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Paper: Improved Diffusion Coefficients for Stellar Plasmas
Volume: 481, 6th Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects
Page: 221
Authors: Brassard, P.; Fontaine, G.
Abstract: We are currently working on the fourth generation of our codes for building evolutionary and static models of hot subdwarf and white dwarf stars. One of the improvements of these codes consists in an update of all the microphysics involved in the computations. As part of our efforts, we have taken a look at possible improvements for the diffusion coefficients. Since the publication of the widely used diffusion coefficients of Paquette et al. (1986), the number-crunching power of computers has immensely increased, allowing more accurate computations of the triple collision integrals. We have thus produced new tables of diffusion coefficients with higher accuracy and higher resolution than before, of general use in stellar astrophysics.
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