In astrophysics, Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation is an initial value ordinary differential equation introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. An introduction to the study of stellar structure. Vol. 2. Chapter 11 Courier Corporation, 1958. in his study of the gravitational potential of completely degenerate white dwarf stars. The equation reads as
