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Upgrading the MHD Equation of State to Include Relativistic Electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Zhigang Gong
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA90089, U.S.A.
Werner Däppen
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA90089, U.S.A.

Abstract

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So far, the effect of relativistic electrons has not been included in the Mihalas-Däppen-Hummer (Hummer & Mihalas 1988; Mihalas, Däppen, & Hummer 1988; Däppen et al. 1988; hereinafter MHD) equation of state, although degeneracy was taken into account. Following the findings about the detectability of the relativistic effect in helioseismological data of the solar center (Elliot & Kosovichev 1998; hereinafter EK98), we have upgraded the MHD equation of state to include relativistic degenerate electrons. Our numerical calculation confirms the result of EK98.

Type
Part 5. Theoretical Models of Classical Pulsating Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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