A maximum mass for ideal white dwarfs is published

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1. Story
2. Chandrasekhar's paper The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs appeared in the Astrophysical Journal, showing that relativistic degeneracy sets an upper bound on the mass a cold star can support. The number in that paper, under its own assumptions, was about 0.91 solar masses; the familiar value near 1.4 came from the fuller treatment that followed. Arthur Eddington rejected the conclusion publicly and its acceptance was delayed for years, but it is now the boundary that separates the two families of stellar ending.
3. Knowledge
4. Degeneracy pressure
5. Chandrasekhar limit
6. White dwarf
7. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
8. A maximum mass for ideal white dwarfs is published
9. Connections
10. Chandrasekhar limit
11. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
12. Degeneracy pressure
13. White dwarf
14. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
15. Degeneracy pressure
16. White dwarf
17. A maximum mass for ideal white dwarfs is published
18. Chandrasekhar limit
19. A maximum mass for ideal white dwarfs is published
20. Chandrasekhar limit
21. White dwarf
22. Neutron star
23. A maximum mass for ideal white dwarfs is published
24. A radius is measured for the heaviest known neutron star
25. Chandrasekhar limit
26. Degeneracy pressure
27. Red giant and asymptotic giant branch
28. Sirius B
29. Alvan Graham Clark sees Sirius B
30. A maximum mass for ideal white dwarfs is published
31. Evidence
32. Derives an upper mass bound for a body supported by relativistic electron degeneracy. Journal, volume and pages come from an ADS scan listing seen via search; the paper was not fetched, and the statement that its own derived value was about 0.91 solar masses rests on a secondary summary.