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H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clarkson, O., Herwig, F., Andrassy, R., Woodward, P., Pignatari, M., & Mao, H. H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars. Presented at Nuclei in the Cosmos XV, Assergi, Italy

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. We report on our ongoing investigation into the nucleosynthetic and hydrodynamic nature of mixing at the interface between the H- and He-convection zones in massive Pop III stars. Studying recent a grid of 26 1... Read More about H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars.

The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations (2019)
Journal Article
Denissenkov, P. A., Herwig, F., Woodward, P., Andrassy, R., Pignatari, M., & Jones, S. (2019). The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(3), 4258-4270. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1921

© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society We have modelled the multicycle evolution of rapidly accreting CO white dwarfs (RAWDs) with stable H burning intermittent with strong He-shell flash... Read More about The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations.

Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes (2019)
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Côté, B., Lugaro, M., Reifarth, R., Pignatari, M., Világos, B., Yagüe, A., & Gibson, B. K. (2019). Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes. The Astrophysical journal, 878(2), Article 156. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab21d1

The presence of short-lived (∼ Myr) radioactive isotopes in meteoritic inclusions at the time of their formation represents a unique opportunity to study the circumstances that led to the formation of the Solar System. To interpret these observations... Read More about Galactic chemical evolution of radioactive isotopes.

Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production (2019)
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Wehmeyer, B., Wehmeyer, B., Fröhlich, C., Fröhlich, C., Côté, B., Côté, B., Pignatari, M., Pignatari, M., Thielemann, F.-K., & Thielemann, F. K. (2019). Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(2), 1745-1753. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1310

Rapid neutron capture process (r-process) elements have been detected in a large fraction of metal-poor halo stars, with abundances relative to iron (Fe) that vary by over two orders of magnitude. This scatter is reduced to less than a factor of 3 in... Read More about Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production.

Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way (2019)
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Côté, B., Eichler, M., Arcones, A., Hansen, C. J., Simonetti, P., Frebel, A., Fryer, C. L., Pignatari, M., Reichert, M., Belczynski, K., & Matteucci, F. (2019). Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way. The Astrophysical journal, 875(2), 106. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab10db

Probing the origin of r-process elements in the universe represents a multidisciplinary challenge. We review the observational evidence that probes the properties of r-process sites, and address them using galactic chemical evolution simulations, bin... Read More about Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way.

Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr (2019)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Gorbaneva, T., Bisterzo, S., Travaglio, C., Thielemann, F. K., & Soubiran, C. (2019). Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 3846-3864. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz178

The enrichment history of heavy neutron-capture elements in the Milky Way disc provides fundamental information about the chemical evolution of our Galaxy and about the stellar sources that made those elements. In this work we give new observational... Read More about Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron capture elements: Sr.

Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes (2019)
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Keegans, J. D., Fryer, C. L., Jones, S. W., Côté, B., Belczynski, K., Herwig, F., Pignatari, M., Laird, A. M., & Diget, C. A. (2019). Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(1), 620-639. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz368

© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Massive-star binaries can undergo a phase where one of the two stars expands during its advanced evolutionary stage as a giant and envelops its com... Read More about Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes.

Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru (2019)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Gorbaneva, T., Travaglio, C., Côté, B., Thielemann, F.-K., & Soubiran, C. (2019). Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 1697-1708. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2202

© 2019 The Author(s). We present new observational data for the heavy elements molybdenum (Mo, Z = 42) and ruthenium (Ru, Z = 44) in F-, G-, and K-stars belonging to different substructures of the Milky Way. The range of metallicity covered is -1.0 <... Read More about Enrichment of the Galactic disc with neutron-capture elements: Mo and Ru.

Remnants and ejecta of thermonuclear electron-capture supernovae: Constraining oxygen-neon deflagrations in high-density white dwarfs (2018)
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Jones, S., Röpke, F. K., Fryer, C., Ruiter, A. J., Seitenzahl, I. R., Nittler, L. R., Ohlmann, S. T., Reifarth, R., Pignatari, M., & Belczynski, K. (2019). Remnants and ejecta of thermonuclear electron-capture supernovae: Constraining oxygen-neon deflagrations in high-density white dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 622, Article A74. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834381

The explosion mechanism of electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) remains equivocal: it is not completely clear whether these events are implosions in which neutron stars are formed, or incomplete thermonuclear explosions that leave behind bound ONeFe w... Read More about Remnants and ejecta of thermonuclear electron-capture supernovae: Constraining oxygen-neon deflagrations in high-density white dwarfs.

The s process in AGB stars as constrained by a large sample of barium stars (2018)
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Cseh, B., Lugaro, M., D'Orazi, V., de Castro, D. B., Pereira, C. B., Karakas, A. I., Molnár, L., Plachy, E., Szabó, R., Pignatari, M., & Cristallo, S. (2018). The s process in AGB stars as constrained by a large sample of barium stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834079

© ESO 2018. Context. Barium (Ba) stars are dwarf and giant stars enriched in elements heavier than iron produced by the slow neutron-capture process (s process). These stars belong to binary systems in which the primary star evolved through the asymp... Read More about The s process in AGB stars as constrained by a large sample of barium stars.

