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Apart from the ideal gas the degenerate electron gas is another important state of the stellar plasma. We introduce the basic concept, some limiting cases, which can be dealt with analytically, and discuss the generalization to any degree of degeneracy.
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Kippenhahn, R., Weigert, A., Weiss, A. (2012). The Degenerate Electron Gas. In: Stellar Structure and Evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30304-3_15
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