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TARDIS - Temperature And Radiative Diffusion In Supernovae
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Isotopes specified at what time in STELLA #1964

Closed wkerzendorf closed 2 years ago

matteocantiello commented 2 years ago

Isotopes are specified at the time of STELLA input (so at MESA handout). STELLA does not include a nuclear reaction network except for the radioactive decay chain initiated from 56Ni (basically heating by decays 56Ni → 56Co→ 56Fe, See Blinnikov & Sorokina 2004).

matteocantiello commented 2 years ago

Useful STELLA references: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2006/25/aa4594-05.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/305375/pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212530