[Mesa-users] Using make_o_ne_wd to prepare some white dwarf models

Francis Timmes fxt44 at mac.com
Mon Jul 23 09:43:10 EDT 2018


hi zach,

> Tumino et al. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0149-4)
> Their Figure 3 shows more than two orders of magnitude enhancement 
> relative to the CF88 rate at some places in the thermonuclear regime.

take a peek at the cold water in https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05921v1 .
in summary: can't use plane waves, poor data selection, bad quantum mechanics.
look like another spectacular nature paper bites the dust.

fxt




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