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Electron Captures and Stability of White Dwarfs
N. Chamel, L. Perot, A. F. Fantina +4
Electron captures by atomic nuclei in dense matter are among the most important processes governing the late evolution of stars, limiting in particular the stability of white dwarf…
On the maximum mass of magnetised white dwarfs
D. Chatterjee, A. F. Fantina, N. Chamel +2
We develop a detailed and self-consistent numerical model for extremely-magnetised white dwarfs, which have been proposed as progenitors of overluminous Type Ia supernovae. This mo…
Heat capacity of low density neutron matter: from quantum to classical regimes
A. Pastore, N. Chamel, J. Margueron
The heat capacity of neutron matter is studied over the range of densities and temperatures prevailing in neutron-star crusts, allowing for the transition to a superfluid phase at…
Analytical representations of unified equations of state for neutron-star matter
A. Y. Potekhin, A. F. Fantina, N. Chamel +2
Context. A unified equation of state (EoS) should describe the crust and the core of a neutron star using the same physical model. The Brussels-Montreal group has recently derived…
Stability of super-Chandrasekhar magnetic white dwarfs
N. Chamel, A. F. Fantina, P. J. Davis
It has been recently proposed that very massive white dwarfs endowed with strongly quantizing magnetic fields might be the progenitors of overluminous type Ia supernovae like SN 20…
The decompression of the outer neutron star crust and r-process nucleosynthesis
S. Goriely, N. Chamel, H. -T. Janka +1
The rapid neutron-capture process, or r-process, is known to be fundamental for explaining the origin of approximately half of the A>60 stable nuclei observed in nature. In recent…