Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from precision cosmology to fundamental physics

F Iocco, G Mangano, G Miele, O Pisanti, PD Serpico - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
We present an up-to-date review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). We discuss the main
improvements which have been achieved in the past two decades on the overall theoretical …

Giant star seismology

S Hekker, J Christensen-Dalsgaard - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2017 - Springer
The internal properties of stars in the red-giant phase undergo significant changes on
relatively short timescales. Long near-uninterrupted high-precision photometric timeseries …

Mesa isochrones and stellar tracks (MIST). I. Solar-scaled models

J Choi, A Dotter, C Conroy, M Cantiello… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This is the first of a series of papers presenting the Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA) Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project, a new comprehensive …

The Dawes review 2: nucleosynthesis and stellar yields of low-and intermediate-mass single stars

AI Karakas, JC Lattanzio - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
The chemical evolution of the Universe is governed by the chemical yields from stars, which
in turn are determined primarily by the initial stellar mass. Even stars as low as 0.9 M⊙ can …

The National Ignition Facility: Ushering in a new age for high energy density science

EI Moses, RN Boyd, BA Remington, CJ Keane… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI Moses, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 112, 012003 (2008);
https://lasers. llnl. gov/], completed in March 2009, is the highest energy laser ever …

Thermohaline instability and rotation-induced mixing-III. Grid of stellar models and asymptotic asteroseismic quantities from the pre-main sequence up to the AGB for …

N Lagarde, T Decressin, C Charbonnel… - Astronomy & …, 2012 - aanda.org
Context. The availability of asteroseismic constraints for a large sample of stars from the
missions CoRoT and Kepler paves the way for various statistical studies of the seismic …

Thermohaline instability and rotation-induced mixing-I. Low-and intermediate-mass solar metallicity stars up to the end of the AGB

C Charbonnel, N Lagarde - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 - aanda.org
Context. Numerous spectroscopic observations provide compelling evidence for non-
canonical processes that modify the surface abundances of low-and intermediate-mass …

Thermohaline mixing: a physical mechanism governing the photospheric composition of low-mass giants

C Charbonnel, JP Zahn - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2007 - aanda.org
Aims. Numerous spectroscopic observations provide compelling evidence for a non-
canonical mixing process that modifies the surface abundances of Li, C and N of low-mass …

The intermediate neutron capture process-I. Development of the i-process in low-metallicity low-mass AGB stars

A Choplin, L Siess, S Goriely - Astronomy & astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Results from observations report a growing number of metal-poor stars showing an
abundance pattern midway between the s-and r-processes. These so-called r/s-stars raise …

The s-process in low-metallicity stars – II. Interpretation of high-resolution spectroscopic observations with asymptotic giant branch models

S Bisterzo, R Gallino, O Straniero… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
High-resolution spectroscopic observations of 100 metal-poor carbon and s-rich stars
(CEMP-s) collected from the literature are compared with the theoretical nucleosynthesis …