Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-02-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
91 pages, submitted to "The Astrophysical Journal Suppl. Series"
Scientific paper
10.1086/589879
Type I X-ray bursts are violent stellar events that take place on the H/He-rich envelopes of accreting neutron stars. We have investigated the role played by uncertainties in nuclear processes on the nucleosynthesis accompanying these explosive phenomena. Two different approaches have been adopted, in the framework of post-processing calculations. In the first one, nuclear rates are varied individually within uncertainties. Ten different models, covering the characteristic parameter space for these stellar events, have been considered. The second, somewhat complementary approach involves a Monte Carlo code in which all nuclear rates are randomly varied within uncertainty limits simultaneously. All in all, about 50,000 post-processing calculations, with a network containing 606 nuclides (H to 113Xe) and more than 3500 nuclear processes, have been performed in this work. A brief comparison between both procedures is outlined together with an overall account of the key nuclear reactions whose uncertainties have the largest impact in our X-ray burst nucleosynthesis studies.
Iliadis Christian
Jose Jordi
Moreno Fermin
Parikh Anuj
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