Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars

Project Members

• Alexander Heger
• Stan Woosley
• Candace Church
• Rob Hoffman
• Clarisse Tur
• Sam Austin
• Weiqun Zhang
• Tommy Rauscher
• Matt Boyes

A new study of C12(a,g) and 3a reaction rates

Data Files

Below we provide preliminary data sets. Note that part of this data is not yet published in refereed journals and thus may be updated without notice.
We would appreciate if you contact us before using the data on this site for your publications.

Data files from Heger & Woosley rotating models (2009)

Data files from Rauscher, Heger, Hoffman, & Woosley (2002)

Data files from Woosley & Heger (2007)

More data files will become available on this site in the future.
Please contact us if your require additional data files or output quantities.

Publications

• Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars with Improved Nuclear and Stellar Physics
  by T. Rauscher, A. Heger, R. D. Hoffman, & S. E. Woosley (2002, ApJ, 576, 323; abstract; full text; astro-ph/0112478)
• Nucleosynthesis of Heavy Elements in Massive Stars
  by A. Heger, S. E. Woosley, K. Langanke, E. Kolbe, T. Rauscher, & R.D. Hoffman (2002, in proceedings of Nuclei in the Cosmos VII, in press)
• Nuclear Data Need for the Study of Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars
  by S. E. Woosley, A. Heger, T. Rauscher, & R.D. Hoffman (2002, in proceedings of Nuclei in the Cosmos VII, in press)
• Hydrostatic and Explosive Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars Using Improved Nuclear and Stellar Physics
  by T. Rauscher, A. Heger, R.D. Hoffman, & S. E. Woosley (2002, in proceedings of Nuclei in the Cosmos VII, in press)
• New Results on Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars; Nuclear Data Needs for Nucleosynthesis
  by R. D. Hoffman, T. Rauscher, A. Heger, & S. E. Woosley (2001, to appear in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Proc. International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan Oct. 7-12, 2001; LLNL reference: UCRL-JC-146202)
• Massive Star Evolution: Nucleosynthesis and Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties
  by A. Heger, S. E. Woosley, T. Rauscher, R. D. Hoffman, & M. M. Boyes (2001, accepted for publication in New Astronomy Reviews, eds. R. Diehl, D. Hartmann, P. Hoppe, N. Prantzos; astro-ph/0110015)
• Nuclear Aspects of the n- and s-Process in Massive Stars
  by T. Rauscher, A. Heger, S. E. Woosley, & R. D. Hoffman (2001, to appear in Proc. 9th Int. Seminar on Interactions of Neutrons with Nuclei (ISINN-9), Dubna, Russia, May 2001, astro-ph/0106289)
• Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars Using Extended Adaptive Nuclear Reaction Networks
  by A. Heger, T. Rauscher, R. D. Hoffman, & S. E. Woosley (2001, Tours Symposium on Nuclear Physics IV, eds. M. Arnould et al., AIP Conference Proceedings, 561, 3 - 12)
• Nucleosynthesis in stars revisited
  by T. Rauscher, A. Heger, R. D. Hoffman, & S. E. Woosley (2001, Nuclei in the Cosmos 2000, eds. K. Langanke and J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, Amsterdam: Elsevier; Nuclear Physics A, 688, p. 193c - 196c; astro-ph/0010021)
• Nuclear Aspects of Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars
  by T. Rauscher, A. Heger, R. D. Hoffman, & S. E. Woosley (2001, in Hadrons, Nuclei, and Applications, eds. G. C. Bonsignori, M. Bruno, A. Ventura, D. Vretenar, World Scientific, p. 277; nucl-th/0008065)
• Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars Including All Stable Isotopes
  by A. Heger, R. D. Hoffman, T. Rauscher, & S. E. Woosley (2000, in proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics, Ringberg Castle, eds. E. Müller and W. Hillebrandt, MPA Proceedings P12, Garching, p. 105, astro-ph/0006350)