Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: Supernovae with explosive hydrogen burning (2017)
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Liu, N., Nittler, L. R., Pignatari, M., Alexander, C. M. O., & Wang, J. (2017). Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: Supernovae with explosive hydrogen burning. The Astrophysical journal, 842(1), L1. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa74e5

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We report C, N, and Si isotopic data for 59 highly 13 C-enriched presolar submicron-to micron-sized SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite, including eight putative nova grains (PNGs)... Read More about Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: Supernovae with explosive hydrogen burning.

Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae (2017)
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Kodolányi, J., Stephan, T., Trappitsch, R., Hoppe, P., Pignatari, M., Davis, A. M., & Pellin, M. J. (2018). Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 221, 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.05.029

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. We report the carbon, silicon, iron, and nickel isotope compositions of twenty-five presolar SiC grains of mostly supernova (SN) origin. The iron and nickel isotope compositions were measured with the new Chicago Instrument for L... Read More about Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae.

Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions (2017)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Côté, B., Thielemann, F., Soubiran, C., Basak, N., …Herwig, F. (2017). Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 469(4), 4378-4399. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1145

© 2017 The Authors. Atmospheric parameters and chemical compositions for 10 stars with metallicities in the region of -2.2 < [Fe/H] < -0.6 were precisely determined using high-resolution, high signal-tonoise, spectra. For each star, the abundance... Read More about Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions.

A chemical signature from fast-rotating low-metallicity massive stars: ROA 276 in ω Centauri (2017)
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Yong, D., Norris, J. E., Da Costa, G. S., Stanford, L. M., Karakas, A. I., Shingles, L. J., …Pignatari, M. (2017). A chemical signature from fast-rotating low-metallicity massive stars: ROA 276 in ω Centauri. The Astrophysical journal, 837(2), 176. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6250

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present a chemical abundance analysis of a metal-poor star, ROA 276, in the stellar system ω Centauri. We confirm that this star has an unusually high [Sr/Ba] abundance ratio. Additio... Read More about A chemical signature from fast-rotating low-metallicity massive stars: ROA 276 in ω Centauri.

Neutron spectroscopy of 26 Mg states: Constraining the stellar neutron source 22 Ne( α , n ) 25 Mg (2017)
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Kivel, N., Karadimos, D., Käppeler, F., Kadi, Y., Krtička, M., Kopecky, S., …Schillebeeckx, P. (2017). Neutron spectroscopy of 26 Mg states: Constraining the stellar neutron source 22 Ne( α , n ) 25 Mg. Physics letters. B, 768, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.02.025

This work reports on accurate, high-resolution measurements of the 25 Mg(n,γ) 26 Mg and 25 Mg(n,tot) cross sections in the neutron energy range from thermal to about 300 keV, leading to a significantly improved 25 Mg(n,γ) 26 Mg parametrization. The r... Read More about Neutron spectroscopy of 26 Mg states: Constraining the stellar neutron source 22 Ne( α , n ) 25 Mg.

NanoSIMS isotope studies of rare types of presolar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison meteorite: Implications for supernova models and the role of 14C (2017)
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Hoppe, P., Pignatari, M., Kodolányi, J., Gröner, E., & Amari, S. (2018). NanoSIMS isotope studies of rare types of presolar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison meteorite: Implications for supernova models and the role of 14C. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 221, 182-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.051

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. We have conducted a NanoSIMS ion imaging survey of about 1800 presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains from the Murchison meteorite. A total of 21 supernova (SN) X grains, two SN C grains, and two putative nova grains were identifie... Read More about NanoSIMS isotope studies of rare types of presolar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison meteorite: Implications for supernova models and the role of 14C.

