Origin of the Chemical Elements
arXiv:1011.5627 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0720-2_12
Abstract
This review provides the necessary background from astrophysics, nuclear, and particle physics to understand the cosmic origin of the chemical elements. It reflects the year 2009 state of the art in this extremely quickly developing interdisciplinary research direction. The discussion summarizes the nucleosynthetic processes in the course of the evolution of the Universe and the galaxies contained within, including primordial nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution, and explosive nucleosynthesis in single and binary systems.
65 pages, 11 figures; This will be Chapter 1 in Volume 2 of "Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, Second Edition" (Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-0721-9); the chapter was submitted to Springer in November 2009; scheduled to appear January 2011 (v2: fixed section numbering, added TOC)
References in corpus (72)
- Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae
- Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
- The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
- Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation of State
- A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter
- Collapsars - Gamma-Ray Bursts and Explosions in "Failed Supernovae"
- A Dynamical Solution to the Problem of a Small Cosmological Constant and Late-time Cosmic Acceleration
- New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy
- Measurements of the Cosmological Parameters Omega and Lambda from the First 7 Supernovae at z >= 0.35
- Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets
- The High-Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Cur vature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae
- Type Ia Supernova Explosion Models
- Gamma-Ray Bursts
- The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations
- Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars With Improved Nuclear and Stellar Physics
- Astrophysical Reaction Rates From Statistical Model Calculations
- Observational Constraints on the Nature of the Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
- Theory of Core-Collapse Supernovae
- Solar Models: current epoch and time dependences, neutrinos, and helioseismological properties
- Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
- Measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale using the SDSS and 2dFGRS
- Nucleosynthesis and Remnants in Massive Stars of Solar Metallicity
- Recent Progress in Baryogenesis
- Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background using DASI
- Galactic Evolution of Sr, Y, Zr: A Multiplicity of Nucleosynthetic Processes
- Neutrino-induced nucleosynthesis of A>64 nuclei: The nu p-process
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis in the Precision Cosmology Era
- Nucleosynthetic signatures of the first stars
- The endpoint of the rp process on accreting neutron stars
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis and physics beyond the Standard Model
- Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis Predictions for Precision Cosmology
- Lithium isotopic abundances in metal-poor halo stars
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Theory and Observations
- Nucleosynthesis and mixing on the Asymptotic Giant Branch. III. Predicted and observed s-process abundances
- Chemical yields from low- and intermediate-mass stars: model predictions and basic observational constraints
- Star formation through gravitational collapse and competitive accretion
- Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay
- Neutron star mergers versus core-collapse supernovae as dominant r-process sites in the early Galaxy
- Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Angular Power Spectra
- Big-bang Nucleosynthesis Enters the Precision Era
- A probable stellar solution to the cosmological lithium discrepancy
- Evidence of Multiple r-Process Sites in the Early Galaxy: New Observations of CS 22892-052
- Sharpening the predictions of big-bang nucleosynthesis
- The solar chemical composition
- Neutrino Nucleosynthesis
- The Baryogenesis Window in the MSSM
- Global Analysis of Solar Neutrino Oscillations Including SNO CC Measurement
- Nucleosynthesis in the Outflow from Gamma Ray Burst Accretion Disks
- Review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Primordial Abundances
- Constraints on the Progenitors of SNeIa & Implications for the Cosmological Equation of State
- Coalescing neutron stars - a step towards physical models III. Improved numerics and different neutron star masses and spins
- The Lithium Content of the Galactic Halo Stars
- Baryogenesis Below The Electroweak Scale
- Massive star formation via high accretion rates and early disk-driven outflows
- High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data VI. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectrograph Observations
- Silicon Burning II: Quasi-Equilibrium and Explosive Burning
- Stellar production rates of carbon and its abundance in the universe
- Alpha-induced cross sections of 106Cd for the astrophysical p-process
- Lithium-Beryllium-Boron : Origin and Evolution
- Element Synthesis in Stars
- On the C/O Enrichment of Novae Ejecta
- Coulomb suppression of the stellar enhancement factor
- Grids of stellar models. VIII. From 0.4 to 1.0 Msun at Z=0.020 and Z=0.001, with the MHD equation of state
- Simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis: Finite time quenches
- Sensitivity of the C and O production on the 3-alpha rate
- Cross section predictions for hydrostatic and explosive burning
- Electroweak-scale inflation, inflaton-Higgs mixing and the scalar spectral index
- Standard Solar Models
- Helioseismology, solar models and solar neutrinos
- Helioseismology and solar neutrinos: an update