ equation under MMSA for CAP and for space expansion rate, and has established a new uncertainty limit of mass-time measurements.