Heating in the accreted neutron star ocean: Implications for superburst ignition

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 662, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 1188-1197

  Gupta, Sanjib ^a,b   Brown, Edward F ^a   Schatz, Hendrik ^a   Möller, Peter ^a,b   Kratz, Karl Ludwig ^a,c,d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d HGF VISTARS   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547323419     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517869     Document Type: Article

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