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Ultra-magnetized white dwarfs with interior fields up to 1018 G have recently been proposed to have a critical mass limit M max ≈ 2.58 M ⊙, which surpasses the traditional Chandrasekhar limit M ch ≈ 1.44M ⊙. We show that several stability criteria and fundamental physical aspects that take place when huge magnetic fields and high densities are present have been neglected in the determination of such a new mass limit for white dwarfs, invalidating that result.
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Cáceres, D.L., Rueda, J.A. & Ruffini, R. On the stability of ultra-magnetized white dwarfs. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 65, 846–849 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.65.846
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