Stellar (n,γ) cross sections of ²³Na (2017)
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Uberseder, E., Heil, M., Käppeler, F., Lederer, C., Mengoni, A., Bisterzo, S., …Wiescher, M. (2017). Stellar (n,γ) cross sections of ²³Na. Physical Review C, 95(2), 025803. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025803

The cross section of the ²³Na(n,γ)²⁴Na reaction has been measured via the activation method at the Karlsruhe 3.7 MV Van de Graaff accelerator. NaCl samples were exposed to quasistellar neutron spectra at kT = 5.1 and 25 keV produced via the ¹⁸O(p,n)¹... Read More about Stellar (n,γ) cross sections of ²³Na.

i-process Nucleosynthesis and Mass Retention Efficiency in He-shell Flash Evolution of Rapidly Accreting White Dwarfs (2017)
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Denissenkov, P. A., Herwig, F., Battino, U., Ritter, C., Pignatari, M., Jones, S., & Paxton, B. (2017). i-process Nucleosynthesis and Mass Retention Efficiency in He-shell Flash Evolution of Rapidly Accreting White Dwarfs. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 834(2), L10. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/834/2/l10

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Based on stellar evolution simulations, we demonstrate that rapidly accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in close binary systems are an astrophysical site for the intermediate neutron-capture pr... Read More about i-process Nucleosynthesis and Mass Retention Efficiency in He-shell Flash Evolution of Rapidly Accreting White Dwarfs.

Stellar yields and abundances: new directions from planetary nebulae (2016)
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Lugaro, M., Karakas, A. I., Pignatari, M., & Doherty, C. L. (2016). Stellar yields and abundances: new directions from planetary nebulae. IAU symposium and colloquium proceedings series / International Astronomical Union. Symposium, 12(S323), 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921317001247

Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017. Planetary nebulae retain the signature of the nucleosynthesis and mixing events that occurred during the previous AGB phase. Observational signatures complement observations of AGB and post-AGB stars... Read More about Stellar yields and abundances: new directions from planetary nebulae.

Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars (2016)
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Chiappini, C., Freeman, K., Ness, M., Depagne, E., Cantelli, E., Hirschi, R., …Siqueira-Mello, C. (2016). Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 593, A79-1-A79-16. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628104

© 2016 ESO. Context. Efforts to look for signatures of the first stars have concentrated on metal-poor halo objects. However, the low end of the bulge metallicity distribution has been shown to host some of the oldest objects in the Milky Way and hen... Read More about Looking for imprints of the first stellar generations in metal-poor bulge field stars.

NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01 (2016)
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Pignatari, M., Herwig, F., Hirschi, R., Bennett, M., Rockefeller, G., Fryer, C., …Young, P. (2016). NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 225(2), Article ARTN 24. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/24

We provide a set of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis calculations that applies established physics assumptions simultaneously to low- and intermediate-mass and massive star models. Our goal is to provide an internally consistent and comprehensiv... Read More about NuGrid stellar data set. 1. Stellar yields from H to Bi for stars with metallicities Z=0.02 and Z=0.01.

Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process (2016)
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Mohr, P., Heinz, C., Pignatari, M., Dillmann, I., Mengoni, A., & Käppeler, F. (2016). Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process. The Astrophysical journal, 827(1), Article ARTN 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/29

The doubly magic nucleus ¹⁶O has a small neutron-capture cross section of just a few tens of microbarns in the astrophysical energy region. Despite this, ¹⁶O plays an important role as a neutron poison in the astrophysical slow neutron capture (s) pr... Read More about Re-evaluation of the ¹⁶O(n, γ)¹⁷O cross section at astrophysical energies and its role as a neutron poison in the s-process.

Application of a theory and simulation-based convective boundary mixing model for AGB star evolution and nucleosynthesis (2016)
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Battino, U., Pignatari, M., Ritter, C., Herwig, F., Denisenkov, P., Den Hartogh, J. W., …Paxton, B. (2016). Application of a theory and simulation-based convective boundary mixing model for AGB star evolution and nucleosynthesis. The Astrophysical journal, 827(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/30

The s-process nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars depends on the modeling of convective boundaries. We present models and s-process simulations that adopt a treatment of convective boundaries based on the results of hydrodynamic si... Read More about Application of a theory and simulation-based convective boundary mixing model for AGB star evolution and nucleosynthesis.

Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of r-process elements (2016)
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Wehmeyer, B., Pignatari, M., & Thielemann, F. (2016). Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of r-process elements. AIP conference proceedings, 1743, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953301

We report the results of a galactic chemical evolution (GCE) study for r-process- and alpha elements. For this work, we used the inhomogeneous GCE model "ICE", which allows to keep track of the galactic abundances of elements produced by different as... Read More about Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of r-process elements.

