The relativistic Feynman-Metropolis-Teller treatment at finite temperatures

Abstract

The Feynman-Metropolis-Teller treatment of compressed atoms has been recently generalized to relativistic regimes and applied to the description of static and rotating white dwarfs in general relativity. We present here the extension of this treatment to the case of finite temperatures and construct the corresponding equation of state (EOS) of the system; applicable in a wide regime of densities that includes both white dwarfs and neutron star outer crusts. We construct the mass-radius relation of white dwarfs at finite temperatures obeying this new EOS and apply it to the analysis of ultra low-mass white dwarfs with $M\lesssim 0.2M_{\odot }$. In particular, we analyze the case of the white dwarf companion of PSR J1738+0333. The formulation is then extrapolated to compressed nuclear matter cores of stellar dimensions, systems with mass numbers $A\approx (m_{\mathrm{Planck}}/m_n{)}^3$ or mass $M_{\mathrm{core}}\approx M_{\odot }$, where $m_{\mathrm{Planck}}$ and $m_n$ are the Planck and the nucleon mass. For $T\ll m_e{c}^2/k_B\approx 5.9\times 10^9$ K, a family of equilibrium configurations can be obtained with analytic solutions of the ultra-relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation at finite temperatures. Such configurations fulfill global but not local charge neutrality and have strong electric fields on the core surface. We find that the maximum electric field at the core surface is enhanced at finite temperatures with respect to the degenerate case.

Matches version to appear in Physical Review C

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