Hydrogen atoms in neutron star atmospheres: Analytical approximations for binding energies

1997/08/21 by A. Y. Potekhin, Potekhin, A. Y.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9708024

6 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX using plenum.sty and epsf.sty (included). To appear in Proc. of 172 WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Atoms and Molecules in Strong External Fields, Bad Honnef, 7-11 April 1997, ed. P. Schmelcher & W. Schweizer (New York: Plenum). Postscript version also available at http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/dtastrop.html

Abstract

Analytical approximations are constructed for binding energies of hydrogen atoms arbitrarily moving in magnetic fields 7×10¹¹ G to 2×10¹³ G, typical of magnetic neutron stars.

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