Comment on "Strong constraints on magnetized white dwarfs surpassing the Chandrasekhar mass limit"

Abstract

We show that the upper bound for the central magnetic field of a super-Chandrasekhar white dwarf calculated by Nityananda and Konar [Phys. Rev. D 89, 103017 (2014)] is completely erroneous. This in turn strengthens the argument in favor of the stability of the recently proposed magnetized super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs. We also point out several other numerical errors in their work. Overall we conclude, based on our calculations, that the arguments put forth by Nityananda and Konar are fallacious and misleading.

Comment on Nityananda & Konar, Phys. Rev. D 89, 103017 (2014) (arXiv:1306.1625, arXiv:1405.4719); 2 pages including 1 table