The Equation of State in Astrophysics

Group photograph; List of participants; Preface; Part I. Reviews: 1. Equations of state in stellar structure and evolution H. M. Van Horn; 2. Equation of state of stellar plasmas F. J. Rogers; 3. Statistical mechanics of quantum plasmas. Path integral formalism A. Alastwey; 4. Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasma Y. Rosenfeld; 5. Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions J. Isern and M. Hernanz; 6. Crystallization of dense binary ionic mixtures. Application to white dwarf cooling theory R. Mochovitch and L. Segretain; 7. Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection I. Mazzitelli; 8. White dwarf crystallization E. Garcia-Berro and M. Hernanz; 9. Gravitational collapse versus thermonuclear explosion of degenerate stellar cores J. Isern and R. Canal; 10. Neutron star crusts with magnetic fields D. G. Yakovlev and A. D. Kaminker; 11. High pressure experiments for astrophysics P. Loubeyre; 12. Equation of state of dense hydrogen and the plasma phase transition F. Perrot and C. Dharma-wardana; 13. The equation of state of fluid hydrogen at high density G. Chabrier; 14. A comparative study of hydrogen equations of state D. Saumon; 15. Strongly coupled ionic mixtures and the H/He equation of state H. M. DeWitt; 16. White dwarf seismology: Influence of the constitutive physics on the period spectra G. Fontaine and P. Brassard; 17. Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma W. Daeppen; 18. Transport processes in dense stellar plasmas N. Itoh; 19. Cataclysmic variables: structure and evolution J.-M. Hameury; 20. Giant planet, brown dwarf, and low-mass star interiors W. B. Hubbard; 21. Searches for brown dwarfs J. Liebert; 22. Jovian seismology B. Mosser; Part II. Observational Projects: 23. EVRIS: first space experiment devoted to stellar seismology A. Baglin; 24. The HIPPARCOS mission and tests for the equation of state A. Baglin and Joao Fernandes; 25. Ground based helioseismology: IRIS and GONG F.-X. Schmider; 26. The statial GOLF project S. Turck-Chieze; 27. The DENIS survey T. Forveille; 28. PRISMA: a mission to study interior and surface of stars P. Lemaire; Part III. Posters: 29. Towards a helioseismic calibration of the equation of state in the solar convective envelope S. V. Vorontsov, V. A. Baturin, D. O. Gough and W. Daeppen; 30. Thermal cyclotron and annihilation radiation in strong magnetic fields V. G. Bezchastnov and A. D. Kaminker; 31. Modified adiabatic approximation for a hydrogen atom moving in a magnetic field V. G. Bezchastnov and A. Y. Potekhin; 32. Computations of static white dwarf models P. Brassard and G. Fontaine; 33. The Chandrasekhar mass of a gravitating electron crystal D. Engelhardt and I. Bues; 34. Coulomb corrections in the nuclear statistical equilibrium regime D. Garcia and E. Bravo; 35. Molecular opacities T. Guillot, D. Gautier and G. Chabrier; 36. On radiative transfer near the plasma frequency at strong coupling Yu. K. Kurilenkov and H. M. Van Horn; 37. Effects of superfluidity on spheroidal oscillations of neutron stars Umin Lee, T. J. B. Collins, R. I. Epstein and H. M. Van Horn; 38. Magnetic field decay in the non-superfluid regions of neutron star cores A. G. Muslimov and H. M. Van Horn; 39. On the equation of state in Jovian seismology J. Provost, B. Mosser and G. Chabrier; 40. Analysis of the screening formalisms in solar and stellar conditions H. Dzitko, S. Turck-Chieze, P. Delbourgo-Salvador and Ch. Lagrange; 41. Theoretical description of the Coulomb interaction by Pade-Jacobi approximants W. Stolzmann and T. Bloecker; 42. New model sequences from the white dwarf evolution code M. Wood; 43. Low temperature opacities C. Neuforge.