Accurate Evaluation of Fermi-Dirac Integrals and Their Derivatives for Arbitrary Degeneracy and Relativity
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Vol. 105, 407
- https://doi.org/10.1086/192322
Abstract
The equation of state of an ideal Fermi gas is expressed in terms of Fermi-Dirac integrals. We give formulae for evaluation the Fermi-Dirac integrals of orders 1/2, 3/2, and 5/2 and their derivatives in various limits of non- and extreme degeneracy and relativity. We provide tables and a Fortran subroutine for numerical evaluation of the integrals and derivatives when a limit does not apply. The functions can be evaluated to better than 1% accuracy for any temperature and density using these methods.Comment: AAS LaTeX. No FigureKeywords
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