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Participant	Malheiro, Manuel
Institution	Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - Praça Marechal Eduardo Gomes, 50 - Sao Jose dos Campos - Sao paulo - Brazil

Session	WD2	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Dynamical instability of magnetic white dwarfs under the presence of extreme magnetic fields
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Abstract	Massive, highly magnetized white dwarfs with fields up to 10^9 G have been observed and theoretically used for the description of a variety of astrophysical phenomena. Ultramagnetized white dwarfs with uniform interior fields up to 10^18 G, have been recently purported to obey a new maximum mass limit, Mmax ≈ 2.58 M⊙, which largely overcomes the traditional Chandrasekhar value, MCh ≈ 1.44 M⊙. Such a much larger limit would make these astrophysical objects viable candidates for the explanation of the superluminous population of type Ia supernovae. We show that several macro and micro physical aspects such as gravitational, dynamical stability, breaking of spherical symmetry, general relativity, inverse β-decay, and pycnonuclear fusion reactions are of most relevance for the self-consistent description of the structure and assessment of stability of these objects. It is shown in this work that the first family of magnetized white dwarfs indeed satisfy all the criteria of stability, while the ultramagnetized white dwarfs are very unlikely to exist in nature since they violate minimal requests of stability.
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