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Questions about electron degenerate stellar remnants.

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Hypothetical upper and lower bounds for Chandrasekhar limit based on composition?

Disclaimer: I'm going to be using the term "white dwarf" to refer to any spherical celestial body made of electron degenerate matter. If I had a better term, I would use it. The Chandrasekhar limit fo …
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Do all C-O white dwarfs have more-or-less the same proportions of carbon and oxygen?

Type 1a supernovae are known for having very consistent energy yields, and they are caused when a carbon-oxygen white dwarf reaches the Chandrasekhar limit of about 1.4 solar masses. Since type 1a sup …
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