A Unified Equation for the Reaction Rate in Dense Matter Stars
Author(s) -
L. R. Gasques,
M. Wiescher,
Dimitrji Yakovlev,
Ricardo Alarcón,
P. L. Cole,
C. Djalali,
Fernando Umeres
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
aip conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1551-7616
pISSN - 0094-243X
DOI - 10.1063/1.2813828
Subject(s) - stars , computer science , physics , astrophysics
We analyze thermonuclear and pycnonuclear reaction rates in multi‐component dense stellar plasma. First we describe calculations of the astrophysical S‐factor at low energies using the Sao Paulo potential on the basis of the barrier penetration model. Then we present a simple phenomenological expression for a reaction rate. The expression contains several fit parameters which we adjust to reproduce the best microscopic calculations available in the literature.
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