Browsing by Author "Bildsten, L."

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    • End point of the rp process on accreting neutron stars 

      Schatz, H.; Aprahamian, A.; Bildsten, L.; Cumming, A.; Ouellette, M.; Rauscher, T.; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Wiescher, M. (2001-04-16)
      We calculate the rapid proton (rp) capture process of hydrogen burning on the surface of an accreting neutron star with an updated reaction network that extends up to Xe, far beyond previous work. In both steady-state ...

    • The endpoint of the rp-process on accreting neutron stars 

      Schatz, H.; Aprahamian, A.; Bildsten, L.; Cumming, A.; Ouellette, M.; Rauscher, T.; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Wiescher, M. (2001-05-21)
      We find that the rp process in X-ray bursts and in steady state burning, for example in X-ray pulsars, ends in a SnSbTe cycle. We discuss the consequences for the neutron star crust composition an X-ray burst light curves.

    • Explosive H-burning, the rp-process, and X-ray bursts 

      Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Schatz, H.; Rauscher, T.; Rembges, J.F.; Gorres, J.; Wiescher, Michael; Bildsten, L. (IOP Publishing Ltd., 1998)
      The major astrophysical events which involve explosive H-burning are novae and type I X-ray bursts. Both are related to binary stellar systems with hydrogen accretion from a binary companion onto a compact object, and the ...

    • Nucleosynthesis at the proton drip line - a challenge for nuclear physics 

      Schatz, H.; Bildsten, L.; Gorres, J.; Rauscher, T.; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Wiescher, Michael (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 1998)
      The rp-process in X-ray bursts is investigated using a complete and updated nuclear reaction network from H to Sr, that is coupled to a one dimensional, one zone X-ray burst model. In particular we consider 2p-capture ...