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astro-ph.HE2026
Effects of Competing Reactions on and on Abundance Distributions in Type I X-Ray Bursts
Yinwen Guan, Ertao Li, Zhihong Li +9
The composition of X-ray burst ashes affects the thermal transport properties of the neutron star crust, as well as heating and cooling through weak interaction processes. Reaction…
astro-ph.HE2025
Impact of Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties on Type I X-ray Burst Nucleosynthesis: A Monte Carlo Study
Qing Wang, Ertao Li, Zhihong Li +10
Type I X-ray bursts are thermonuclear flashes on the surface of accreting neutron stars, involving hundreds of nuclei and thousands of reactions with larger uncertainties in reacti…