The Internal Structure of Charged Inhomogeneous, Static, Relativistic Spheres.
Abstract
The set of static, spherically symmetric Einstein Maxwell equations can be made determinate for a system containing fundamentally different types of particle by the addition of equations obtained from the extremization of the energy of the static configuration with respect to variations in the number densities of the various particle types. The new determinate set of equations was used to model a white dwarf star and a neutron star composed of charged particles. The charge configurations of these stars are given and their relative values were compared. It was found that the static charges of these bodies are quite small, as is usually assumed, and that the new models differ little from the standard uncharged relativistic models.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhDT.........3O
- Keywords:
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- Physics: Astronomy and Astrophysics;
- Astronomical Models;
- Charged Particles;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Chemical Equilibrium;
- Gibbs Free Energy;
- Hydrodynamic Equations;
- Neutron Stars;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Astronomy