asymptotic giant branch stars. At low energies, the cross section is dominated by the 1/2+
6.356 MeV subthreshold resonance in O 17 whose contribution at stellar temperatures is
uncertain by a factor of 10. In this work, we performed the most precise determination of the
low-energy astrophysical S factor using the indirect asymptotic normalization (ANC)
technique. The α-particle ANC for the subthreshold state has been measured using the sub …