Dr Chamel Nicolas
email: nchamel AT ulb.ac.be
phone number: +00 32 2 650 35 72
address:
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Université Libre de Bruxelles
CP 226
Boulevard du Triomphe
B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)
office:
Campus de la Plaine, Building NO, 4th floor, office 2.N4.202
Current positions
Senior research associate F.R.S.-FNRS and
professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Member of the Alumni College of the Royal Academy of Belgium,
Member of the International Astronomical
Union.
Research interests
My research interests include:
- Nuclear energy density functional theory and astrophysical applications
- Equation of state of dense matter in extreme astrophysical environments
like white dwarfs, supernova cores, and neutron stars
- Crystallography of dense multicomponent Coulomb plasmas
- Deep crustal heating in accreted neutron stars
- Role of high magnetic fields on white dwarfs and neutron stars
- Application of the band theory of solids to free neutrons in neutron-star crusts
- Relativistic and non-relativistic hydrodynamics of
superfluid mixtures
- Superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron stars: microscopic description and astrophysical signatures (e.g. pulsar glitches)
BRUSLIB
Unified equations of state of catalysed matter for application to
nonaccreting and unmagnetised cold neutron stars:
Scientific publications
List of publications
Some reviews:
Entrainment in Superfluid Neutron Star Crusts: Hydrodynamic Description and Microscopic Origin, J. Low. Temp. Phys. 189, 328 (2017) - special issue "Pairing and Condensation in Fermionic Systems", Guest Editor: Eckhard Krotscheck
Superfluidity and Superconductivity in Neutron Stars, J. Astrophys. Astr. 38, 43 (2017) - special issue in honor of Prof. Srinivasan
Brussels-Montreal Nuclear Energy Density
Functionals, from Atomic Masses to Neutron Stars , Acta Phys. Pol. B 46,
349 (2015)
On the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 22, 1330018 (2013)
Chasing Neutron Stars, Histoire de la recherche contemporaine, Tome I-N2, 160 (2012).
Physics of
Neutron Star crusts, Living Rev. Relativity 11, 10 (2008)
- "Recent Developments in the Modelling of Neutron-Star Crusts" pdf
given at the working group meeting of the COST NewCompStar action, Catania, Sicily, 7-9 November 2017.
- "Crystallography of Neutron-Star Crusts" pdf
given at the Annual NewCompStar Conference 2017, Warsaw, Poland, 23-31 March 2017.
- "Superfluidity in Neutron Star Crusts" pdf
given at the workshop Superfluidity and Pairing Phenomena: from Cold Atomic Gases to Neutron Stars, ECT*, Trento,
Italy, 20-24 March 2017
- "Structure and Equation of State of Neutron-Star Crusts" pdf
given at the conference Compact Stars and Gravitational Waves, Kyoto, Japan, 31 October-4 November 2016.
- "Pairing in Neutron-Star Crusts within the Nuclear Energy Density Functional
Theory" pdf given at
the workshop Physics at the Falls: Pairing Phenomena from Neutron Stars to
Cold Gases, Buffalo, USA, 23-25 March 2016.
- "Electron captures and neutron emissions in magnetic white dwarfs and
magnetars" pdf given
at the 34th Rila Workshop on Nuclear Theory, Bulgaria, 21-27 June
2015.
- "Properties of Neutron Star Crusts with Accurately Calibrated Nuclear
Energy Density Functionals" pdf given at the
Annual NewCompStar Conference 2015, Budapest, Hungary, 15-19 June
2015.
- "Unified Equations of State for Neutron Stars and Magnetars" pdf given at the
16th RAGtime workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-19 October
2014.
- "Recent Developments in the Modelling of Neutron-Star Crusts" pdf video given at the
INT Workshop: Binary Neutron Star Coalescence as a Fundamental Physics
Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear Theory, Seattle, Washington, USA,
14-18 July 2014
- "Vela Pulsar Glitches and Nuclear Superfluidity" pdf given at the
conference The Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to
Death, Florence, Italy, 24-28 March 2014.
- "Skyrme nuclear energy density functionals from atomic nuclei to neutron
stars" pdf given at
KITPC workshop: From Nucleon Structure to Nuclear Structure and Compact
Astrophysical objects, Beijing, China, 16-30 June 2012.
- "Nuclear energy density functionals for astrophysics: from BSk16 to
BSk21" pdf given at
the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics Long-term Workshop:
Dynamics and Correlations in Exotic Nuclei, Kyoto, Japan, 16-28
September 2011.
- "Neutron-star matter with the energy density functional theory" pdf given at the
Gordon Research Conference, New London, New Hampshire, USA, 12-17
June 2011.
- "Superfluidity in neutron star crusts" pdf video
given at the INT Program: Fermions from Cold Atoms to Neutron Stars:
Benchmarking the Many-Body Problem, Institute of Nuclear Theory,
Seattle, Washington, USA, 14 March-20 May 2011
- "Generalized equation of state for superfluid neutron stars" pdf given at the
CoCoNuT Meeting 2010, Valencia, Spain, 15-17 September 2010.
- "A historical perspective on the discovery of neutron stars" pdf given at the Institute of Nuclear Physics
in Orsay, France, 28 June 2010.
- "Superfluid models of neutron stars" pdf given at the
workshop on the Complex Physics of Compact Stars, in Ladek Zdroj,
Poland, 24-29 February 2008.
- "Neutron star crusts beyond the Wigner-Seitz approximation" pdf given at the
International Symposium on Exotic States of Nuclear Matter,
Catania, Italy, 11-15 June 2007.
PHYS-F201:
Thermodynamics
PHYS-F484: Gravitational Waves
Public lectures in
Astrophysics at Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Last updated on 21 November 2017