Prospects in Classical Nova Modeling and Nucleosynthesis

Abstract

Classical novae are fascinating stellar events, at the crossroads of astrophysics, nuclear physics and cosmochemistry. In this review, we outline the history of nova modeling with special emphasis on recent advances and perspectives in multidimensional simulations. Among the topics that are covered, we analyze the interplay between nova outbursts and the Galactic chemical abundances, the synthesis of radioactive nuclei of interest for gamma-ray astronomy, such as 7Li, 22Na or 26Al, and the recent discovery of presolar meteoritic grains, likely condensed in nova shells.

Invited review presented at the "Nuclei in the Cosmos VIII", Vancouver, july 19-23, 2004

References in corpus (8)

• Presolar Grains from Novae
• The Imprint of Nova Nucleosynthesis in Presolar Grains
• The 21Na(p,gamma)22Mg Reaction and Oxygen-Neon Novae
• The Evolution of Nova V382 Vel 1999
• On the C/O Enrichment of Novae Ejecta
• The Early Ultraviolet Evolution of the ONeMg Nova V382 Velorum 1999
• On Heavy Element Enrichment in Classical Novae
• Reevaluation of the ${}^{22}$Na(p,$\gamma$) reaction rate: Implications for the detection of ${}^{22}$Na gamma rays from novae

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