https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050224
Photoionization of the hydrogen atom in strong magnetic fields of White Dwarfs
1
Physics Department, Faculty of
Science, Naresuan University A. Muang,
Phitsanulok 65000, Thailand
2
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of
Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
3
Institute of Theoretical Physics I, Ruhr-University
Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
Received:
16
March
1998
Accepted:
14
July
1998
Published online: 15 January 1999
The photoionization cross-sections of the hydrogen atom in strong magnetic fields of magnetic White Dwarf stars were calculated with a direct numerical integration method using the Landau basis as a high field approach. The validity regime of these solutions overlap with those of the spherical symmetry and complement other recently developed methods. An important result is the relation between the density of states and the normalization for the more than one open channel regime leading to additional coupling terms not taken into account by multi channel quantum defect methods.
PACS: 32.60+i – Zeeman and Stark effects / 97.60.-s – Late stages of stellar evolution (including black holes) / 31.15.-p – Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics (excluding electron correlation calculations)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1999
