SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEM 2 HW 3 NOTE: I have included the H- ion in my calculations, which is a sink for free electrons; thus the fractional electron contribution is negative! You are NOT being asked to include the H- ion, so you can ignore it in Table 3. Since, at T=6000, the abundance of the H- ion is roughly 10 orders of magnitude below that of HI, the effects are neglgible... however, my numbers may be *very slightly* different than yours because of my inclusion of the H- ion. Table 1. Gas Constraint Properties X = 0.71 assumed hydrogen mass fraction Y = 0.27 assumed helium mass fraction Z = 0.02 assumed metal mass fraction Pgas = 100. assumed gas pressure T = 6.0000E+03 assumed temperature alpha_H = 0.912016 abundance fraction of H alpha_He = 0.087337 abundance fraction of He alpha_Ca = 0.000646 abundance fraction of Ca ntot = 1.2072E+14 total particle number density Table 2. Equilibrium Gas Quantities nN = 1.1996E+14 number density of nuclear matter ne = 7.5754E+11 number density of free electrons muN = 1.2947E+00 mean mol weight of nuclear matter mue = 2.2235E+02 mean mol weight of free electrons mutot = 1.2872E+00 total mean mol weight rhoN = 2.5790E-10 mass density of nuclear matter rhoe = 6.9007E-16 mass density of free electrons rhotot = 2.5790E-10 total mass density from densities Pe = 6.2754E-01 electron pressure Pe/Ptot = 6.2754E-03 ratio of electron to total pressure Table 3. Ionization Conditions In below table "density" is the number density [cm^-3] Hydrogen H HI- HI HII -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- density 1.0940E+14 7.9110E+04 1.0879E+14 6.1195E+11 ion frac 7.2310E-10 9.9441E-01 5.5935E-03 frac ne -1.0443E-07 0.0000E+00 8.0780E-01 log10(Phi) 2.1018E+01 9.6295E+00 ... log10(U) 0.0000E+00 3.0075E-01 0.0000E+00 -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Helium He HeI HeII HeIII -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- density 1.0477E+13 1.0477E+13 1.3895E+02 4.0739E-35 ion frac 1.0000E+00 1.3263E-11 3.8885E-48 frac ne 0.0000E+00 1.8342E-10 1.0756E-46 log10(Phi) 1.0020E+00 -2.4653E+01 ... log10(U) 0.0000E+00 3.0100E-01 0.0000E+00 -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Calcium Ca CaI CaII CaIII -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- density 7.7505E+10 1.8228E+06 6.8446E+10 9.0575E+09 ion frac 2.3519E-05 8.8311E-01 1.1686E-01 frac ne 0.0000E+00 9.0353E-02 2.3913E-02 log10(Phi) 1.6454E+01 1.1001E+01 ... log10(U) 1.4230E-01 3.7942E-01 0.0000E+00 -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------