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most cited3D Convective Urca Process in a Simmering White Dwarf

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astro-ph.IM2026

pynucastro 3: A community library for nuclear astrophysics

Zhi Chen, Khanak Bhargava, Eric T. Johnson +8

We describe the latest release of pynucastro: a community python library for nuclear astrophysics. The goal of the pynucastro project is to build the tools needed to interactively…

astro-ph.SR2026

Simulating the Convective Urca Process with Multiple Urca Pairs in a Simmering White Dwarf

Brendan Boyd, Ferran Poca-Amorós, Alan Calder +1

Type Ia supernovae are bright thermonuclear explosions of one or more white dwarf stars. The exact origin and explosion mechanism for these supernovae is still poorly understood. I…

astro-ph.SR2026

On the Importance of the Convective Urca Process in 3D Simulations of a Simmering White Dwarf

Ferran Poca-Amorós, Brendan Boyd, Dean M. Townsley +1

Type Ia supernovae are bright thermonuclear explosions that are important to numerous areas of astronomy. However, the origins of these events are poorly understood. One proposed s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

3D Convective Urca Process in a Simmering White Dwarf

Brendan Boyd, Alan Calder, Dean Townsley +1

A proposed setting for thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae is a white dwarf that has gained mass from a companion to the point of carbon ignition in the core. In the early stages of…

astro-ph.IM2023

A Framework for Exploring Nuclear Physics Sensitivity in Numerical Simulations

Zhi Chen, Eric T. Johnson, Max Katz +3

We describe the AMReX-Astrophysics framework for exploring the sensitivity of astrophysical simulations to the details of a nuclear reaction network, including the number of nuclei…

nucl-th2023

pynucastro 2.1: an update on the development of a python library for nuclear astrophysics

Alexander Smith Clark, Eric T. Johnson, Zhi Chen +5

pynucastro is a python library that provides visualization and analyze techniques to classify, construct, and evaluate nuclear reaction rates and networks. It provides tools that a…

astro-ph.SR2023

Sensitivity of 3D Convective Urca Simulations to Changes in Urca Reactions

Brendan Boyd, Alexander Smith Clark, Alan C. Calder +2

A proposed setting for thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae is a white dwarf that has gained mass from a companion to the point of carbon ignition in the core. There is a simmering p…