The Equation of State in Astrophysics

What do we understand of the properties of the dense ionised matter found in the interiors of low-mass stars and giant planets? The 147th IAU Colloquium gathered together international experts to address this question, and their answers are provided in this opportune proceedings. In this volume, reviews by world experts in plasma and dense matter physics and in stellar astrophysics cover everything from the cooling theory of white dwarfs and their accretion-induced collapse, through to the internal structure of low-mass stars and giant planets. They cover a wide range of topics related to the equation of state in dense matter. Together these articles provide an essential review of the most recent achievements in the field and give directions for future research.

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Group photograph
List of participants
Preface
Part I. Reviews
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. Alastwey
4. Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasma 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. Mochovitch and L. Segretain
7. Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection I. Mazzitelli
8. White dwarf crystallization E. García-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 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. Däppen
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
Part II. Observational Projects
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 statial GOLF project S. Turck-Chiéze
27. The DENIS survey T. Forveille
28. PRISMA, a mission to study interior and surface of stars P. Lemaire
Part III. Posters
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. Däppen
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 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. García and E. Bravo
35. Molecular opacities 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-Chiéze, P. Delbourgo-Salvador and Ch. Lagrange
41. Theoretical description of the Coulomb interaction by Padé–Jacobi approximants W. Stolzmann and T. Blöcker
42. New model sequences from the white dwarf evolution code M. Wood
43. Low temperature opacities C. Neuforge.