White Dwarf Crystallization is a physical astrophysical process in which the degenerate electron core of a cooling white dwarf undergoes a phase transition from a plasma state to a crystalline lattice structure due to the increasing Coulomb interactions among ions as thermal energy diminishes.
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The Cooling of CO White Dwarfs: Influence of the Internal Chemical Distribution
M. Salaris, E. Garcı́a–Berro, M. Hernanz et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1997 · 205 citations · Full text
Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +15
Evolution of crystallizing pure C-12 white dwarfs
D. Q. Lamb, H. M. van Horn · The Astrophysical Journal · 1975 · 201 citations
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Crystallization of White Dwarfs
H. M. van Horn · The Astrophysical Journal · 1968 · 182 citations
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Cooling theory of crystallized white dwarfs
L. Ségretain, G. Chabrier, M. Hernanz et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1994 · 171 citations
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Core crystallization and pile-up in the cooling sequence of evolving white dwarfs
Nature · 2019 · 149 citations · Full text
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
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Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata
La Plata, Argentina
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Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
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