AMReX-Astro / Microphysics

common astrophysical microphysics routines with interfaces for the different AMReX codes
https://amrex-astro.github.io/Microphysics
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add a simpler version of neutrino cooling #1332

Open zingale opened 1 year ago

zingale commented 1 year ago

Kippenhahn & Weigert have very simple expressions for the neutrino terms (Eqs. 18.81 to 18.86). It would be good to add a simpler neutrino routine with those. What we are using might be more than is needed.

zingale commented 1 year ago

It looks like Haft, Raffelt, and Weiss 1994 give a fit for plasma neutrinos that they claim is accurate: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1994ApJ...425..222H

it is equations 23 and following