Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Group photograph
- List of participants
- Preface
- Reviews
- 1 Equations of state in stellar structure and evolution
- 2 Equation of state of stellar plasmas
- 3 Statistical mechanics of quantum plasmas. Path integral formalism
- 4 Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasmas
- 5 Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions
- 6 Crystallization of dense binary ionic mixtures. Application to white dwarf cooling theory
- 7 Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection
- 8 White dwarf crystallization
- 9 Gravitational collapse versus thermonuclear explosion of degenerate stellar cores
- 10 Neutron star crusts with magnetic fields
- 11 High pressure experiments for astrophysics
- 12 Equation of state of dense hydrogen and the plasma phase transition; A microscopic calculational model for complex fluids
- 13 The equation of state of fluid hydrogen at high density
- 14 A comparative study of hydrogen equations of state
- 15 Strongly coupled ionic mixtures and the H/He equation of state
- 16 White dwarf seismology: Influence of the constitutive physics on the period spectra
- 17 Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma
- 18 Transport processes in dense stellar plasmas
- 19 Cataclysmic variables: structure and evolution
- 20 Giant planet, brown dwarf, and low-mass star interiors
- 21 Searches for brown dwarfs
- 22 Jovian seismology
- Observational projects
- Posters
5 - Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Group photograph
- List of participants
- Preface
- Reviews
- 1 Equations of state in stellar structure and evolution
- 2 Equation of state of stellar plasmas
- 3 Statistical mechanics of quantum plasmas. Path integral formalism
- 4 Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasmas
- 5 Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions
- 6 Crystallization of dense binary ionic mixtures. Application to white dwarf cooling theory
- 7 Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection
- 8 White dwarf crystallization
- 9 Gravitational collapse versus thermonuclear explosion of degenerate stellar cores
- 10 Neutron star crusts with magnetic fields
- 11 High pressure experiments for astrophysics
- 12 Equation of state of dense hydrogen and the plasma phase transition; A microscopic calculational model for complex fluids
- 13 The equation of state of fluid hydrogen at high density
- 14 A comparative study of hydrogen equations of state
- 15 Strongly coupled ionic mixtures and the H/He equation of state
- 16 White dwarf seismology: Influence of the constitutive physics on the period spectra
- 17 Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma
- 18 Transport processes in dense stellar plasmas
- 19 Cataclysmic variables: structure and evolution
- 20 Giant planet, brown dwarf, and low-mass star interiors
- 21 Searches for brown dwarfs
- 22 Jovian seismology
- Observational projects
- Posters
Summary
Abstract
The rate of nuclear reactions depends on the influence of the surrounding particles that compose the plasma. At high densities the situation is far from being satisfactory and the influence of electron polarization has not been completely elucidated. In particular, it is shown that the possibility of an accretion induced collapse of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf instead of a supernova explosion completely depends on the screening factors and pycnonuclear rates that are adopted. Similarly, the possibility of detecting isolated neutron stars that accrete matter from the interstellar medium depends on the adopted pycnonuclear rates. Low rates allow the formation of a metastable layer that can release energy explosively and produce aγ-ray burst. Nevertheless, current rates seem to prevent such a situation.
Le taux des réactions nucléaires dépend de l'influence exercée par les particules voisines qui composent le plasma. A haute densité, la situation est loin d'être satisfaisante et l'influence de la polarization electronique n'est pas sufisamment claire. En particulier, on montre que la possibilité d'obtenir un collapse non explosif d'une naine blanche de carbone oxygène dépend des facteurs d'écrantage et des taux pycnonucléaires adoptés. Egalement, la possibilité de détecter des étoiles à neutrons isolées dépend des taux pycnonucléaires adoptés. Des petites valeurs favorisent la formation d'une couche metastable qui peut libérer de l'energie explosivement et produire une éruption gamma. Quand-même, les taux actuels semblent empêcher cette situation.
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- The Equation of State in AstrophysicsIAU Colloquium 147, pp. 106 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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