PRODUCTION OF {sup 26}Al, {sup 44}Ti, AND {sup 60}Fe IN CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE: SENSITIVITY TO THE RATES OF THE TRIPLE ALPHA AND {sup 12}C({alpha}, {gamma}){sup 16}O REACTIONS

Journal Article · Tue Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/718/1/357· OSTI ID:21455142

Tur, Clarisse; Austin, Sam M ^[1]; Heger, Alexander ^[2]

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1. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, 1 Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 (United States)
2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0149 (United States)

We have studied the sensitivity to variations in the triple alpha and {sup 12}C({alpha}, {gamma}){sup 16}O reaction rates of the production of {sup 26}Al, {sup 44}Ti, and {sup 60}Fe in core-collapse supernovae (SNe). We used the KEPLER code to model the evolution of 15 M {sub sun}, 20 M {sub sun}, and 25 M {sub sun} stars to the onset of core collapse and simulated the ensuing SN explosion using a piston model for the explosion and an explosion energy of 1.2 x 10{sup 51} erg. Calculations were performed for the Anders and Grevesse and Lodders abundances. Over a range of twice the experimental uncertainty, {sigma}, for each helium-burning rate, the production of {sup 26}Al, {sup 60}Fe, and their ratio vary by factors of 5 or more. For some species, similar variations were observed for much smaller rate changes, 0.5{sigma} or less. The production of {sup 44}Ti was less sensitive to changes in the helium-burning rates. Production of all three isotopes depended on the solar abundance set used for the initial stellar composition.

• OSTI ID: 21455142
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 718, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/718/1/357; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALPHA REACTIONS
ALUMINIUM 26
CARBON 12
CARBON 12 TARGET
EXPLOSIONS
GAMMA RADIATION
HELIUM BURNING
IRON 60
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
OXYGEN 16
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STAR EVOLUTION
SUPERNOVAE
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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BINARY STARS
CARBON ISOTOPES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVOLUTION
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
IONIZING RADIATIONS
IRON ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
KINETICS
LIGHT NUCLEI
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
OXYGEN ISOTOPES
RADIATIONS
RADIOISOTOPES
SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
STABLE ISOTOPES
STAR BURNING
STARS
SYNTHESIS
TARGETS
TITANIUM ISOTOPES
VARIABLE STARS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES