Dense astrophysical plasmas

By Gilles Chabrier, F. Douchin, A. Potekhin. 2002

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We briefly examine the properties of dense plasmas characteristic of the atmospheres of neutron stars and of the interior of massive white dwarfs. These astrophysical bodies are natural laboratories for studying respectively the problem of pressure ionization of hydrogen in a strong magnetic field and the crystallization of the quantum one-component plasma at finite temperature.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Colloquium : nonlinear collective interactions in quantum plasmas with degenerate electron fluids (2010, background): “…two specific physical systems, corresponding to dense plasmas in the next generation of laser-based plasma compression (LBPC) schemes (Malkin et al., 2007), and in superdense astrophysical objects (Chabrier et al., 2002, 2006; Chabrier, 2009; Harding and Lai, 2006; Lai, 2001) (e.g. white dwarfs).”
Experimental astrophysics with high power lasers and Z pinches (2004, background): “Examples include turbulent pipe flow see, e.g., Landau and Lifshitz 1987 , and a turbulent flow past a body at high Reynolds number see Gjevik 1980 , Cantwell 1981 , and Van Dyke 1982 for excellent pictures of such flows over a broad range of Reynolds numbers .”