Screened thermonuclear reactions and predictive stellar evolution of detached double-lined eclipsing binaries

Details Screened thermonuclear reactions and predictive stellar evolution of detached double-lined eclipsing binaries Screened thermonuclear reactions and predictive stellar evolution of detached double-lined eclipsing binaries

2005-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0505020v2

Phys.Rev.C72:025803,2005

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

5 RevTex pages,no figures. Accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.72.025803

The low energy fusion cross sections of charged-particle nuclear reactions (and the respective reaction rates) in stellar plasmas are enhanced due to plasma screening effects. We study the impact of those effects on predictive stellar evolution simulations for detached double-lined eclipsing binaries. We follow the evolution of binary systems (pre-main sequence or main sequence stars) with precisely determined radii and masses from 1.1Mo to 23Mo (from their birth until their present state). The results indicate that all the discrepancies between the screened and unscreened models (in terms of luminosity, stellar radius, and effective temperature) are within the observational uncertainties. Moreover, no nucleosynthetic or compositional variation was found due to screening corrections. Therefore all thermonuclear screening effects on the charged-particle nuclear reactions that occur in the binary stars considered in this work (from their birth until their present state) can be totally disregarded. In other words, all relevant charged-particle nuclear reactions can be safely assumed to take place in a vacuum, thus simplifying and accelerating the simulation processes.

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