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5 - Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2010

J. Isern
Affiliation:
Centre d'Estudis Avançats Blanes (CSIC), Camí de Santa Bàrbara sn, 17300 Blancs, Spain.
M. Hernanz
Affiliation:
Centre d'Estudis Avançats Blanes (CSIC), Camí de Santa Bàrbara sn, 17300 Blancs, Spain.
Gilles Chabrier
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Evry Schatzman
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, Meudon
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The rate of nuclear reactions depends on the influence of the surrounding particles that compose the plasma. At high densities the situation is far from being satisfactory and the influence of electron polarization has not been completely elucidated. In particular, it is shown that the possibility of an accretion induced collapse of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf instead of a supernova explosion completely depends on the screening factors and pycnonuclear rates that are adopted. Similarly, the possibility of detecting isolated neutron stars that accrete matter from the interstellar medium depends on the adopted pycnonuclear rates. Low rates allow the formation of a metastable layer that can release energy explosively and produce aγ-ray burst. Nevertheless, current rates seem to prevent such a situation.

Le taux des réactions nucléaires dépend de l'influence exercée par les particules voisines qui composent le plasma. A haute densité, la situation est loin d'être satisfaisante et l'influence de la polarization electronique n'est pas sufisamment claire. En particulier, on montre que la possibilité d'obtenir un collapse non explosif d'une naine blanche de carbone oxygène dépend des facteurs d'écrantage et des taux pycnonucléaires adoptés. Egalement, la possibilité de détecter des étoiles à neutrons isolées dépend des taux pycnonucléaires adoptés. Des petites valeurs favorisent la formation d'une couche metastable qui peut libérer de l'energie explosivement et produire une éruption gamma. Quand-même, les taux actuels semblent empêcher cette situation.

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The Equation of State in Astrophysics
IAU Colloquium 147
, pp. 106 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1994

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