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Equation of state and opacities for hydrogen atmospheres of strongly magnetized cooling neutron stars

A. Y. Potekhin, Yu. A. Shibanov, J. Ventura

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9803046

Abstract

We study partially ionized hydrogen plasma at temperatures T = 105.5-106.5 K and magnetic fields B = 1012-1013 G, typical of photospheres of isolated neutron stars. We construct an analytic model of the plasma free energy and derive a generalized Saha equation which is used to obtain the opacities.

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