Dense plasmas in astrophysics: from giant planets to neutron stars

Abstract

We briefly examine the properties of dense plasmas characteristic of the interior of giant planets and the atmospheres of neutron stars. Special attention is devoted to the equation of state of hydrogen and helium at high density and to the effect of magnetic fields on the properties of dense matter.

Invited Review, Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, Moscow June 2005; to appear in Journal of Physics A

References in corpus (14)

• Neutron Star Cooling
• Matter in Strong Magnetic Fields
• Shock Compression of Deuterium and the Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn
• Path Integral Monte Carlo Calculation of the Deuterium Hugoniot
• Molecular Dissociation in Hot, Dense Hydrogen
• Neutron star cooling
• Thermal structure and cooling of superfluid neutron stars with accreted magnetized envelopes
• Calculation of a Deuterium Double Shock Hugoniot from Ab initio Simulations
• Partially ionized hydrogen plasma in strong magnetic fields
• Monte Carlo results for the hydrogen Hugoniot
• Equation of state and opacities for hydrogen atmospheres of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields
• Modeling Pressure-Ionization of Hydrogen in the Context of Astrophysics
• Free-energy model for fluid helium at high density
• Equation of state and opacities for hydrogen atmospheres of magnetars

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