On the production and survival of carbon fuel for superbursts on accreting neutron stars: Implications for mass donor evolution

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 642, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 443-454

  Cooper, Randall L ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata ^a   Steeghs, Danny ^a   Narayan, Ramesh ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense matter; Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; Stars: neutron; X rays: binaries; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745301731     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500922     Document Type: Article

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