Uncertainties in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models (2016)
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Côté, B., Ritter, C., O’Shea, B. W., Herwig, F., Pignatari, M., Jones, S., & Fryer, C. L. (2016). Uncertainties in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models. The Astrophysical journal, 824(2), Article ARTN 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/824/2/82

We use a simple one-zone galactic chemical evolution model to quantify the uncertainties generated by the input parameters in numerical predictions for a galaxy with properties similar to those of the Milky Way. We compiled several studies from the l... Read More about Uncertainties in Galactic Chemical Evolution Models.

Stellar neutron capture cross sections of ⁴¹K and ⁴⁵Sc (2016)
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Heil, M., Plag, R., Uberseder, E., Bisterzo, S., Käppeler, F., Mengoni, A., & Pignatari, M. (2016). Stellar neutron capture cross sections of ⁴¹K and ⁴⁵Sc. Physical Review C, 93(5), 055807-1-055807-8. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.93.055807

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Probing astrophysically important states in the ²⁶Mg nucleus to study neutron sources for the s process (2016)
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Talwar, R., Adachi, T., Berg, G. P. A., Bin, L., Bisterzo, S., Couder, M., …Yosoi, M. (2016). Probing astrophysically important states in the ²⁶Mg nucleus to study neutron sources for the s process. Physical Review C, 93(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.93.055803

Background: The ²²Ne(α,n) ²⁵Mg reaction is the dominant neutron source for the slow neutron capture process (s process) in massive stars, and contributes, together with C¹³(α,n)O¹⁶, to the production of neutrons for the s process in asymptotic giant... Read More about Probing astrophysically important states in the ²⁶Mg nucleus to study neutron sources for the s process.

The production of proton-rich isotopes beyond iron: The γ-process in stars (2016)
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Pignatari, M., Göbel, K., Reifarth, R., & Travaglio, C. (2016). The production of proton-rich isotopes beyond iron: The γ-process in stars. International Journal of Modern Physics E, 25(4), Article 1630003. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301316300034

© 2016 World Scientific Publishing Company. Beyond iron, a small fraction of the total abundances in the Solar System is made of proton-rich isotopes, the p-nuclei. The clear understanding of their production is a fundamental challenge for nuclear as... Read More about The production of proton-rich isotopes beyond iron: The γ-process in stars.

The diverse origins of neutron-capture elements in the metal-poor star HD 94028 : possible detection of products of i-process nucleosynthesis (2016)
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Roederer, I. U., Karakas, A. I., Pignatari, M., & Herwig, F. (2016). The diverse origins of neutron-capture elements in the metal-poor star HD 94028 : possible detection of products of i-process nucleosynthesis. The Astrophysical journal, 821(1), Article ARTN 37. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/37

We present a detailed analysis of the composition and nucleosynthetic origins of the heavy elements in the metal-poor ([Fe/H] = −1.62 ± 0.09) star HD 94028. Previous studies revealed that this star is mildly enhanced in elements produced by the slow... Read More about The diverse origins of neutron-capture elements in the metal-poor star HD 94028 : possible detection of products of i-process nucleosynthesis.

STELLAR ORIGINS OF EXTREMELY C-13- AND N-15-ENRICHED PRESOLAR SIC GRAINS: NOVAE OR SUPERNOVAE? (2016)
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Liu, N., Nittler, L. R., Alexander, C. M. O., Wang, J., Pignatari, M., José, J., & Nguyen, A. (2016). STELLAR ORIGINS OF EXTREMELY C-13- AND N-15-ENRICHED PRESOLAR SIC GRAINS: NOVAE OR SUPERNOVAE?. The Astrophysical journal, 820(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/140

Extreme excesses of 13C (12C/13C < 10) and 15N (14N/15N < 20) in rare presolar SiC grains have been considered diagnostic of an origin in classical novae, though an origin in core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) has also been proposed. We report C, N, an... Read More about STELLAR ORIGINS OF EXTREMELY C-13- AND N-15-ENRICHED PRESOLAR SIC GRAINS: NOVAE OR SUPERNOVAE?.