A higher-than-predicted measurement of iron opacity at solar interior temperatures

JE Bailey, T Nagayama, GP Loisel, GA Rochau… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Nearly a century ago it was recognized that radiation absorption by stellar matter controls
the internal temperature profiles within stars. Laboratory opacity measurements, however …

A new generation of Los Alamos opacity tables

J Colgan, DP Kilcrease, NH Magee… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new, publicly available set of Los Alamos OPLIB opacity tables for the
elements hydrogen through zinc. Our tables are computed using the Los Alamos ATOMIC …

The Los Alamos suite of relativistic atomic physics codes

CJ Fontes, HL Zhang, J Abdallah Jr… - Journal of Physics B …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Los Alamos suite of relativistic atomic physics codes is a robust, mature
platform that has been used to model highly charged ions in a variety of ways. The suite …

Opacity calculations for solar mixtures

G Mondet, C Blancard, P Cossé… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The OPAS opacity model has been used to calculate the radiative opacity of stellar plasmas
in local thermodynamic equilibrium. According to the recent chemical composition revision …

Hypercritical accretion, induced gravitational collapse, and binary-driven hypernovae

CL Fryer, JA Rueda, R Ruffini - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The induced gravitational collapse (IGC) paradigm has been successfully applied to the
explanation of the concomitance of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with supernovae (SNe) Ic. The …

Relativistic opacities for astrophysical applications

CJ Fontes, CL Fryer, AL Hungerford, P Hakel… - High Energy Density …, 2015 - Elsevier
We report on the use of the Los Alamos suite of relativistic atomic physics codes to generate
radiative opacities for the modeling of astrophysically relevant plasmas under local …

Domains of pulsational instability of low-frequency modes in rotating upper main sequence stars

W Szewczuk… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We determine instability domains on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram for rotating main
sequence stars with masses of 2–20 M⊙. The effects of the Coriolis force are treated wihin …

Transient space localization of electrons ejected from continuum atomic processes in hot dense plasma

P Liu, C Gao, Y Hou, J Zeng, J Yuan - Communications Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Continuum atomic processes initiated by photons and electrons occurring in a plasma are
fundamental in plasma physics, playing a key role in the determination of ionization balance …

High-energy-density physics at the national ignition facility

OA Hurricane, MC Herrmann - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
At modern laser facilities, energy densities ranging from 1 Mbar to many hundreds of
gigabars can regularly be achieved. These high-energy states of matter last for mere …

First-principles study of -shell iron and chromium opacity at stellar interior temperatures

VV Karasiev, SX Hu, NR Shaffer, G Miloshevsky - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Recently developed free-energy density functional theory (DFT)-based methodology for
optical property calculations of warm dense matter has been applied for studying L-shell …