Monpribat, E., Martinet, S., Courtin, S. et al. (10 more authors) (2022) A new 12C + 12C nuclear reaction rate:Impact on stellar evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics. A47. ISSN 0004-6361
Abstract
Context. By changing the internal composition of stars, nuclear reactions play a key role in their evolution and spur their contribution to the chemical evolution of galaxies. The STELLA collaboration recently carried out new direct measurements of the 12C + 12C fusion cross section one of the key reactions occurring in C-burning regions in massive stars. Using a coincidence technique, accurate measurements were obtained for many different energies, with the lowest energy explored according to the Gamow window for massive stars. Aims. This work presents new 12C + 12C reaction rates in the form of numerical tables with associated uncertainty estimations, as well as analytical formulae that can be directly implemented into stellar evolution codes. We also describe the impact of these new rates on C-burning in stars. Methods. We determined reaction rates for two cross section extrapolation models: one based on the fusion-hindrance phenomenon and the other on fusion-hindrance plus a resonance. We then compared our results to prior data. Using the GENEC stellar evolution code, we study how these new rates impact the C-burning phases in two sets of stellar models for stars with 12M and 25M initial masses, which were chosen to be highly representative of the diversity of massive stars. Results. The effective temperatures of C-burning in both sets of stellar models are entirely covered by the sensitivity of the present experimental data and no extrapolation of the rates is required. Although the rates may differ by more than an order of magnitude for temperatures typical of C-burning, the impacts on the stellar structures during that phase remain modest. This is a consequence of the readjustment of the stellar structure to a change of nuclear reaction rate for reactions that are shown to be important for energy production. For the hindrance case, the C-burning phase is found to occur at central temperatures that are 10% higher than with the hindrance plus resonance rate. Its C-burning lifetime is reduced by a factor of two. This model, nevertheless, loses more entropy than the other one; thus, it enters into the degeneracy regime earlier, which will impact the last stages of the evolution at the pre-core collapse time. The hindrance model produces up to 60% more neon. The impact of the different rates on the s-process occurring during the C-burning phase is modest, affecting the final abundances of s-processed elements by at most 20% (cobalt).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: Acknowledgements. J.N. acknowledges support from the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute QMat, as part of the ITI 2021 2028 program of the University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, which was supported by IdEx Unistra (ANR 10 IDEX 0002), and by SFRI STRAT’US project (ANR 20 SFRI 0012) and EUR QMAT ANR-17-EURE-0024 under the framework of the French Investments for the Future Program. S.M., G.M., and S.E. acknowledge the STAREX grant from the ERC Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 833925), and the COST Action ChETEC (CA 16117) supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). This work was supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS under Grant No IISN 4.4502.19. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 EDP Sciences. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | Abundances,Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis,Stars: evolution,Stars: massive |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2022 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 18:02 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141858 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1051/0004-6361/202141858 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187718 |