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Halide perovskites have been extensively studied as materials of interest for optoelectronic applications. There is a major emphasis on ways to tailor the stability, defect behavior, electronic band structure, and optical absorption in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-29 Jiaqi Yang , Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi

The calculation of line widths constitutes theoretical and computational challenges in the calculation of opacities of hot dense plasmas. Opacity models use line broadening approximations that are untested at stellar interior conditions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 M. Krief , A. Feigel , D. Gazit

We analyze the low energy NN interaction by confronting statistical vs systematic uncertainties. This is carried out with the help of model potentials fitted to the Granada-2013 database where a statistically meaningful partial wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-15 R. Navarro Perez , J. E. Amaro , E. Ruiz Arriola

Many authors have used one-component plasma simulations in discussing the role of ion-ion correlations in reducing neutrino opacities during the collapse phase of a supernova. In a multicomponent plasma in which constituent ions have even a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-25 R. F. Sawyer

Our recent re-analysis of the solar photospheric spectra with non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) models resulted in higher metal abundances compared to previous works. When applying the new chemical abundances to Standard Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Manuel A. Bautista , Maria Bergemann , Helena Carvajal Gallego , Sébastien Gamrath , Patrick Palmeri , Pascal Quinet

The ejecta from binary neutron star mergers, which powers its associated kilonova, can inform us about source properties, merger dynamics, and the dense nuclear matter equation of state. While now in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Amelia Henkel , Francois Foucart , Selah Melfor , Samaya Nissanke , Alexandra Wernersson , Uddipta Bhardwaj

A method to analyze optical transitions is developed by combining the Kubo-Greenwood formula with the unfolding method to construct an unfolded electronic band structure with optical transition weights, which allows us to investigate how…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-31 Yung-Ting Lee , Chi-Cheng Lee , Masahiro Fukuda , Taisuke Ozaki

Materials with bespoke properties have long been identified by computational searches, and their experimental realisation is now coming within reach through autonomous laboratories. Scattering experiments are central to verifying the atomic…

Accurate atomic data are essential for opacity calculations and for abundance analyses of the Sun and other stars. The aim of this work is to provide accurate and extensive results of energy levels and transition data for C I - IV. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 W. Li , A. M. Amarsi , A. Papoulia , J. Ekman , P. Jönsson

The energy spectra of light-mass kaonic nuclei were investigated using the theoretical framework of the $0s$-orbital model with zero-range $\bar{K} N$ and $\bar{K}\bar{K}$ interactions of effective single-channel real potentials. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

We combine high redshift Type Ia supernovae from the first 3 years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) with other supernova (SN) samples, primarily at lower redshifts, to form a high-quality joint sample of 472 SNe (123 low-$z$, 93 SDSS,…

We present a new, computationally efficient, energy-integrated approximation for neutrino effects in hot and dense astrophysical environments such as supernova cores and compact binary mergers and their remnants. Our new method, termed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Ricard Ardevol-Pulpillo , H. -Thomas Janka , Oliver Just , Andreas Bauswein

The Sun is the most studied of all stars, and thus constitutes a benchmark for stellar models. However, our vision of the Sun is still incomplete, as illustrated by the current debate on its chemical composition. The problem reaches far…

We attempt to produce low temperature opacity data incorporating the effects of varied abundances of the elements carbon and nitrogen. For our temperature range of interest, molecules represent the dominant opacity source. Our dataset…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael T. Lederer , Bernhard Aringer

An extended Designed regression analysis of experimental data on density and refractive indices of several classes of ionic liquids yielded statistically averaged atomic volumes and polarizabilities of the constituting atoms. These values…

In the context of the INFN project PANDORA_Gr3 (Plasma for Astrophysics, Nuclear Decays Observation and Radiation for Archaeometry) and of multi-messenger astronomy, we propose a feasibility study for in-laboratory plasma's opacity…

The characteristic rapid rise and decline at optical wavelengths of a kilonova is the product of the low ejecta mass ($\lesssim 0.05 M_\odot$) and high ejecta velocity ($\gtrsim 0.1$c). We show that, even at very early times ($\lesssim 2$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Daniel Brethauer , Daniel Kasen , Raffaella Margutti , Ryan Chornock

In the last decade, the use of Machine and Deep Learning (MDL) methods in Condensed Matter physics has seen a steep increase in the number of problems tackled and methods employed. A number of distinct MDL approaches have been employed in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Edoardo Di Napoli , Xinzhe Wu , Thomas Bornhake , Piotr M. Kowalski

Opacity is a property of many plasmas, and it is normally expected that if an emission line in a plasma becomes optically thick, its intensity ratio to that of another transition that remains optically thin should decrease. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 F. P. Keenan , J. G. Doyle , M. S. Madjarska , S. J. Rose , L. A. Bowler , J. Britton , L. McCrink , M. Mathioudakis

The defect chemistry and thermal oxidation of lanthanide (Ln) incorporated-UO2 are critical for understanding and predicting their behavior as enhanced fuels, mixed oxide (MOX) fuels, spent nuclear fuels (SNF), and particles for safeguard…