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The consequences of nuclear electron capture in core collapse supernovae
W. R. Hix, O. E. B. Messer, A. Mezzacappa +5
The most important weak nuclear interaction to the dynamics of stellar core collapse is electron capture, primarily on nuclei with masses larger than 60. In prior simulations of co…
astro-ph2003
Electron capture rates on nuclei and implications for stellar core collapse
K. Langanke, G. Martinez-Pinedo, J. M. Sampaio +7
Supernova simulations to date have assumed that during core collapse electron captures occur dominantly on free protons, while captures on heavy nuclei are Pauli-blocked and are ig…