Precision big bang nucleosynthesis with improved Helium-4 predictions

C Pitrou, A Coc, JP Uzan, E Vangioni - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Primordial nucleosynthesis is one of the three historical evidences for the big bang model,
together with the expansion of the universe and the cosmic microwave background. There is …

The thermonuclear runaway and the classical nova outburst

S Starrfield, C Iliadis, WR Hix - … of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nova explosions occur on the white dwarf component of a cataclysmic variable binary stellar
system that is accreting matter lost by its companion. When sufficient material has been …

Mind the gap: the location of the lower edge of the pair-instability supernova black hole mass gap

R Farmer, M Renzo, SE de Mink… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Detections of gravitational waves are now starting to probe the mass distribution of stellar
mass black holes (BHs). Robust predictions from stellar models are needed to interpret …

Constraints from gravitational-wave detections of binary black hole mergers on the 12C (α, γ) 16O rate

R Farmer, M Renzo, SE de Mink… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational-wave detections are starting to allow us to probe the physical processes in the
evolution of very massive stars through the imprints they leave on their final remnants …

NACRE II: an update of the NACRE compilation of charged-particle-induced thermonuclear reaction rates for nuclei with mass number A< 16

Y Xu, K Takahashi, S Goriely, M Arnould, M Ohta… - Nuclear Physics A, 2013 - Elsevier
An update of the NACRE compilation [3] is presented. This new compilation, referred to as
NACRE II, reports thermonuclear reaction rates for 34 charged-particle induced, two-body …

Standard big bang nucleosynthesis up to CNO with an improved extended nuclear network

A Coc, S Goriely, Y Xu, M Saimpert… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three strong pieces of evidence
for the big bang model together with the expansion of the universe and cosmic microwave …

[HTML][HTML] PRyMordial: the first three minutes, within and beyond the standard model

AK Burns, TMP Tait, M Valli - The European Physical Journal C, 2024 - Springer
In this work we present PRyMordial: A package dedicated to efficient computations of
observables in the Early Universe with the focus on the cosmological era of Big Bang …

Primordial nucleosynthesis

A Coc - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Primordial nucleosynthesis, or Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), is one of the three
evidences for the Big-Bang model, together with the expansion of the Universe and the …

STARLIB: a next-generation reaction-rate library for nuclear astrophysics

AL Sallaska, C Iliadis, AE Champange… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT STARLIB is a next-generation, all-purpose nuclear reaction-rate library. For the
first time, this library provides the rate probability density at all temperature grid points for …

Standard big bang nucleosynthesis and primordial CNO abundances after Planck

A Coc, JP Uzan, E Vangioni - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three historical strong evidences
for the big bang model. The recent results by the Planck satellite mission have slightly …