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Using path-integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations, we have calculated energy of a crystal composed of atomic nuclei and uniform incompressible electron background in the temperature and density range, covering fully ionized layers of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 D. A. Baiko , A. I. Chugunov

We study the effect of having a finite temperature on the equation of state and structure of a white dwarf. In order to keep the treatment as general as possible we carry on our discussion for ideal quantum gases obeying to both the…

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The equilibrium configuration and the radial stability of white dwarfs composed of charged perfect fluid are investigated. These cases are analyzed through the results obtained from the solution of the hydrostatic equilibrium equation. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-21 G. A. Carvalho , José D. V. Arbañil , R. M. Marinho , M. Malheiro

This paper reviews the physics of stars, the type, structure, evolution and stability. Simple thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are used to show the inner working of white dwarf and neutron stars. The major concentration of the paper…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Anuj Chaudhri

White dwarfs can be used as galactic chronometers and, therefore, provide important information about galactic evolution if good theoretical models of their cooling are available. Consequently, it is natural to wonder if all the sources or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 J. Isern , R. Mochkovitch , E. García--Berro , Margarita Hernanz

From a minimum of total energy of celestial bodies, their basic parameters are obtained. The steady-state values of the mass, radius, and temperature of stars and white dwarfs, as well as masses of pulsars are calculated. The luminosity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Vasiliev

White dwarfs are almost completely degenerate objects that cannot obtain energy from thermonuclear sources, so their evolution is just a gravothermal cooling process. Recent improvements in the accuracy and precision of the luminosity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-17 J. Isern , L. Althaus , S. Catalan , A. Corsico , E. Garcia-Berro , M. Salaris , S. Torres

Spacetimes with a thin shell offer a framework where both the dynamical stability and the thermodynamical stability of the matter comprising the shell can be consistently studied. In the present work, we consider the dynamical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Ernesto Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Miguel Peñafiel

Reliable modeling of the atmospheres of cool white dwarfs is crucial for understanding the atmospheric evolution of these stars and for accurate white dwarfs cosmochronology. Over the last decade {\it ab initio} modeling entered many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Piotr M. Kowalski

White dwarfs, one of the compact objects in the universe, play a crucial role in astrophysical research and provide a platform for exploring nuclear physics. In this work, we extend the relativistic mean field approach by using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Ling-Jun Guo , Yao Ma , Yong-Liang Ma , Ruo-Xi Wu , Yue-Liang Wu

We calculate the Casimir energy and entropy for two spheres described by the perfect metal model, plasma model, and Drude model in the large separation limit. We obtain nonmonotonic behavior of the Helmholtz free energy with separation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez

The evolution of white dwarfs is a cooling process that depends on the energy stored in the core and on the way in which it is transferred through the envelope. In this paper we show that despite some (erroneous) claims, the redistribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Isern , E. Garcia-Berro , M. Hernanz , G. Chabrier

We present new cooling sequences, color-magnitude diagrams, and color-color diagrams for cool white dwarfs with pure hydrogen atmospheres down to an effective temperature $\te=1500$ K. We include a more detailed treatment of the physics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gilles Chabrier , Pierre Brassard , Gilles Fontaine , Didier Saumon

We investigate the structure and stability against radial oscillations, pycnonuclear reactions, and inverse $\beta$-decay of hot white dwarfs. We regard that the fluid matter is made up for nucleons and electrons confined in a Wigner-Seitz…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Sílvia P. Nunes , José D. V. Arbañil , Manuel Malheiro

We present an accurate analytic approximation for the energy of a quantum one-component Coulomb liquid of ions in a uniform electron background which has been recently calculated from first principles (Baiko 2019). The approximation enables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-19 D. A. Baiko , D. G. Yakovlev

Starting from the Helmholtz free energy we calculate analytically first- and second-order derivatives, as internal energy and specific heats, for the ideal system and the exchange and correlation interactions covering a broad range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Stolzmann , T. Bloecker

This work mainly focuses on the nonlinear Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg theory and its applications from various aspects. Firstly, thermodynamic variables are analytically determined via Smarr formula for a four dimensional spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Huriye Gürsel , Mert Mangut , Erdem Sucu

The evolution of white dwarfs is a simple gravothermal process. This means that their luminosity function, i.e. the number of white dwarfs per unit bolometric magnitude and unit volume as a function of bolometric magnitude, is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Isern , A. Artigas , E. Garcia-Berro

White dwarfs and neutron stars are stellar objects with masses comparable to that of our sun. However, as the endpoint stages of stellar evolution, these objects do not sustain any thermonuclear burning and therefore can no longer support…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shmuel Balberg , Stuart L. Shapiro

We develop an analytical equation of state (EOS) for magnetized fully ionized plasmas, which cover a wide range of temperatures and densities, from low-density classical plasmas to relativistic, quantum plasma conditions. This EOS directly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier
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