Creation of White Dwarf Photospheres in the Laboratory

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Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21743324e&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #433.24; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We measure the Stark dominated, hydrogen line broadening in macroscopic plasmas with temperatures and electron densities typical of white dwarf photospheres. Utilizing the large X-ray flux generated by the Z Pulsed Power Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, NM, we uniformly heat a 19 cm3 cell of hydrogen gas to the relevant conditions, taking time resolved measurements of the emission spectra. The experiment will cover a wide range of white dwarf photospheric plasma conditions and compositions, testing not only theoretical white dwarf atmosphere models, but also current line broadening theories, with empirical measurements in unexplored regimes.

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