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Title

The equation of state in astrophysics : proceedings of IAU Colloquium no. 147, Saint-Malo, France, 14-18 June 1993 / edited by Gilles Chabrier and Evry Schatzman.

Author

IAU Colloquium (147th : 1993 : Saint-Malo, France)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Chabrier, Gilles.
• Schatzman, Evry L.

Description

xviii, 621 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Stars > Congresses
• Planets > Congresses
• Astrophysics > Congresses
• Equations of state > Congresses

Contents

• 1. Equations of state in stellar structure and evolution / H. M. Van Horn -- 2. Equation of state of stellar plasmas / F. J. Rogers -- 3. Statistical mechanics of quantum plasmas. Path integral formalism / A. Alastuey -- 4. Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasmas / Y. Rosenfeld -- 5. Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions / J. Isern and M. Hernanz -- 6. Crystallization of dense binary ionic mixtures. Application to white dwarf cooling theory / R. Mochkovitch and L. Segretain -- 7. Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection / I. Mazzitelli -- 8. White dwarf crystallization / E. Garcia-Berro and M. Hernanz -- 9. Gravitational collapse versus thermonuclear explosion of degenerate stellar cores / J. Isern and R. Canal -- 10. Neutron star crusts with magnetic fields / D. G. Yakovlev and A. D. Kaminker -- 11. High pressure experiments for astrophysics / P. Loubeyre.
• 12. Equation of state of dense hydrogen and the plasma phase transition; A microscopic calculational model for complex fluids / F. Perrot and C. Dharma-wardana -- 13. The equation of state of fluid hydrogen at high density / G. Chabrier -- 14. A comparative study of hydrogen equations of state / D. Saumon -- 15. Strongly coupled ionic mixtures and the H/He equation of state / H. M. DeWitt -- 16. White dwarf seismology: Influence of the constitutive physics on the period spectra / G. Fontaine and P. Brassard -- 17. Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma / W. Dappen -- 18. Transport processes in dense stellar plasmas / N. Itoh -- 19. Cataclysmic variables: structure and evolution / J.-M. Hameury -- 20. Giant planet, brown dwarf, and low-mass star interiors / W. B. Hubbard -- 21. Searches for brown dwarfs / J. Liebert -- 22. Jovian seismology / B. Mosser -- 23. EVRIS: first space experiment devoted to stellar seismology / A. Baglin.
• 24. The HIPPARCOS mission and tests for the equation of state / A. Baglin and Joao Fernandes -- 25. Ground based helioseismology: IRIS and GONG / F.-X. Schmider -- 26. The spatial GOLF project / S. Turck-Chieze -- 27. The DENIS survey / T. Forveille -- 28. PRISMA: A mission to study interior and surface of stars / P. Lemaire -- 29. Towards a helioseismic calibration of the equation of state in the solar convective envelope / S. V. Vorontsov, V. A. Baturin, D. O. Gough and W. Dappen -- 30. Thermal cyclotron and annihilation radiation in strong magnetic fields / V. G. Bezchastnov and A. D. Kaminker -- 31. Modified adiabatic approximation for a hydrogen atom moving in a magnetic field / V. G. Bezchastnov and A. Y. Potekhin -- 32. Computations of static white dwarf models: A must for asteroseismological studies / P. Brassard and G. Fontaine -- 33. The Chandrasekhar mass of a gravitating electron crystal / D. Engelhardt and I. Bues.
• 34. Coulomb corrections in the nuclear statistical equilibrium regime / D. Garcia and E. Bravo -- 35. Molecular Opacities: Application to the Giant Planets / T. Guillot, D. Gautier and G. Chabrier -- 36. On Radiative Transfer Near the Plasma Frequency at Strong Coupling / Yu. K. Kurilenkov and H. M. Van Horn -- 37. Effects of Superfluidity on Spheroidal Oscillations of Neutron Stars / Umin Lee, T. J. B. Collins, R. I. Epstein and H. M. Van Horn -- 38. Magnetic Field Decay in the Non-superfluid Regions of Neutron Star Cores / A. G. Muslimov and H. M. Van Horn -- 39. On the equation of state in Jovian seismology / J. Provost, B. Mosser and G. Chabrier -- 40. Analysis of the screening formalisms in solar and stellar conditions / H. Dzitko, S. Turck-Chieze, P. Delbourgo-Salvador and Ch. Lagrange -- 41. Theoretical Description of the Coulomb Interaction by Pade-Jacobi Approximants / W. Stolzmann and T. Blocker -- 42. New Model Sequences from the White Dwarf Evolution Code / M. Wood.
• 43. Low temperature opacities / C. Neuforge.

ISBN

0521472601

LCCN

94013960

OCLC

• 30437841
• ocm30437841

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries