Vol. 7 No. 2 (2023)
Research Articles

A Role for Bose-Einstein Condensation in Astrophysics

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  • Barry W. Ninham,
  • Iver Brevik,
  • Oleksandr I. Malyi,
  • Mathias Boström
Barry W. Ninham
Department of Materials Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Iver Brevik
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Oleksandr I. Malyi
Centre of Excellence ENSEMBLE3 Sp. z o. o., Wolczynska Str. 133, 01-919, Warsaw, Poland
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Mathias Boström
Centre of Excellence ENSEMBLE3 Sp. z o. o., Wolczynska Str. 133, 01-919, Warsaw, Poland
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/Substantia-2091

Published 2023-06-05

Keywords

  • Bose-Einstein condensate,
  • Charged Bose gas,
  • Astrophysical Chemistry

How to Cite

Ninham, B. W., Brevik, I., Malyi, O. I., & Boström, M. (2023). A Role for Bose-Einstein Condensation in Astrophysics. Substantia, 7(2), 35–39. https://doi.org/10.36253/Substantia-2091

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Abstract

We revive a 60-year-old idea that might explain a remarkable new observation of a periodic low-frequency radio emission from a source at galactic distances (GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3). It derives from the observation that a high-density high-temperature charged boson plasma is a superconducting superfluid with a Meissner effect.

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