Corrigendum to “Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae” [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 221 (2018) 127–144] (2018)
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Kodolányi, J., Stephan, T., Trappitsch, R., Hoppe, P., Pignatari, M., Davis, A. M., & Pellin, M. J. (2018). Corrigendum to “Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae” [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 221 (2018) 127–144]. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 239, 481-482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.07.042

NuGrid stellar data set – II. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stellar models with MZAMS = 1–25 M⊙ and Z = 0.0001–0.02 (2018)
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Ritter, C., Herwig, F., Jones, S., Pignatari, M., Fryer, C., & Hirschi, R. (2018). NuGrid stellar data set – II. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stellar models with MZAMS = 1–25 M⊙ and Z = 0.0001–0.02. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(1), 538-571. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1729

We provide here a significant extension of the NuGrid Set 1 models in mass coverage and towards lower metallicity, adopting the same physics assumptions. The combined data set now includes the initial masses
MZAMS/M⊙

= 1, 1.65, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,... Read More about NuGrid stellar data set – II. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stellar models with MZAMS = 1–25 M⊙ and Z = 0.0001–0.02.

The impact of (n, γ) reaction rate uncertainties of unstable isotopes near N = 50 on the i-process nucleosynthesis in He-shell flash white dwarfs (2018)
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Denissenkov, P., Perdikakis, G., Herwig, F., Schatz, H., Ritter, C., Pignatari, M., Jones, S., Nikas, S., & Spyrou, A. (2018). The impact of (n, γ) reaction rate uncertainties of unstable isotopes near N = 50 on the i-process nucleosynthesis in He-shell flash white dwarfs. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 45(5), 055203. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/aabb6e

The first-peak s-process elements Rb, Sr, Y and Zr in the post-AGB star Sakurai's object (V4334 Sagittarii) have been proposed to be the result of i-process nucleosynthesis in a post-AGB very-late thermal pulse event. We estimate the nuclear physics... Read More about The impact of (n, γ) reaction rate uncertainties of unstable isotopes near N = 50 on the i-process nucleosynthesis in He-shell flash white dwarfs.

i-process contribution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs to the solar composition of first-peak neutron-capture elements (2018)
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Côté, B., Denissenkov, P., Herwig, F., Ruiter, A. J., Ritter, C., Pignatari, M., & Belczynski, K. (2018). i-process contribution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs to the solar composition of first-peak neutron-capture elements. The Astrophysical journal, 854(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaaae8

Rapidly accreting white dwarfs (RAWDs) have been proposed as contributors to the chemical evolution of heavy elements in the Galaxy. Here, we test this scenario for the first time and determine the contribution of RAWDs to the solar composition of fi... Read More about i-process contribution of rapidly accreting white dwarfs to the solar composition of first-peak neutron-capture elements.

Role of core-collapse supernovae in explaining Solar System abundances of p nuclides (2018)
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Travaglio, C., Rauscher, T., Heger, A., Pignatari, M., & West, C. (2018). Role of core-collapse supernovae in explaining Solar System abundances of p nuclides. The Astrophysical journal, 854(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa4f7

The production of the heavy stable proton-rich isotopes between 74Se and 196Hg—the p nuclides—is due to the contribution from different nucleosynthesis processes, activated in different types of stars. Whereas these processes have been subject to var... Read More about Role of core-collapse supernovae in explaining Solar System abundances of p nuclides.

Determination of alpha spectroscopic factors for unbound 17O states (2017)
Journal Article
De Séréville, N., Meyer, A., Hammache, F., Laird, A. M., & Pignatari, M. (2017). Determination of alpha spectroscopic factors for unbound 17O states. EPJ Web of Conferences, 165, 01022. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501022

© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017. It has been recently suggested that hydrogen ingestion into the helium shell of massive stars could lead to high 13 C and 15 N excesses when the blast of a core collapse supernova (ccSN) passes through... Read More about Determination of alpha spectroscopic factors for unbound 17O states.

Pop III i-process nucleosynthesis and the elemental abundances of SMSS J0313-6708 and the most iron-poor stars (2017)
Journal Article
Clarkson, O., Herwig, F., & Pignatari, M. (2018). Pop III i-process nucleosynthesis and the elemental abundances of SMSS J0313-6708 and the most iron-poor stars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 474(1), L37-L41. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx190

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We have investigated a highly energetic H-ingestion event during shell He burning leading to H-burning luminosities of log (L H /L ⊙ ) ~ 13 in a 4... Read More about Pop III i-process nucleosynthesis and the elemental abundances of SMSS J0313-6708 and the most iron-poor stars.

The C12(α,γ)O16 reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning (2017)
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reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning. Reviews of Modern Physics, 89(3), Article ARTN 035007. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.89.035007

The creation of carbon and oxygen in our Universe is one of the forefront questions in nuclear astrophysics. The determination of the abundance of these elements is key to our understanding of both the formation of life on Earth and to the life cycle... Read More about The C12(α,γ)O16 reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning.

Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry (2017)
Journal Article
Wallner, A., Buczak, K., Belgya, T., Bichler, M., Coquard, L., Dillmann, I., Golser, R., Käppeler, F., Karakas, A., Kutschera, W., Lederer, C., Mengoni, A., Priller, A., Reifarth, R., Steier, P., Szentmiklosi, L., Kaeppeler, F., & Pignatari, M. (2017). Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry. Physical Review C, 96(2), Article ARTN 025808. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.025808

© 2017 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the a... Read More about Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry.

Convective–reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O–C shell mergers (2017)
Journal Article
Ritter, C., Andrassy, R., Côté, B., Herwig, F., Woodward, P. R., Pignatari, M., & Jones, S. (2018). Convective–reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O–C shell mergers. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 474(1), L1-L6. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx126

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We address the deficiency of odd-Z elements P, Cl, K and Sc in Galactic chemical evolution models through an investigation of the nucleosynthesis... Read More about Convective–reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O–C shell mergers.