Neutron reactions in astrophysics

R Reifarth, C Lederer, F Käppeler - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The quest for the origin of matter in the Universe had been the subject of philosophical and
theological debates over the history of mankind, but quantitative answers could be found …

[HTML][HTML] Low-energy heavy-ion reactions and the Skyrme effective interaction

PD Stevenson, MC Barton - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
The Skyrme effective interaction, with its multitude of parameterisations, along with its
implementation using the static and time-dependent density functional (TDHF) formalism …

The compactness of presupernova stellar cores

T Sukhbold, SE Woosley - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The success or failure of the neutrino-transport mechanism for producing a supernova in an
evolved massive star is known to be sensitive not only to the mass of the iron core that …

s-process production in rotating massive stars at solar and low metallicities

U Frischknecht, R Hirschi, M Pignatari… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rotation was shown to have a strong impact on the structure and light element
nucleosynthesis in massive stars. In particular, models including rotation can reproduce the …

NuGrid stellar data set. I. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z= 0.02 and Z= 0.01

M Pignatari, F Herwig, R Hirschi… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide a set of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis calculations that applies
established physics assumptions simultaneously to low-and intermediate-mass and massive …

Stellar abundances in the solar neighborhood: the Hypatia Catalog

NR Hinkel, FX Timmes, PA Young… - The Astronomical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We compile spectroscopic abundance data from 84 literature sources for 50 elements
across 3058 stars in the solar neighborhood, within 150 pc of the Sun, to produce the …

Evolution and fate of very massive stars

N Yusof, R Hirschi, G Meynet… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
There is observational evidence that supports the existence of very massive stars (VMS) in
the local universe. First, VMS (M ini≲ 320 M⊙) have been observed in the Large Magellanic …

Towards a realistic explosion landscape for binary population synthesis

RA Patton, T Sukhbold - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A crucial ingredient in population synthesis studies involving massive stars is
the determination of whether they explode or implode in the end. While the final fate of a …

Advances in the direct study of carbon burning in massive stars

G Fruet, S Courtin, M Heine, DG Jenkins, P Adsley… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The C 12+ C 12 fusion reaction plays a critical role in the evolution of massive stars and also
strongly impacts various explosive astrophysical scenarios. The presence of resonances in …

On variations of pre-supernova model properties

R Farmer, CE Fields, I Petermann… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the variation in single-star 15–30${M} _ {\odot} $, nonrotating, solar metallicity,
pre-supernova MESA models that is due to changes in the number of isotopes in a fully …