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

[Francis Timmes]

awesome.

then there is an recent alternative 12c+12c measurement
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018PhRvC..97a2801J/abstract
which finds a reduction in the rate!

fxt



> On Jul 23, 2018, at 6:45 AM, Meisel, Zach <meisel at ohio.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Frank. Indeed, I’m aware of the comments. They have quite a heated exchange going on via the arXiv:https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06148
>  
> I’m happily just a bystander ;)
>  
> -Zach
>  
> From: Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 9:43:10 AM
> To: Meisel, Zach
> Cc: Frank Timmes; mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org
> Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] Using make_o_ne_wd to prepare some white dwarf models
>  
> 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