Essentials of nucleosynthesis and theoretical nuclear astrophysics /

Studies in nucleosynthesis and nuclear astrophysics are highly interdisciplinary, encompassing such fields as nuclear physics, stellar structure and evolution, hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, differential equations for following isotopic abundance changes in stellar plasmas and in the interstellar m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rauscher, Thomas, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
AAS-IOP astronomy. Release 2.
Temas:
Nucleosynthesis.
Nuclear astrophysics.
Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Essentials. 1. Basic properties of stars and the stellar plasma
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Blackbody radiation and luminosity
  • 1.3. Abundances and mass fractions
  • 1.4. Further thermodynamic relations
  • 1.5. Equations-of-state for stellar plasmas
  • 1.6. Basics of scattering
  • 1.7. Spin, parity, and selection rules in quantum mechanics
  • 2. Stellar models
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Hydrostatic equations of stellar structure
  • 2.3. Barotropic and polytropic EOS
  • 2.4. Lane-Emden equations
  • 2.5. Properties of white dwarfs
  • 2.6. Mixture of gas and radiation in hydrostatic equilibrium
  • 2.7. Energy transport in stars
  • 2.8. Convective and diffusive matter transport
  • 2.9. Complete equations for the hydrostatic model
  • 3. Nuclear physics for astrophysics
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Nuclear radii and masses
  • 3.3. The independent-particle model and the nuclear shell model
  • 3.4. Excited states and the nuclear level density
  • 3.5. Introduction to nuclear scattering
  • 3.6. Reaction cross sections
  • 3.7. Introduction to reaction theory
  • 3.8. Barrier penetration: [alpha]-decay and nuclear fission
  • 3.9. B-decay and electron capture
  • 4. Abundance changes in astrophysical plasmas
  • 4.1. Astrophysical reaction rates
  • 4.2. Nuclear reaction networks
  • 4.3. Simplification of reaction networks due to equilibria
  • part II. Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. 5. Introduction
  • 6. Stellar evolution
  • 7. Hydrostatic burning phases
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Hydrogen burning
  • 7.3. Helium burning
  • 7.4. Carbon burning
  • 7.5. Neon burning
  • 7.6. Oxygen burning
  • 7.7. Silicon burning
  • 8. Origin of the elements beyond Fe
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. The s-process
  • 8.3. The r-process
  • 8.4. The p-nuclides
  • 8.5. The i-process
  • 9. Explosive nucleosynthesis
  • 9.1. General considerations
  • 9.2. Classification of high-energy phenomena
  • 9.3. Core-collapse supernovae
  • 9.4. Explosive burning in binary systems
  • 10. Primordial nucleosynthesis
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Measured primordial abundances
  • 10.3. The early universe
  • 10.4. Standard big bang nucleosynthesis (SBBN)
  • 11. Galactic origin of the elements
  • 11.1. Production sites
  • 11.2. Galactic chemical evolution models
  • 11.3. Nucleocosmochronology.

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