The Rosseland Mean Free-Free Gaunt Factor of the Dense High-Temperature Stellar Plasma
Abstract
The Rosseland mean free-free Gaunt factor of the dense high-temperature stellar plasma is calculated based on both the accurate relativistic cross section and Sommerfeld's exact nonrelativistic cross section. A wide range of electron degeneracy is accurately taken into account. Comparison of the resulting free-free opacity with the electron conduction opacity is made.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1991ApJ...382..636I
- Keywords:
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- Computational Astrophysics;
- Dense Plasmas;
- Stellar Winds;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Opacity;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Stellar Temperature;
- Astrophysics;
- ATOMIC PROCESSES;
- DENSE MATTER;
- OPACITIES;
- PLASMAS