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Pulsar PSR B0943+10 as an isotropic Vaidya-Tikekar type compact star : A comprehensive study

In this paper, we have constructed a model for well behaved isotropic compact star in the presence of charged perfect fluid, by considering a static and spherically symmetric metric in Schwarzschild's canonical coordinate system. To put the resulting differential equations into a closed system, we have employed the Vaidya & Tikekar (J. Astrophys. Astron. 3:325, 1982) form of the metric potential grr. The resulting energy-momentum components, i.e., energy density and pressure contain six constants; two of these are determined through the junction condition (matching the interior with the exterior Schwarzschild solution) and by the property of vanishing pressure on the boundary. The remaining constants are constrained by requirements of a real compact star. The physical acceptability of our model is tested using the data of the pulsar PSR B0943+10. Using graphical analysis and tabular information we have shown that our model obeys all the physical requirements. The stability of this model is evaluated using the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation, the adiabatic index and the Harrison-Zeldovich-Novikov Criterion and it has passed the evaluation.