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Phase-change materials (PCMs) such as Ge-Sb-Te alloys are widely used in non-volatile memory applications due to their rapid and reversible switching between amorphous and crystalline states. However, their functional properties are…

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This work introduces ChemPlasKin, a freely accessible solver optimized for zero-dimensional (0D) simulations of chemical kinetics of neutral gas in non-equilibrium plasma environments. By integrating the electron Boltzmann equation solver,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Xiao Shao , Deanna A. Lacoste , Hong G. Im

Clusters of stars are key objects for the study of the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Galaxy and its neighbors. In particular chemical composition is obtained from different kinds of stars (hot main-sequence stars, cool…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Sandro Villanova , Giovanni Carraro , Ivo Saviane

Tests of big bang nucleosynthesis and early universe cosmology require precision measurements for helium abundance determinations. However, efforts to determine the primordial helium abundance via observations of metal poor H II regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Erik Aver , Keith A. Olive , Evan D. Skillman

Chemical abundances in the X-ray halos (also known as the intracluster medium, ICM) of clusters and groups of galaxies can be measured via prominent emission line features in their X-ray spectra. Elemental abundances are footprints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Junjie Mao , J. de Plaa , J. S. Kaastra , Ciro Pinto , Liyi Gu , F. Mernier , Hong-Liang Yan , Yu-Ying Zhang , H. Akamatsu

Chemical tagging is a central pursuit of galactic archaeology, but requires sufficiently discriminative abundances to uniquely identify sites of star formation. This task is complicated by intrinsic scatter among conatal stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-28 Jennifer Mead , Rebeca De La Garza , Melissa Ness

The equation of state with light clusters for nuclear and stellar matter is determined using chemical equilibrium constants evaluated from the analysis of the recently published (Xe$+$Sn) heavy ion data, corresponding to three reactions…

We describe the implementation of a new approach to the numerical evaluation of the effects of non-cold relics on the evolution of cosmological perturbations. The Boltzmann hierarchies used to compute the contributions of these relics to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Nanoom Lee , José Luis Bernal , Sven Günther , Lingyuan Ji , Marc Kamionkowski

We present high-precision chemical abundances for 25 FGK-type stars hosting exoplanets observed in JWST Cycle 3 programs and all GTO and DDT programs from Cycles 1-3, based on high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio optical spectra from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Qinghui Sun , Xianyu Tan , Gordon , Yip , Zitao Lin , Fan Liu , Sharon Xuesong Wang , Zhengduo Li

A novel approach is presented for the solution of instantaneous chemical equilibrium problems. The chemical equilibrium can be considered, due to its intrinsically local character, as a mapping of the three-dimensional parameter space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Asensio Ramos , H. Socas-Navarro

Computing equilibrium concentrations of molecular complexes is generally analytically intractable and requires numerical approaches. In this work we focus on the polymer-monomer level, where indivisible molecules (monomers) combine to form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Hamidreza Akef , Minki Hhan , David Soloveichik

The current and planned high-resolution, high-multiplexity stellar spectroscopic surveys, as well as the swelling amount of under-utilized data present in public archives have led to an increasing number of efforts to automate the crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 L. Sbordone , E. Caffau , P. Bonifacio , S. Duffau

With the advent of large spectroscopic surveys the amount of high quality chemo-dynamical data in the Milky Way (MW) increased tremendously. Accurately and correctly capturing and explaining the detailed features in the high-quality…

This paper introduces a new platform to accelerate the modeling of complex aerothermochemical interactions in new turbomachines, turbo-reactors, to decarbonise chemical processes. While previous work has aerothermally demonstrated the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dylan Rubini , Budimir Rosic

We introduce a new thermochemical kinetics and photochemical model. We use high-temperature bidirectional reaction rates for important H, C, O and N reactions (most importantly for CH$_4$ to CO interconversion), allowing us to attain…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael R Line , Gautam Vasisht , Pin Chen , D. Angerhausen , Yuk. L. Yung

We describe the 2017 release of the spectral synthesis code Cloudy. A major development since the previous release has been exporting the atomic data into external data files. This greatly simplifies updates and maintenance of the data.…

The goal of the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is to constrain key Galactic dynamic and chemical evolution parameters by the construction and analysis of a large, comprehensive, uniform data set of infrared…

The chemistry of H2O, CO and other small molecular species in an isolated pre-stellar core, L1544, has been assessed in the context of a comprehensive gas-grain chemical model, coupled to an empirically constrained physical/dynamical model.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Jonathan Rawlings , Eric Keto , Paola Caselli

Due to strong irradiation, hot rocky exoplanets are able to sustain lava oceans. Direct interaction between these oceans and overlying atmospheres can provide insight into planetary interiors. In order to fully understand how the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Christiaan P. A. van Buchem , Mantas Zilinskas , Yamila Miguel , Wim van Westrenen

Coupled nonlinear system of reaction-diffusion equations describing multi-component (species) interactions with heterogeneous coefficients is considered. Finite volume method based approximation for the space is used to construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Maria Vasilyeva , Alexey Sadovski , D. Palaniappan