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Stellar nucleosynthesis is an important nuclear physics phenomenon that is responsible for presently observed chemical elements and isotope abundances. It is also one of the corner stone hypotheses that provides basis for our understanding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-09 Boris Pritychenko

In this brief summary I describe our recent work on superfluid neutron star dynamics. I review results on shear viscosity, hyperon bulk viscosity, vortex mediated mutual friction and the modelling of multifluid systems in general. For each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Andersson

We add an ensemble of nuclei to the equation of state for homogeneous nucleonic matter to generate a new set of models suitable for astrophysical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. We implement empirical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-16 Xingfu Du , Andrew W. Steiner , Jeremy W. Holt

The merger of two neutron stars has been proposed as a source of gamma-ray bursts, r-process elements, and detectable gravitational waves. Extracting information from observations of these phenomena requires fully relativistic simulations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Landry , Saul A. Teukolsky

The current picture of the collapse and explosion of massive stars and the formation of neutron stars is reviewed. According to the favored scenario, however by no means proven and undisputed, neutrinos deposit the energy of the explosion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 H. -Th. Janka , K. Kifonidis , M. Rampp

We review recent advances in the numerical modeling of turbulent flows and star formation. An overview of the most widely used simulation codes and their core capabilities is provided. We then examine methods for achieving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Christoph Federrath , Stella Offner

Violent nuclear collisions are open systems which require a non-equilibrium description when the process should be followed from the first instants. The heated system produced in the collision, can no more be treated within an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 Paolo Napolitani

We overview the progress of the tables of the equation of state for astrophysical simulations and the numerical methods of neutrino transfer. Hot and dense matter play essential roles in core-collapse supernovae and neutron stars. Equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

The very early stage of the coalescence of two nuclei is studied and used to estimate the nuclear viscosity. The time evolution of the neck region has been simulated by the unified Langevin equation method, which is used in the analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-04 S. Amano , Y. Aritomo , M. Ohta

We study viscosity of the neutron star matter and $r$-mode instability in rotating neutron stars. Contributions to the shear and bulk viscosities from various processes are calculated with account of in-medium modifications of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 E. E. Kolomeitsev , D. N. Voskresensky

To study binary neutron star systems and to interpret observational data such as gravitational-wave and kilonova signals, one needs an accurate description of the processes that take place during the final stages of the coalescence, e.g.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-12 Henrique Gieg , Federico Schianchi , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic

In this contribution, we briefly present the equation-of-state modelling for application to neutron stars and discuss current constraints coming from nuclear physics theory and experiments. To assess the impact of model uncertainties, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

Numerical simulations of neutron star--neutron star and neutron star--black hole binaries play an important role in our ability to model gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals powered by these systems. These simulations have to take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-17 Francois Foucart

A new approach that is a combination of classical thermodynamics and macroscopic kinetics is offered for studying the nucleation kinetics in condensed binary solutions. The theory covers the separation of liquid and solid solutions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Nikolay V. Alekseechkin

We calculated bulk viscosity due to non-equilibrium weak processes in superfluid nucleon-hyperon matter of neutron stars. For that, the dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics, formulated in paper [1] for superfluid mixtures, was extended to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. E. Gusakov , E. M. Kantor

The equation of state of dense matter determines the structure of neutron stars, their typical radii, and maximum masses. Recent improvements in theoretical modeling of nuclear forces from the low-energy effective field theory of QCD has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Jeremy W. Holt , Yeunhwan Lim

This chapter will go through the important nuclear reactions in stellar evolution and explosions, passing through the individual stellar burning stages and also explosive burning conditions. To follow the changes in the composition of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Friedrich-Karl Thielemann , Thomas Rauscher

Modern hydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers require knowledge not only of the equilibrium properties of strongly interacting matter, but also of the system's response to perturbations, encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Jesús Cruz Rojas , Tyler Gorda , Carlos Hoyos , Niko Jokela , Matti Järvinen , Aleksi Kurkela , Risto Paatelainen , Saga Säppi , Aleksi Vuorinen

Studies attempting to quantify the sensitivity of the $r$-process abundances to nuclear input have to cope with the fact that the theoretical models they rely on, rarely come with confidence intervals. This problem has been dealt with by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Francesco Pogliano , Ann-Cecilie Larsen

A method for integrating the chemical equations associated with nuclear combustion at high temperature is presented and extensively checked. Following the idea of E. M\"uller, the feedback between nuclear rates and temperature was taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ruben M. Cabezon Gomez , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Eduardo Bravo