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The theory of thepolytropic gas spheres in conjunction with the equation of state of arelativislically degenerate electrongas leads to aunique value for the mass of a star built on this model. This mass (=0.9I⊙) is interpreted as representing the upper limit to the mass of an ideal white dwarf.
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Chandrasekhar, S. The maximum mass of ideal white dwarfs. J. Astrophys. Astr. 15, 115–116 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03012171
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