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The Explosive Burning of Oxygen and Silicon
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The paper analyzes the explosive burning of oxygen and silicon, emphasizing nuclear details of fuel combustion and resulting nucleosynthesis. The study aims to characterize supernova explosions by mapping nucleosynthesis to an e‑folding density‑reduction timescale and initial conditions. The authors model explosions using an e‑folding time for density reduction to relate nucleosynthesis to initial temperature, density, and composition. The results enable future inference of explosive burning outcomes without laborious abundance integration. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, November 1973, DOI 10.1086/190282.
view Abstract Citations (369) References (38) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS The Explosive Burning of Oxygen and Silicon Woosley, S. E. ; Arnett, W. David ; Clayton, Donald D. Abstract This paper analyzes the explosive burning of oxygen and silicon. Major emphasis is on nuclear details of how the fuel burns and of the nucleosynthesis that results from the burning. By characterizing the explosions in terms of an e-folding time for the reduction of the density we are able to map the nature of the nucleosynthesis in terms of that time scale and the initial temperature, density, and chemical composition. These results make it possible in the future to infer rather well the results of explosive burning without carrying out the laborious integrations of the differential equations for the abundances, as we have done in this paper. The major and minor sections of the paper are as follows: Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Pub Date: November 1973 DOI: 10.1086/190282 Bibcode: 1973ApJS...26..231W full text sources ADS |